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Servants by Instant Death Rate

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This list gives the best Servants for resisting Instant Death attacks.

Instant Death is a relatively obscure mechanic in FGO, and much maligned by Masters because how sporadically it triggers. Unfortunately now on the receiving end of one particular fight, it happens way more often than one expects.

How Instant Death Works

The way Instant Death works is every instant death NP or skill has an associated activation chance, which is multiplied by each Servant's base Instant Chance %.

For example, if Cu Chulainn attacks Francis Drake with 100% Overcharge Gae Bolg:

  • Gae Bolg at 100% Overcharge: 60% Death Chance
  • Francis Drake: 50% base Instant Death Chance
  • Instant Death will trigger 60% x 50% of the time, or 30% actual trigger rate.

Servants Most Resistant to Instant Death

  • For Masters that obtained The Mature Gentlemen CE, it can be equipped to further reduce Death Rate by 60% (80% MLB)!
  • First Hassan is Death Immune

    The following is a list of current NA Servants most resistant to Instant Death (passive abilities included):

ID Icon Servant Death Chance Sort descending
285 Sessyoin Kiara (Moon Cancer) 0.50%
220 BB (Summer) 0.50%
166 BB 0.60%
244 Ganesha (Jinako) 0.70%
268 Space Ishtar 5.00%
321 Kama (Avenger) 5.00%
324 Jacques de Molay 5.00%
106 Jeanne d'Arc (Alter) 5.70%
334 Koyanskaya of Dark 6.00%
289 Abigail Williams (Summer) 6.00%
295 Van Gogh 6.00%
308 Mysterious Idol X (Alter) 6.70%
250 Demon King Nobunaga (Oda Nobunaga) 7.00%
303 Taira-no-Kagekiyo 7.00%
147 Gorgon 7.00%
96 Edmond Dantes 7.00%
281 Voyager 7.00%
204 Antonio Salieri 8.00%
158 Avenger of Shinjuku 10.00%
335 Hephaistion 17.20%
299 Ibuki-Douji 17.50%
242 Astraea 17.50%
316 Oberon 18.00%
3 Altria Pendragon (Alter) 19.20%
135 Saint Martha (Ruler) 21.00%
265 Altria Pendragon (Ruler) 21.00%
93 Amakusa Shirou 21.00%
320 Leonardo da Vinci (Ruler) 21.00%
2 Altria Pendragon 21.00%
123 Gawain 21.00%
292 Himiko 21.00%
165 Suzuka Gozen 21.00%
59 Jeanne d'Arc 21.00%
15 Euryale 22.50%
142 Ishtar 22.50%
78 Altria Pendragon (Lancer Alter) 23.00%
214 Valkyrie 23.00%
312 Melusine 23.00%
119 Altria Pendragon (Lancer) 24.00%
288 Yu Mei-ren (Lancer) 24.00%
300 Vritra 24.00%
18 Elisabeth Bathory 24.00%
181 Minamoto-no-Raikou (Lancer) 24.00%
140 Vlad III (EXTRA) 24.00%
91 Ryougi Shiki (Saber) 24.50%
270 Astolfo (Saber) 24.50%
317 Okita Souji (Saber Alter) 24.50%
173 Sherlock Holmes 24.50%
234 Beni-Enma 24.50%
290 Archer of Inferno (Saber) 24.50%
5 Nero Claudius 24.50%
160 Arthur Pendragon (Prototype) 24.50%
8 Altera 24.50%
101 Rama 24.50%
331 Taigong Wang 25.00%
167 Sessyoin Kiara 25.00%
336 Manannan mac Lir (Bazett) 25.00%
144 Quetzalcoatl 25.00%
224 Sitonai 25.00%
297 Ashiya Douman 25.00%
129 Altria Pendragon (Archer) 25.80%
280 Romulus=Quirinus 26.00%
