Tlaloc

“Heart of the Great City, activate. My Altar, my Cuahitl, my beloved Tlamacazqui! This time, I won't lose you!”

Introduced during the seventh Lostbelt chapter under many names, Tenochtitlan, also known as Tlaloc or Huitzilopochtli, is a Pretender Class Servant with an AoE Quick NP with a primary focus on damage with some capacity for party support as well.

Tenochtitlan’s skill spread contains a mix of buffs for herself and for the party, mostly with an offensive focus. Her first skill, Third Sun A, acts as her self NP charge skill, giving 30% at once and additionally providing up to 10% charge per turn for 3 turns, helping to support her looping capability, which is otherwise somewhat on the difficult side. Additionally, this skill provides a 3-turn Near Water battlefield type change. This comes in handy for herself, where she gains 20% Critical Strength in the Near Water battlefield type, while also providing support for any allies that utilize this field type. Her second skill, Xōchiyāōyōtl A, is support focused, providing ATK, Crit Damage, and Sure Hit buffs to all allies, while removing Guts buffs from enemies. If the Guts removal is successful, enemies will be hit with a hefty DEF -50% debuff at maximum level. Her third skill, Lake of the Moon EX, is her primary self damage buff, providing her with Quick, Arts, and Critical Strength buffs for three turns. It additional provides a decent Damage Cut for all allies for 3 hits across 3 turns.

Her NP, Ometeotl Tenochtitlan, gives her an NP Gain buff while Near Water, and an NP Damage buff before dealing damage to all enemies. Additionally, it provides an NP Damage buff to all allies afterwards. Overall, her NP is a straightforward source of damage that has quite respectable hitcounts, mostly hampered by her low base NP gain. However, the NP Gain buff helps with her refund, along with the NP Regen effect of her first skill, making her still quite serviceable as a farmer.

Overall, Tenochtitlan makes for a decent if relatively straightforward multipurpose farmer. She is the first Quick AoE Pretender Servant, carving a small niche for herself as a decent choice for mixed Knight Class enemies or against the (rare) Alter Ego Class mobs. She is also one of the first Servants able to lay claim to being the representation of an entire city, and hits hard with a giant robot to boot!

Decent NP Gain and Refund

With access to 30% NP charge on demand, additional 10% NP charge per turn for 3 turns, and a 20% NP Gain buff from her NP’s before-damage effect, Tenochtitlan has no shortage of sources for NP gauge. Her NP additionally hits 6 times, and makes her somewhat low 0.58% NP Gain still serviceable for looping when combined with all her other sources of NP charge.

Conditionally Powerful Offensive Support

Although not always applicable, the ceiling of her offensive support to allies from her second skill goes up to a whopping +70% effective ATK, from the +20% ATK from the buff, and the -50% DEF if the Guts removal effect of her second skill succeeds. If planning to go up against any enemies that have removable Guts effects (potentially in a challenge quest or similar), she provides some of the highest value boosts to damage around and is a good option to keep in mind.

No Hard Defense

Her primary form of damage mitigation comes from the 3-time, 3-turn Damage Cut of her third skill. Although the Damage Cut values are generous at 2k when max leveled, it is best used for smaller hits and is less effective against burst damage sources such as enemy NPs.

For most cases, giving Tenochtitlan easier and more consistent access to her NP by leveling her first skill is ideal. Both of her remaining skills provide excellent boosts to her damage performance, with her third skill being more important for higher refund while her second skill still being an attractive choice for its ally support effects. The recommended order is 1 >> 3 >= 2.

• Third Sun A – This is Tenochtitlan’s primary NP charge skill, where both the NP Gauge gained on use, along with the NP Gauge gained per turn increase with level. This skill is worth maxing out to take advantage of as much NP charge as possible.

• Xōchiyāōyōtl A – This skill’s ATK, Crit Strength, and DEF debuff (if Guts removal succeeds) all scale well with level, and also benefit all allies. This skill is a great choice for leveling due to many of its effects improving with level, and if Masters are using Tenochtitlan as an offensive support (for that +70% effective ATK multiplier), this skill can be worth prioritizing.

• Lake of the Moon EX – This is a selfish offensive buff skill combined with a minor damage cut to the party. All effects of this skill scale with level, and importantly the Quick buff also helps slightly support the refund of her NP. In most use cases such as farming mobs, this skill takes priority over the second skill.

Tenochtitlan is primarily a damage focused AoE farmer, so they benefit most from Starting NP Gauge CEs. Having all three types of damage buffs within her own kit, she mostly equally benefits from Quick, ATK, or NP Damage buffs, with Quick slightly winning out for its additional effect on NP Gain and Star Drop Rate.

• Knights of Marines / Crimson Teacher’s Pointer / Traces of Christmases Past / Star’s Day Off / Cherry Icicle / One Summer / Mission Start / Imaginary Number Attribute / Golden Sumo: Boulder Tournament / Holy Night Supper – These hybrid NP starter CEs also provide a boost to her offensive performance. Starting with 50% NP Gauge allows Tenochtitlan to NP immediately if she also has her 2nd Append Skill maxed, along with her first Active Skill.

• Kaleidoscope / Winter Crystal / The Imaginary Element – Pure starting NP Gauge CEs that can allow Tenochtitlan to NP earlier. With an MLB Kaleidoscope or Kaleidoscope + 2nd Append Skill, she can NP right off the bat and save her NP charge skill for another turn.

• The Black Grail / Heaven's Feel – These CEs are pure NP damage boosts, and provide the largest possible boost to Tenochtitlan’s NP damage.