Mysterious Ranmaru X

“I am Mysterious Ranmaru X, the best of the best out of all the Ranmarus, and the only one who is allowed to have this title! I shall make sure that you are worthy of being Ranmaru's master with these very eyes!”

The first of Avenger welfare Servants, Mysterious Ranmaru X arrives as an AoE Arts Avenger. She works effectively as an NP looper in Arts teams, and also offers a set of skills that provides both utility and enables Critical hits for the party.

Her debatably most useful skill, Ranmaru Strahl, acts as her NP charge skill while also providing her with a modest Arts buff and a small star bomb. She can also further enhance her damage on a single wave using the DEF debuff available on Ranmaru Eye, which also comes with an additional star bomb and a small chance to inflict charm on all enemies. Finally, she can put her stars to use for any ally of choice using Ranmaru Hand, which has the rather handy bonus effect of cleansing all debuffs from the targeted ally. Her skills as a whole provide a decent variety of effects, and for the most part are offensively focused, with minor effects that indirectly support the party.

Her NP, Orchid Rounds X, is a 4-hit AoE Arts NP that ignores any defense buffs when dealing damage. Ranmaru also receives a minor Critical Star Drop Rate buff when using her NP, further enhancing her and her party’s Critical hit capacity. Her passives are also notable, with passive 3% NP charge each turn, 2 extra Critical Stars each turn, and complete immunity to the burn status. In the right teams, she is capable of looping her NP and acting as a multi-class farmer since Avengers have few enemies that put them at a Class disadvantage.

Overall, Mysterious Ranmaru X makes for a great general purpose farmer to add to the roster, particularly for Masters with few options available. As an Arts AoE damage dealer, she greatly benefits from premiere Arts supports such as Altria Caster, as usual. However, she does have fierce competition in the omni-farmer role, so it can be tough finding a place for her if better options are available.

Welfare Status

As a Welfare Servant, Mysterious Ranmaru X can easily reach NP5 so long as Masters complete their event. This allows her to deal sufficient damage for wave clearing as an AoE Avenger, even against enemies that have neutral Class advantage. 

NP Looping Capability

Mysterious Ranmaru X can loop with Arts support, especially with the help of her NP charge skill and passive NP regen due to her Avenger Class. She is capable of looping relatively comfortably even with a Black Grail CE, provided an Order Change Mystic Code is used.

Utility Effects

Her NP inherently ignores DEF buffs when dealing damage, so she can easily punch through any enemies that might have high passive defense in quests with gimmicks. Additionally, she has an AoE Charm, which although not reliable (40% chance success per target), can still provide some helpful stalling capabilities to the team. Finally, she also has a targetable debuff clear effect, which can come handy in fights where enemies might use debilitating debuffs.

Lack of Hard Defense

With no hard defensive options to her name, and only an unreliable Charm to try to mitigate attacks from enemies, Ranmaru X can have trouble dealing with particularly powerful enemy attacks such as NPs. She is mostly reliant on allies for any defensive support.

Fierce Competition

The omni-farmer niche contains many rather powerful Servants that fill the role, even within Arts AoE Avengers (such as Space Ishtar and Kama Avenger). Mysterious Ranmaru X will usually not be the most optimal choice if other competitors are available, and it may be difficult to justify slotting her into the party when better alternatives are available.

Mysterious Ranmaru X’s skills each provide a small measure of offensive boost, although their effectiveness isn’t equal. Her third skill provides both the NP charge and Arts buff, making it a priority skill, while her other skills are slightly less important to level.

• Ranmaru Hand B – This skill is the targetable debuff clear that also buffs Star Gather and Critical Strength. Both of the Crit-related effects scale relatively well with level, making this skill medium-priority for leveling, although it does not necessarily need to be maxed.
• Ranmaru Eye A – The only effect that scales with level for this skill, aside from cooldown, is the defense debuff, which will only ever take effect on one wave in most cases. The scaling is also rather low, so this skill is the lowest priority. If lacking materials, it can even be safely left at level 1.
• Ranmaru Strahl A – This skill is both her NP charge and her Arts buff, both of which scale with level. To reach 20% NP charge, this skill needs to be maxed, which may be important depending on the looping setup that she is run with. This should be maxed first if Masters plan to use her. The skill also has a bonus 10 Critical Stars, which does not scale with level.

Mysterious Ranmaru X will mostly be deployed for farming scenarios, making Starting NP Gauge effects are her most desirable CEs. She additionally benefits from ATK or NP Damage buffs, which stack multiplicatively with the Card buffs from their skills, although any boosts to Arts Performance are still helpful.

• Kaleidoscope / The Imaginary Element: Mysterious Ranmaru X benefits from starting NP gauge, which can help get her NP looping engine going. Along with her NP charge skill, a non-MLB Kaleidoscope is sufficient for an NP from her right out of the gate.
• The Black Grail / Heaven’s Feel: The Black Grail provides the largest boost to Ranmaru X’s NP damage output, while Heaven’s Feel is a decent alternative if The Black Grail is unavailable. Ranmaru X can loop (although with difficulty) using The Black Grail, provided that Order Change Mystic Codes are used.
• Holy Night Supper / Mission Start / Welcome to Oniland! / Dive to Blue / Grand Puppeteer / Painting Summer / Golden Sumo: Boulder Tournament: These Craft Essences provide a mixture of starting NP Gauge and Attack, Arts, or NP Damage buffs. Both Holy Night Supper and Golden Sumo offer offensive boosts that Ranmaru X has less handy access to (although she technically has a DEF debuff for a wave, which counts in the ATK multiplier). Mission Start and Welcome to Oniland are rare ATK-stat focused Arts/NP Gauge CE options as well.