180 Helena Blavatsky (Archer) 27.00%
60 Orion 27.00%
262 Osakabehime (Archer) 27.00%
304 Kiichi Hogen 27.50%
41 Stheno 27.50%
64 Hektor 28.00%
266 Mysterious Alter Ego Λ 28.00%
193 Nezha 28.00%
183 Parvati 28.00%
141 Jeanne d'Arc (Alter Santa Lily) 28.00%
126 Bedivere 28.00%
121 Lancelot (Saber) 28.00%
143 Enkidu 28.00%
20 Cu Chulainn (Prototype) 28.00%
310 Barghest 28.00%
6 Siegfried 28.00%
138 Elisabeth Bathory (Brave) 28.00%
278 Dioscuri 28.00%
245 Lakshmi Bai 28.00%
85 Karna 28.00%
298 Watanabe-no-Tsuna 28.00%
10 Chevalier d'Eon 28.00%
305 Amor (Caren) 28.80%
30 Saint Martha 30.00%
33 Hans Christian Andersen 30.00%
163 Meltryllis 30.00%
179 Altria Pendragon (Rider Alter) 30.00%
241 Sima Yi (Reines) 30.00%
118 Ozymandias 30.00%
296 Nemo 30.00%
255 Paris 30.30%
11 EMIYA 31.50%
227 Prince of Lan Ling 31.50%
13 Robin Hood 31.50%
301 Karna (Santa) 31.50%
14 Atalante 31.50%
157 EMIYA (Alter) 31.50%
184 Archer of Inferno 31.50%
254 Jason 31.50%
286 Illyasviel von Einzbern (Archer) 31.50%
77 Nikola Tesla 31.50%
207 Chiron 31.50%
122 Tristan 31.50%
311 Baobhan Sith 31.50%
7 Gaius Julius Caesar 31.50%
84 Arjuna 31.50%
176 Frankenstein (Saber) 31.50%
223 Diarmuid Ua Duibhne (Saber) 31.50%
9 Gilles de Rais 31.50%
156 Archer of Shinjuku 31.50%
248 Asvatthaman 31.50%
230 Yu Mei-ren 31.60%
239 Kama 31.60%
189 Osakabehime 31.60%
87 Fionn mac Cumhaill 32.00%
88 Brynhild 32.00%
232 Bradamante 32.00%
17 Cu Chulainn 32.00%
21 Leonidas 32.00%
22 Romulus 32.00%
329 Sakamoto Ryouma (Lancer) 32.00%
283 Utsumi Erice 32.00%
314 Koyanskaya of Light 33.00%
177 Nitocris (Assassin) 33.00%
277 Odysseus 33.70%
192 Caster of Okeanos 34.50%
31 Medea 34.50%
111 Irisviel (Holy Grail) 34.50%
113 Xuanzang Sanzang 34.50%
37 Zhuge Liang (El-Melloi II) 34.50%
29 Marie Antoinette 35.00%
90 Nero Claudius (Bride) 35.00%
252 Nagao Kagetora 35.00%
302 Senji Muramasa 35.00%
72 Fergus mac Roich 35.00%
291 Murasaki Shikibu (Rider) 35.00%
274 Europa 35.00%
132 Mordred (Rider) 35.00%
164 Passionlip 35.00%
326 Elisabeth Bathory (Cinderella) 35.00%
293 Saito Hajime 35.00%
23 Medusa 35.00%
187 Yagyu Munenori 35.00%
153 Miyamoto Musashi 35.00%
27 Ushiwakamaru 35.00%
182 Ishtar (Rider) 35.00%
247 Arjuna (Alter) 35.70%
130 Marie Antoinette (Caster) 36.00%
249 Asclepius 36.00%
228 Qin Liangyu 36.00%
284 Altria Caster 36.00%
125 Tawara Touta 36.00%
194 Caster of Midrash 36.00%
318 Anastasia & Viy (Archer) 36.00%
67 Medea (Lily) 36.00%
120 Nitocris 36.00%
201 Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova 36.00%
71 Diarmuid ua Duibhne 36.00%
203 Avicebron 36.00%
35 Mephistopheles 36.00%
74 Nursery Rhyme 36.00%
19 Musashibou Benkei 36.00%
95 Kid Gilgamesh 36.00%
137 Chloe von Einzbern 36.00%
256 Gareth 36.00%
272 Super Orion 36.00%
79 Paracelsus von Hohenheim 36.00%
279 Caenis 36.00%
80 Charles Babbage 36.00%
276 Sei Shounagon 36.00%
150 Merlin 36.00%
100 Helena Blavatsky 36.00%
62 Tamamo-no-Mae 36.00%
186 Houzouin Inshun 36.00%
