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Tezcatlipoca
Tlaloc

The Modern Magus Magazine

With all these Aztec-themed Gods and Servants released, I have to ask…

Ahh, dear little Ocelotl…Where have you gone? Are you hiding from me? Come out, come out, don't be afraid. You were born a child of jaguars, what could you possibly fear? Now, now, show yourself, Ocelotl. My dear, little Ocelotl… OCELOTLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL!

But in all seriousness, we had two shots at it and still don’t have a (real, sorry Taiga) Jaguar Warrior to call a Servant. They’re just cool, okay?

I suppose Tezcatlipoca is about as close as we can get. And in the theme of Aztec names, these are some hard-ass names to spell. Thankfully with Quetzalcoatl, Camazotz, and Tezcatlipoca, I have had some experience from their appearances in…other kinds of games.

If Paradox Part 3 doesn’t come out soon I might need an Intervention Device to change the timeline…

Tezcatlipoca

Introduction

This is the last time I’m gonna spell Tezcatlipoca in full on this MMM, so enjoy it. Tez has got a pretty sick look in his first Ascension, but well…let’s just keep him that way, okay? His sense of fashion has clearly only improved in modern times.

1990’s MTG creature lookin-ass dude.

Servant Data

Assassin

QAABB (Saber)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

4

3

4

6

4

Attribute	Heaven
Alignment	Chaotic Good

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

Max HP 14,535

HP Rank

Max ATK 10,982

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,697	Base HP	2,131
Max Atk	10,982	Max HP	14,535
Grail Atk	12,021	Grail HP	15,924

Traits

Card Hits	4	3	4	6	4
Per Hit	0.41%	0.41%	0.41%	0.41%	0.41%

	NP per Hit (%)	0.41%
NP when Attacked (%)	4%

	Star Absorption	99
Star Generation per Hit	25.5%

Dmg Up

Combat Charisma A

Increase ATK for all allies (3 turns).
Further increase ATK for all allies with [Guts] (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Attack +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Guts Attack +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Starting off Tez’s skill lineup is Combat Charisma. As you may expect from the name, this is a Charisma clone, and an exceedingly simple one, at that.

He provides the typical 20% attack buff to the team for 3 turns with a 7-turn base cooldown, then in addition provides another 20% for any allies that have Guts buffs active. While this may seem like an odd condition, ultimately the only thing you need to know is that Tez does have a Guts skill in his own kit, so he can provide himself that additional attack buff by default, making this a 40% attack buff over 3 turns for himself, and 20% for his teammates.

While this skill is painfully basic, it has the numbers behind it to not be that bad overall. When you’re an offensive Servant, offensive buffs are good, and a 40% attack buff over 3 turns is definitely in the upper end of offensive buffs out there in the game. The potential for some interesting team support combos on top of that is just the icing on the cake.

Start Np

Black Sun EX

Increase own NP Gauge.
Increase NP Gauge for all allies except self.
Apply Invincible to all allies (2 times, 3 turns).
Inflict Nullify Invincible Buff to all allies (1 time, 3 turns) [Demerit].

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Self NP +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
Party NP +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
CD	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	7

Now we move on to the more in-depth stuff. Black Sun has a grandiose name for a pretty grand effect: Acting as Tez’s gauge charger, this skill provides him with the typical 50% gauge charge, while also providing his allies with 30% gauge as well.

That alone is a scarily good effect, essentially providing 110% gauge charge divided across the party. But there’s even more - he also provides a 2-time, 3-turn Invincible buff to the party, albeit at the cost of debuffing the party with a 1-time, 3-turn Null Buff debuff for specifically Invincible buffs. So while it provides a huge defensive boon to the party, it comes at the cost of preventing your next buff of that type for the duration.

I’m unsure if said debuff prevents Special Invincible (Castoria’s NP Invincible buff) or just the regular kind, but regardless it isn’t too hard to play around, especially since Tez’s own buff probably covers your defensive needs for a few turns anyway.

Overall this takes the crown as one of, if not the best singular skill in the game by the power of its effects alone. Team gauge charge, as anyone who has touched Castoria in their life, is incredibly potent, doubly so when you’re boosting your own gauge even more than the team’s. Add in the defensive utility and this skill alone is a team supporting monstrosity in difficult content. The only flaw to it is the relatively long 9-turn base cooldown, but considering the power of the skill it’s pretty fair.

