Ah yes, another Artoria. Just what you all secretly wanted.

This time she’s in a cute swimsuit and she’s ready to hit the beach. Fate Grand Order’s poster girl makes her appearance in the first ever summer event! Ex...Shoot!!

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↳Skills

N o t e: Priorities of skills will be placed in order by: :green_heart: :yellow_heart: :heart:

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↠ Summer Splash! A+ :green_heart:

Summer Splash is her first skill, you will have access to it when you first get her. When activated it applies 20%-30% arts up for herself. On top of that, the whole party including herself gets defense up by 10%-20% for three turns. With a cooldown of 8 to 6, it would be smartest to max this skill first. Team and self !

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↠ Protection of the Beach House EX :heart:

This skill will be available once you reach first ascension. With a 5,000 heal at max level this skill sounds too good to be true. This is one of the highest self heals in the game, rivaling Saber Shiki’s. However it does come with a demerit. It decreases the noble phantasm gauge by 10%, which is annoying if you want to heal and use her np. Which is why I recommend you go for a level two noble phantasm. The cool down ranges from 6 to 4.

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↠ Beach Flower B :yellow_heart:

Pretty much a standard charisma but upgraded. When activated it applies 8%-18% attack up for the whole party and critical star generation up for male allies 18%-38%. Another skill that makes Artoria good for . Cool down ranges from 7 fo 5.

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↳Noble Phantasm

↠ Excalibur Vivian

Artoria has a single target arts noble phantasm that can easily be used again and again. It deals significant damage to one enemy and has a 70% chance of decreasing the selected targets noble phantasm gauge by one. On top of that her noble phantasm automatically charges from 20%-40%. Use her in a brave chain with her two other arts cards and you’re set.

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↳Card Deck

Artoria’s card deck consists of two arts cards, two quick cards, and one buster card.

Artoria has a noble phantasm gain of 0.59%, which is decent. But the gain really comes in with the amount of hits from her cards. Her arts card has three hits, her quick card has four, her extra attack has five, and her noble phantasm has ten. Her star generation is rather good sitting at 8%. Since she is in the Archer class she has a high star weight, this means she works well as a critical arts servant.

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↳ive Skills

N o t e: ive skills are not something you can see or switch on! They’re automatically activated when the selected character enters the field.

↠ Magic Resistance A

Increases debuff resist by 20%.

↠ Independent Action A

Increases critical strength by 10%.

↠ Territory Creation

Increases own arts card performance by 10%.

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↳Craft Essence Recommendation

N o t e: I am aware the following list is all 5* and not everyone has access to them. When equipping a craft essences to Artoria, choose something that increases arts performance, noble phantasm performance, or critical damage up. A good 4* example would be Projection. MLB stands for max limit broken, this means you have achieved five copies of the same craft essence and have combined do them together.

↠ Formal Craft

Increases arts card performance by 25% (30% MLB)

↠ Another Ending

Increases own critical damage by 20%. (25% MLB)

Increases arts card performance by 10%. (15% MLB)

↠ Heavens Feels

Increases noble phantasm damage by 40% (50% MLB)

↠ Black Grail

Increases noble phantasm damage by 60% (75% MLB)

Lose 500 health at the end of each turn (Demerit)

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↳Ascension and Skill Reinforcement

N o t e: Please that for the skill reinforcement everything is to be multiplied by 3 to find the complete total of all the materials you need. Bare with me you guys :confounded:

↠ Ascension

↠ Skill Reinforcement

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↳Bond Craft Essence

↠ Champion Cup

Once you hit bond ten, you get the Champion Cup Craft essence. This craft essence increases the party’s attack by 15% while Artoria Archer is on the field. This is a great option if you’re using Artoria as a , since her skills do make this possible. However, if you’re using her as your main hitter instead keep in mind there are better options

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↳ Recommendations

↠ Tamamo No Mae (Caster)

Tamamo works in about every single arts set up. Her Fox Wedding EX skill is targetable to any ally and heals as well. Her noble phantasm has the unique skill of reducing cool down by two, this will speed up the process.

↠ Nero Bride

Nero provides excellent . With targetable skills that increases attack, noble phantasm gain, and a heal she has you covered.

↠ Gilgamesh (Caster)

Caster Gilgamesh is another great for Artoria. His skills include arts up, attack up, and critical generation up. Perfect to help her play her role as a critical arts archer.

↠ Fuuma

A character most people would not think of teaming her up with, but it actually works quite well. Fuuma has three quick cards to help generate critical stars when you can’t do a brave chain for Artoria. His star generation helps a lot and is an easy to obtain servant. He also has a targetable evade, an important skill many complain Artoria doesn’t have.

↠ Helena Blavatsky

Helena is pretty much your budget Waver, and she’s a great too. Her first skill increases the whole party’s np gauge. This can be used when you heal Artoria to even out the debuff so you’re ready to use her noble phantasm and she’s all healed. Helena also has a skill that increases buster, arts, and quick cards for the whole party.

↠ Mozart

Mozart is a pretty good arts servant. His first skill gives a 44% arts up for the whole party for one turn. His skills are easy to level and he is easy to obtain.

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↳ Sample Teams

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↳Ascension Art

↠First Ascension

↠ Second Ascension

↠ Third Ascension

↠ Fourth Ascension

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↳ Pros and Cons

↠Pros

:heart: Amazing np gain

:heart: Critical star generation

:heart: and main hitter

:heart: Balanced deck

:heart: High debuff resistance

:heart: Spammable noble phantasm

↠Cons

:broken_heart: Limited time servant

:broken_heart: Costly in teams

:broken_heart: No evade or invincible

:broken_heart: 30 knights medals

:broken_heart: A lot of frickin QP

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↳When is She Available?

N o t e: Artoria Archer is a limited time servant! You can not summon her unless she is d on the banner!

↠ North America Server:

Her first release has already ed. She will be available again next year for the rerun which will be around the same time. My estimate would be mid July to early August. She will also make another appearance the year after for a milestone celebration!

↠ Japanese Server

I’m not sure when she will make her next appearance on JP, she just had a banner a while back. She might come back on a guaranteed banner, cross your fingers :confounded:

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↳Conclusion

Artoria Archer ironically might actually be the best version of Artoria. She leaves little weakness and can easily cover for her what she might be needing. If you’re like me, you’ll definitely find her at the center of your arts teams.

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