330 Saint Martha (Santa) 36.00%
63 David 36.00%
313 Percival 36.00%
155 Mysterious Heroine X (Alter) 37.30%
309 Morgan 37.30%
117 Fuuma Kotarou 38.50%
170 Assassin of the Nightless City 38.50%
86 Mysterious Heroine X 38.50%
47 Heracles 39.00%
58 Tamamo Cat 39.00%
171 Berserker of El Dorado 39.00%
114 Minamoto-no-Raikou 39.00%
271 Nightingale (Santa) 39.30%
28 Alexander 40.00%
146 Medusa (Lancer) 40.00%
108 Iskandar 40.00%
115 Sakata Kintoki (Rider) 40.00%
231 Red Hare 40.00%
94 Astolfo 40.00%
206 Achilles 40.00%
273 Mandricardo 40.00%
128 Tamamo-no-Mae (Lancer) 40.00%
99 Queen Medb 40.00%
102 Li Shuwen 40.00%
148 Jaguar Warrior 40.00%
315 Habetrot 40.00%
332 Dobrynya Nikitich 40.00%
104 Geronimo 40.50%
269 Calamity Jane 40.50%
131 Anne Bonny & Mary Read (Archer) 40.50%
36 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 40.50%
325 Zenobia 40.50%
136 Illyasviel von Einzbern 42.00%
237 Murasaki Shikibu 42.00%
175 Nero Claudius (Caster) 42.00%
258 Chen Gong 42.00%
38 Cu Chulainn (Caster) 42.00%
327 Izumo-no-Okuni 42.00%
145 Gilgamesh (Caster) 42.00%
306 Galatea 43.80%
46 Carmilla 44.00%
188 Katou Danzo 44.00%
109 EMIYA (Assassin) 44.00%
110 Hassan of the Hundred Personas 44.00%
92 Ryougi Shiki (Assassin) 44.00%
75 Jack the Ripper 44.00%
185 Assassin of Paraiso 44.00%
40 Hassan of the Cursed Arm 44.00%
124 Hassan of the Serenity 44.00%
105 Billy the Kid 45.00%
319 Charlotte Corday (Caster) 45.00%
16 Arash 45.00%
34 William Shakespeare 45.00%
322 Caenis (Rider) 45.00%
238 Kingprotea 45.00%
257 Bartholomew Roberts 45.00%
212 Napoleon 45.00%
294 Oda Nobukatsu 45.00%
24 Georgios 45.00%
25 Edward Teach 45.00%
263 Carmilla (Rider) 45.00%
26 Boudica 45.00%
246 William Tell 45.00%
282 Kijyo Koyo 45.50%
287 Brynhild (Berserker) 45.50%
202 Atalante (Alter) 45.50%
52 Vlad III 45.50%
307 Miss Crane 46.50%
169 Caster of the Nightless City 48.00%
32 Gilles de Rais (Caster) 48.00%
159 Assassin of Shinjuku 49.50%
139 Cleopatra 49.50%
154 First Hassan 49.50%
43 Charles-Henri Sanson 49.50%
44 Phantom of the Opera 49.50%
267 Okita J Souji 49.50%
172 Rider of Resistance 50.00%
65 Francis Drake 50.00%
66 Anne Bonny & Mary Read 50.00%
49 Lu Bu Fengxian 50.30%
48 Lancelot 52.00%
162 Chacha 52.00%
178 Oda Nobunaga (Berserker) 52.00%
116 Ibaraki-Douji 52.00%
98 Cu Chulainn (Alter) 52.00%
261 Miyamoto Musashi (Berserker) 52.00%
226 Xiang Yu 52.00%
235 Li Shuwen (Assassin) 55.00%
39 Sasaki Kojirou 55.00%
210 Okada Izo 55.00%
259 Charlotte Corday 55.00%
81 Henry Jekyll & Hyde 55.00%
42 Jing Ke 55.00%
45 Mata Hari 55.00%
54 Caligula 56.80%
97 Nightingale 56.80%
89 Beowulf 58.50%
53 Asterios 58.50%
57 Eric Bloodaxe 58.50%
260 Salome 58.50%
82 Frankenstein 58.50%
103 Thomas Edison 60.00%
50 Spartacus 65.00%
251 Mori Nagayoshi 65.00%
323 Sei Shounagon (Berserker) 65.00%
55 Darius III 65.00%
56 Kiyohime 65.00%
161 Hijikata Toshizo 65.00%
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