Guts

Tepeyollotl A

Apply Guts to self (1 time, 3 turns).
Increase own Arts Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Apply Special ATK [Divine] to self (3 turns).
Apply Special ATK [Super Giant] to self (3 turns).
Grants Sunlight Battlefield Nullification buff to self (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Revives with HP	1000	1200	1400	1600	1800	2000	2200	2400	2600	3000
Arts +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Divine Atk +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
Super Giant Atk +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Last to look at is Tepeyollotl. This skill may have a Guts icon, but don’t let that deceive you, it’s essentially all offensive buffs. The Guts is a standard 3k HP, 1-time, 3-turn buff, but its real power is the fact it turns on the secondary attack buff from Tez’s Charisma, essentially making it a 20% attack buff by proxy.

That Guts buff is partnered with a handful of other offensive buffs, all lasting 3 turns - a 30% Arts Up buff, and 50% anti-Divine and anti-Super Giant effective damage buffs apiece.

The Arts buff alone is an important improvement to Tez’s damage output and NP gain in one, but the effective damage buffs are also incredibly useful. The Divine trait is fairly common for both Servants and major story bosses alike, appearing in roughly a third of the Servant roster, while Super Giant is a bit more limited in scope, only working on Summer BB and Kingprotea for Servants, as well as a fairly broad number of generics and a surprisingly large amount of story bosses. If the boss occupies more space than Heracles on the screen, it’s probably got the Super Giant trait.

Point being, those two traits are pretty common, and they even overlap a good number of times, meaning it provides an immense damage boost to Tez in not-so-uncommon circumstances. The offensive boost this skill can provide is huge, and it even comes packaged with a defensive buff to keep Tez alive on top of that, albeit at an 8-turn base cooldown.

Gotta pay the Guts tax, I suppose.

Noble Phantasm

First Sun Xibalba B

Apply Ignore Invincible to self (1 turn) [Activates first].
Deal damage to all enemies. [450-750%]
Increase NP Gauge for all allies by 10%.

<Overcharge>

Increase own NP Strength (3 turns) [Activates first]. [20-40%]

Show Info/Video

First Sun Xibalba

第一の太陽

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
	B	Anti-World	4

Effect	Apply Ignore Invincible to self (1 turn) [Activates first]. Deal damage to all enemies. [450-750%] Increase NP Gauge for all allies by 10%.

Level	1	2	3	4	5

Overcharge Effect	Increase own NP Strength (3 turns) [Activates first]. [20-40%]

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%

It’s no great surprise, but Tez’s NP is an AOE Arts NP. Huzzah. I feel Lasengle have gone a little bit too far in solidifying the Arts farming meta of late, but it’s not like I get to make the decisions.

First Sun Xibalba is a largely straightforward Arts AOE NP, with some bonus effects that add to the oomph. Before dealing damage, Tez buffs himself with 1-turn Invincible Pierce and, more importantly, a 20% NP Strength Up buff (scaling with Overcharge) for 3 turns.

Anybody who has used Space Ishtar before knows how powerful that kind of buff on a NP can be, especially with Oberon floating around in the meta to create devastating turn 3’s if given the chance.

After applying those buffs, Tez deals his damage, with no frills in any way. But lastly, he provides the entire team with 10% gauge charge, which includes himself. Essentially a free 10% refund on his NP, similar to Voyager or most of the Artoria variants.

Just going by effects alone, this NP is pretty great. Invincible Pierce is always useful in difficult content, especially since more recently Lasengle has really enjoyed throwing Invincible buffs that can’t be removed by buff removal on enemies in the story, events or mainline. Add in the powerful ramping damage on this NP and the team support via extra gauge charge, and you can see why I consider this, based on effects alone, one of the better NP’s in the game.

But we need to talk about Tez’s farming capability, of course. With his own buffs active, Tez’s NP produces a reasonable 20% refund, 30% when the in-built gauge charge is factored in. Tossing him into a typical double Castoria setup with a 50% gauge CE, he instead gets a more impressive 72% with the gauge charge accounted for. More than enough to manage 3-turn loops, of course.

