Sodom's Beast / Draco

“People answer to their desires. But I taste desires. It is obvious who is superior.”

Sodom’s Beast / Draco is the deplorable and infamous Beast of the New Testament that devastated Babylonia. As the Beast is the antithesis of Human Order, Draco possesses a one-of-a-kind Class Advantage against the Seven Standard Classes that represent humanity. Thanks to her ludicrous skill set to tackle difficult battles, Sodom’s Beast / Draco is one of our strongest Arts Single Target Challenge Quest specialists in the game.

Draco’s most prolific trait is her class. Being the first Beast-class Servant in the game, she has unique Class Advantage and Disadvantage. Specifically, Draco will deal 1.5x damage against and take 0.5x from all 7 Standard Classes enemies (with Berserker taking 2.x damage as usual but still only dealing 0.5x damage to Draco herself), while the reverse will be true against the non-Standard classes.

But her power does not come just from this wide coverage, but also her powerful set of skills. Number of the Beast C is a self-buff that grants her NP Gauge charging per turn for a whopping 6 turns, and Critical Damage and Damage Cut each for 6 times. Aurea Poculum C inflicts Skill Seal on all enemies for 1 turn and Burn on all enemies for 3 turns, and also increases Draco’s Attack and applies a unique [Holy Grail Possession] to herself for 3 turns, with a demerit of increase all enemies’ NP Bar by 1. [Holy Grail Possession] is a prerequisite for her third skill to work. Seven Beast Crowns C, without [Holy Grail Possession], will only increase Draco’s Buff Removal Resistance by 100% for 1 time over 3 turns. When she gets the unique status from her second skill however, this skill will provide her 7 different effects, symbolizing the seven crowns. They are Special Attack against enemies with [Dragon] trait and [Roman] trait, Critical Stars every turn, Ignore Defense, Increased Healing Received, and 20% NP Gauge charging per turn, all for 3 turns, and a Debuff Immunity for 1 time to top it off. Needless to say, this skill should only be used when Draco has her second skill up.

Babalon Domus Aurea - Draco’s Noble Phantasm is a single target Arts attack that deals extra damage against any Servants of the Seven Standard Classes and a respectable NP Refund. While this NP is simplistic for a Servant with so many different effects, this Noble Phantasm is highly effective at what it does, being a nuclear level attack against any Servant of Seven Standard Classes that is unlucky enough to take it from Draco, and her NP Gauge charging effects as well as the wide variety of strong Arts looping Support Servants let her utilize this frequently.

It is undeniable that Draco is a beast in high-difficulty quests. Many story and event battles feature bosses that are Servants of Seven Standard Classes, which Draco will shred through with impunity while taking little punishment in return, thanks to the absurd amount of strong utilities from her Skill Set, covering almost all bases to counteract bosses’ gimmicks. Draco’s biggest strength is also her singular point of weakness. She is exceptionally neutered when fighting any non-standard class enemies. Over time, these encounters are getting more and more common, and battles that feature both standard and non-standard classes are also troublesome for her to deal with as the sole Damage Dealer of the team. Nonetheless, Draco is an exceptional Servant, and there is only a tiny subset of Servants in the game that can boast such similar expertise at her role.

Exceptional Single Target Damage Against Standard Class Enemies

Due to her Class Advantage, two anti-trait bonuses from her third skill and a particularly powerful super effective modifier against any Servants of the Seven Standard Classes from her Noble Phantasm, Draco’s Single Target damage output can overwhelm most fights against enemies with these characteristics. Furthermore, Draco has NP Generation from her Skills and Noble Phantasm, allowing her to fire off her powerful Noble Phantasm at high frequency repeatedly.

Nigh Unparalleled Challenge Quest Utility

Draco has a lot of defensive effects that benefit her massively in Challenge Quests and allow her to bypass bosses' gimmicks. Some of these are quite rare to find from Damage Dealers, such as Buff Removal Resistance, Debuff Immunity, and Defense Ignore. Arts being the card type with the most powerful Challenge Quest Support Servants such as Altria Caster, Tamamo-no-Mae or Lady Avalon further improves Draco’s potency in these scenarios.

Neutralized When Fighting Non-Standard Class Enemies

To compensate for Draco’s advantage against seven classes, she also has an equivalent disadvantage against Extra Classes' enemies, rendering her helpless against a large section of potential enemies. While these are less common, they have been appearing more often in both stories and events. This also means Masters have to pay extra attention when bringing Draco to battle with both kinds of enemies.

Draco's third skill is amongst the strongest in the game, providing a ludicrous amount of effects, and should be maxed first to improve its uptime. Between her other two skills, both are good but not as potent, with Skill 1 providing more value due to the NP Gauge per turn scaling with level.

• Number of the Beast C - All three effects of this skill scale with level, and since one of them is NP Gauge Charging over 6 turns, it is worthwhile to max after her third skill.

• Aurea Poculum C – The attack does scale with level, and it is a good idea to get this skill to at least level 6 to synch its cooldown with her third skill

• Seven Beast Crowns C – This skill should be maxed first of the three skills as most of its effects scale with level, and they are all influential to her performance.

Being a rather straightforward Damage Dealer, Draco definitely prefers offensive buffs to improve her damage output or any effects that can let her fire off her Noble Phantasm often. Any cards with a combination of Arts Cards Effectiveness, Starting NP Gauge, NP Damage or Attack will be acceptable for her.

• The Black Grail / Heaven’s Feel / Inverted Rain of Mud: Since Draco and many Arts Supports do not provide NP Damage boost, these will provide exceptional return when it comes to damage boosting.

• Ocean Flier / Golden Sumo: Boulder Tournament / Thank You For Your Hard Work! / Magical Sion / A Reward For Your Studies: Since Draco does not have any frontload Starting NP Gauge, this stat is preferable when Masters need to fire off her Noble Phantasm on the first turn. These are all farmable Craft Essences from Events with Starting NP Gauge in conjunction with offensive buffs that Draco can use.