His damage output also needs to be evaluated. In the prior setup, he dishes out 65k damage neutral on wave 1, 76.2k wave 2, and 109k wave 3, with a typical offensive Mystic Code factored in. With class advantage that’s more than enough to farm any event node, and even hitting neutral class enemies it covers a lot of farming nodes. Simply put, his damage output is very on-par despite some of his handicaps in bases and class.
But we can do better. With Black Grail and a 1k attack fou setup, double Castoria and Oberon on Battlesuit Swap, he easily makes a 3 turn loop, and dishes out 118k damage neutral wave 1, 130k wave 2, and a whopping 262k neutral wave 3. To give you a frame of reference, that’s not far from how much Melusine can dish out, and very close to Space Ishtar’s damage in a similar setup. If Tez wasn’t an Assassin he’d almost certainly do more than Space Ishtar, that’s for sure.

Even in more budget builds that cut 1 of Oberon or Black Grail he still has some downright frightful damage output, With relatively easy loops, even if he’s facing Berserker class NP gain modifier or similar disadvantages, Tez is frankly a house at farming.

Conclusion

So how is Tez overall? Well on one hand, we are all slaves to his overwhelming might:

Tez frankly makes for an absurd farmer, up there with the best universal farmers in the game, and capable of damage numbers which, similar to Melusine, can manage consistent farming in event nodes even when facing class disadvantage if you really want to flex. His great refund, high damage output, and excellent gauge charge skill mean he’s both consistent and versatile in where you can use him. He even has an advantage in benefitting slightly more off Mystic Code boosts than any other Servant. Can Space Ishtar do that? I think not!

He doesn’t stop there, of course. Tez’s amazing profile for farming translates arguably even better to high difficulty content. His team gauge charging, team Invincible buff, dependable refund, and Invincibility-piercing high damage output (especially when pitted against his effective damage traits) all contribute to his incredible performance, and even small things like his NP’s inherent team 10% gauge charge mean he isn’t dependent on hitting 3 targets to get solid refund. He’s just one of those damage dealers you’d feel like bringing even outside of class advantage because his kit is so useful.

However, he’s also an enemy of both sides, so don’t get too attached:

As much as I’ve praised Tez’s NP spam, that’s only in the context of being able to string together multiple-turn loops with team Arts support buffs active. Tez’s NP gain at baseline on his regular cards remains very poor, and as such he may struggle to build his NP gauge back up once the 3-turn high of Castoria buffs wear off. This is a problem most loopers face in difficult content, but Tez faces a greater setback than most, and it can end up costing you.

I’ll be frank, for a long time I’ve considered the Assassin class something of the black horse of the original 7 classes. Compared to other classes, who have boasted spectacular farmers, superb supports, or just all-around powerhouses in difficult content, the Assassin class didn’t get a truly incredible Servant in its lineup (on par with the likes of Melusine, Morgan, Castoria, Reines, ect.) until Kama, and even then only Koyanskaya since has truly been on a similar power level.

And despite all that, the Assassin class still lacked a definitive, powerful farming Servant. Some of the welfares are capable of it, don’t get me wrong, but nobody really stood above the pack and produced the numbers to make themselves count, or even compete with the better universal farmers out there.

Until now. Tez is pretty much everything you could ask for out of a farmer, with extremely good tools for high-difficulty content on top of that. The greatest weakness he really has is simply the fact he is an Assassin, meaning his Attack stat is inherently lesser compared to other classes. If a Berserker or Avenger had Tez’s own kit, they would easily blow the current farming metagame out of the water.

Regardless, Tez is incredibly good, not just as an Assassin farmer, but a universal one, and easily claims a spot as one of the most desirable SSR’s in the game at the moment with all his perks taken into account. Rath™ Seal of Approval, with a recommendation.

Tlaloc

Introduction

Here I stand beneath the warm and soothing rain, the droplets falling gently down on the ter-rain. Wash away the sorrow, all the stains of time, there is no memory, it’s only dry ins-iiide.

Servant Data

Pretender

QQAAB (Archer)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

4

3

5

6

Attribute	Earth
Alignment	Lawful Good

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

Max HP 12,344

HP Rank

Max ATK 8,721

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,453	Base HP	1,975
Max Atk	8,721	Max HP	12,344
Grail Atk	10,559	Grail HP	14,967

Territory Creation EX

Increase your Arts Card effectiveness by 12%.

Divinity A+

Apply Damage Plus for yourself (Total Card Damage +210).

Waterside Work A+

Increase own Critical Strength by 20% when battlefield is [near water].

Alliance of City-States A

Increase Arts Card effectiveness by 8% for all allies except self while on the field.

Overview

Well, the Pretender pool is actually getting a bit sizable now. As an SR Pretender, Tlaloc has 2 other Servants to be compared to, and the immediate impression I get is that all our Pretenders have been incredibly offensively-oriented until now.

With the highest HP stat and lowest Attack stat of her rarity by a long shot, Tlaloc isn’t exactly an offensive house, and likewise, her HP stat isn’t exactly the greatest for how much her Attack suffers. It’s not like her total is significantly worse than the other Pretenders, so I’m pretty sure it’s just the class as a whole doesn’t have the best stats to work with.

It’s a shame, but Tlaloc does get compensated for it with some solid passives. Territory Creation and Divinity provide offensive boosts to Tlaloc, even if minor, simply because Divinity isn’t very strong and Tlaloc is a Quick-focused Servant, not Arts. She also has two unique passives - Waterside Work and Alliance of City States. These passives provide her with a notable critical damage boost when on Near Water terrain maps, and her allies with a small Arts card boost when she’s on field, excluding herself.

While those unique passives seem minor, Tlaloc is (spoilers) capable of changing the terrain to Near Water, so she does essentially get a free +20% Critical Damage when she needs it, which certainly helps her middling offense.

NP Generation

Card Hits	4	3	3	5	6
Per Hit	0.58%	0.58%	0.58%	0.58%	0.58%

	NP per Hit (%)	0.58%
NP when Attacked (%)	3%

	Star Absorption	97
Star Generation per Hit	19.8%

Servant Skills

Start Np

Nahui Quiahuitl A

Increase own NP Gauge.
Apply to self: Increase own NP Gauge each turn (3 turns).
Apply Field Change: [near water] to self (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
NP +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
NP Gauge per turn +	5%	5.5%	6%	6.5%	7%	7.5%	8%	8.5%	9%	10%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Starting things off for Tlaloc’s skills is Nahui Quiahuitl. A good start for names that are hard to pronounce, but it’s essentially one of her titles?

This skill is a straightforward NP gauge charge skill, with some extra spicy sauce. It gives Tlaloc 30% gauge charge immediately, as well as 10% NP gauge per turn over 3 turns, essentially providing 60% gauge total. Getting that much gauge charge, especially on a SR Servant, is already really good, but it’s further supplemented by a buff on herself to change the field to Near Water.

That essentially means this skill provides a 20% Critical Damage buff by proxy, as well as setting up some other aspects of her kit. But the main focus is definitely that gauge charge, providing an important bump to her NP gauge immediately, on top of assisting her ability to sustain a NP loop over time.

The 8-turn base cooldown of this skill is pretty typical given the potency of its gauge charge, but it’s still a great skill overall.

Dmg Up

Xochiyaoyotl A

Increase ATK for all allies (3 turns).
Increase Critical Strength for all allies (3 turns).
Apply Sure Hit to all allies (3 turns).
Remove 1 Guts Buff from all enemies.
- If above Guts removal succeeds, decrease DEF for all affected enemies (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
ATK +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Crit Dmg +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
DEF -	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Next on the lineup of tongue-twisting skill names is Xochiyaoyotl. I believe this is somewhat related to Tlaloc’s first wife, who bears a similar name, but I’m no Aztec mythology expert so I’m not even gonna try to expand on it.

This skill, at least at baseline, is a very typical Charisma clone, providing both a 20% Attack buff and 20% Critical Damage buff to the team for 3 turns. A damage steroid is always nice to have, doubly so if it buffs the whole team, too. What really sticks out from this skill though is the secondary effect - Buff Removal of specifically Guts buffs from every single enemy, and applies a hefty 50% defense debuff to any enemy affected by the Guts removal for 3 turns.

Naturally, a 50% defense debuff is a colossal damage boost, but the prerequisite for it to apply is incredibly specific. Guts buffs only ever occur in higher-difficulty content, and even then they aren’t widespread, and even when they do show up they’re sometimes not a type of buff you can strip with buff removal.

In other words, it’s niche upon niche. I imagine when you eventually find a fight to put the effect to use, the endorphins you’ll feel (and the resultant huge damage increase) will be amazing.

Otherwise, it’s a Charisma clone on a longer, 8-turn base cooldown. Could be worse, but far from a great skill.

Quick/Arts Up

Meztliapan EX

Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Increase own Arts Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Increase own Critical Strength (3 turns).
Apply Damage cut to all allies (3 times, 3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Quick +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Arts +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Crit Dmg +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Damage Cut -	1000	1100	1200	1300	1400	1500	1600	1700	1800	2000
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Last in the trifecta of obscure Meso-American mythological terms is Meztliapan. Something to do with the Aztec moon god? I ain’t reading the profile for that.

This is your typical dual-card buff skill, providing a neat 30% boost to both Tlaloc’s Arts and Quick cards for 3 turns, but it also comes packaged with some bonuses - yet another 30% Critical Damage buff for 3 turns means Tlaloc’s crit damage game is looking pretty stacked, and a hefty 2k damage cut for every ally for 3 times, 3 turns.

Doubling up as both a strong offensive steroid and a nice team defensive buff, this skill kind of does it all. Damage cut doesn’t exactly save you from being blasted off the map by a NP or a particularly nasty crit, but it does essentially provide you with 3 attacks where regular attacks are almost guaranteed to do 0 damage. It’s somewhat similar to Max HP buffs in that it provides you healing ahead of time, but it’s a little more dependent on getting hit at the right times.

Still, it provides another offensive buff that Tlaloc certainly needed, on top of a little sprinkling of team support for her to flex beyond her own offensive prowess. Like all her other skills, it’s on an 8-turn base cooldown, so her skills all come off cooldown simultaneously.

Noble Phantasm

Ometeotl Tenochtitlan D

Increase own NP Gain by 20% when [near water] (1 turn) [Activates first].
Deal damage to all enemies.
Increase NP Strength for all allies except self by 20% (3 turns).

<Overcharge>

Increase own NP Strength (1 turn) [Activates first].

Show Info/Video

Ometeotl Tenochtitlan

Activate the Great Heart of the City

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
	D	Anti-Army	6

Effect	Increase own NP Gain by 20% when [near water] (1 turn) [Activates first]. Deal damage to all enemies. Increase NP Strength for all allies except self by 20% (3 turns).

Level	1	2	3	4	5
NP Gain +	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%
Damage +	600%	800%	900%	950%	1000%
NP Damage (Allies) +	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%

Overcharge Effect	Increase own NP Strength (1 turn) [Activates first].

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
NP Damage +	20%	25%	30%	35%	40%

Rounding off Tlaloc’s kit is Ometeotl Tenochtitlan. This is a Quick AOE NP, so it has the potential for looping, and farming as a result. But first, let’s go over the effects:

Before dishing out damage, this NP provides two buffs to Tlaloc - a 20% NP damage buff for a turn, scaling on Overcharge, and a 20% NP gain buff for the same duration, but only if she’s on Near Water terrain.

Given she’s capable of changing the terrain to Near Water with her gauge charger, Tlaloc can benefit from that bonus buff pretty much whenever you need it, so no worries about her being too niche to get the effect.

Then, this NP dishes out its damage. There’s no real frills to the damage itself in this case, but after the attack Tlaloc does provide a pretty neat 20% NP damage buff to her allies (except herself) for 3 turns. Shame she can’t benefit from it, but specifically for Quick Servants, this actually isn’t too bad, as Ruler Skadi is the premier Quick support, and packs a damaging NP that can benefit off the buff in a pinch.

While all those effects aren’t exactly incredible in a vacuum, the fact she has a NP gain buff and NP damage buff built into her kit are incredibly good, as they significantly boost both her refund and damage output for NP looping. And speaking of which…

With just her own buffs active, Tlaloc’s NP produces a baseline refund of 16%. Admittedly not that high, but with her gauge charger skill her refund each turn is essentially 10% more, and Quick NP’s don’t produce much refund typically anyways. When thrown in a typical farming setup with double Ruler Skadi and a 50% gauge CE, that refund jumps up to 35%, or 45% once her NP gauge/turn buff is factored in.

While that looks short of a full 3-turn loop on paper (Tlaloc with Mana Loading append skill and/or Mystic Code assistance needs 50% refund on her NP to 3-turn loop with double Ruler Skadi), in practice she will usually make the benchmark, if barely, due to the Overkill bonus on her last hit (the killing one, if she’s doing enough damage to 3-turn farm), bumping the refund to around the 49% mark. Of course, you can also just assume you have a Battlesuit swap support in the wings, but where’s the fun in that?

So if she just needs to net the skill, then how’s her damage output? In the prior setup, she’s doing 59.2k damage neutral waves 1 and 2, then 79k damage on wave 3. Admittedly, that’s not the worst damage in the world, but for farming purposes she will need class advantage to farm meaningfully in such a setup, and even then her damage output isn’t spectacular.

At least as a Pretender, Tlaloc’s range of class advantage is pretty broad.

But, the golden question has yet to be asked. Black Grail farming - can she do it? The answer is “Yes”, with a caveat. Unfortunately she is just barely unable to do a 3-turn loop setup with Oberon consistently (needing more Overkill than is reasonable, or a positive NP gain modifier on the enemies she’s farming), so instead she has to work with double Ruler Skadi, and regular ‘ol Skadi on Battlesuit Swap.

In such a setup, assuming 1k Attack Fous and all that jazz, we’re looking at 112k damage neutral on waves 1 and 2, with a pretty explosive finish of 154k damage neutral on wave 3. That’s more than enough damage to be a reasonable universal farmer, which goes as doubly impressive considering she’s an SR. With just NP2 backing her the damage goes well above what you could reasonably need, and that’s still not factoring in class advantage.

So while she can’t exactly dish out the same damage as some of the big league farmers, Tlaloc is certainly capable of a consistent farming loop that meets necessary damage numbers, on top of being able to supply herself with an insane amount of critical stars if applying it to high-difficult content.

Conclusion

So how’s Tlaloc overall? Well, on the one hand, she’s certainly got me wet. Soaked, even.

For an SR Servant, and one that’s not a welfare at that, Tlaloc is pretty spectacular at farming. In 50% gauge CE setups she’s more than sufficient to farm Saber/Archer/Lancer/Berserker nodes consistently, and with her Black Grail setup she can function as a universal farmer, albeit one that naturally can’t handle the Horseman classes. Which, come to think of it, isn’t very different from her class advantage pool.

Tlaloc has a fair few perks to her in high-difficulty content, too. Her plethora of critical damage buffs paired with her high stargen means she can very easily supply her own crit game and inflict a devastating sum of damage with the right opportunity. That goes doubly when Skadi’s variants provide the best boosts to critical damage in the game out of all the card types. With her small assortment of supportive tools in play as well, Tlaloc can pretty cleanly slot into teams for mixed Knight-class fights or smacking an Alter Ego or two.

However, I also, regretfully, have to rain on your parade:

Tlaloc’s biggest weakness, as is often typical for Quick farmers, lies in her inflexibility. She’s dependent on the level of damage and NP refund that Skadi buffs can provide, but equally the very stringent 50% gauge chargers that both Skadi variants have means she can’t really adapt her setups to the situation, or account for getting more/less refund than normal. As a result, this means her setups have to change drastically to deal with nodes that have 2 or 1-enemy waves, where other Servants can power through with surplus gauge charge, or just the potency of their own NP’s refund.

Tlaloc represents a pretty important milestone for the Pretender class, as they now have a Servant of each NP card type, and Tlaloc quite spectacularly sets the standard for a Quick farmer in the class.

While most of the time, in the most convenient setups, Tlaloc will be relegated to hitting her class advantage to farm, for a Pretender that’s still a huge swathe of the classes in the game, and where she might be outclassed for farming purposes, she more than compensates for it in high difficult content. Her critical damage game is very strong, both providing her a damage outlet beyond spamming her NP, and allowing her to reach full NP gauge faster via the NP gain boost of crits. When the Pretender pool, and as a result the offensive Servants who can nab full offensive class advantage versus Alter Egos, remains fairly small, Tlaloc’s strong offensive profile and capability to utilize the full supportive power of the Skadis means she stands out in a class otherwise filled with 1 other true competitor (ProtoMerlin and Oberon being mainly supports, Kumonryu Liz not being too bad, but lacking the same offensive profile Tlaloc does due to her struggles to loop) in the form of Hephaestion.

As a result, this rain deity has a niche in high demand, and executes it, as well as her farming, pretty well. Rath™ Seal of Approval.

Outro

I’ve gotta say, the wait was agonizing but, both in terms of Servants and the story chapter itself, LB7 has been worth the wait.

Knowing what I know, there’s still more Servants to review in a later gacha, and well…

All I’ll say is that Melusine and Ibuki better hold on tight to their thrones, because they may get a challenger sometime soon. It’s going to be absurd how a house like Tez is going to get overshadowed so quickly, honestly.

Until then!

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