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Table of Contents
Intro
Lilith
Outro
Intro
I have to say, I’ve waited a while for this one as a player. Ever since I saw the Ordeal Call representatives back when it was announced (and we thought Ordeal Call 4 was 3 instead), Lilith’s design was so appealing to me, but little did poor Rath know he’d be waiting multiple years saving up SQ for this banner.
I don’t have much else to say, but boy would it be a bummer if I had to lambast this lady after waiting so long, personally speaking.
JP Release DateNA Release Date
5/7/20255/2027
Lilith
While we often joke about the Fate franchise trying to pretend a Servant’s identity is concealed while it’s incredibly obvious at first glance, conversely it means the character design of many Servants is so good you can draw upon contextual clues to guess their identity.
Case in point, if you forced me to bet money on her identity just based off of her first image, I would’ve gotten Lilith right immediately. 
But to avoid spoiling too much of OC4, I’m waiting for those toxic Yuri doujins, stat. Get to it!
Lilith
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As an SSR Berserker, Lilith already has a head start by being in the best class in the game by a good distance, but she manages to not let down the legacy of the home of Buster gorillas, having the 4th best Attack and tied 7th worse HP of any SSR Berserker. She might not be the best in either regard, but Berserkers scale more effectively with glass cannon stats, and Lilith definitely falls under that category with her monstrous Attack stat.
That isn’t everything to her, either. She packs the common passives of Madness Enhancement and Divinity, providing some minor boosts to her normal card damage, as well as her unique passive, Hatred, providing an Effective Damage boost against Living Human foes.
None of those passives are particularly standout, especially since the number of Living Human foes we face are pretty limited, since the trait is generally “good guy-coded”. Better than nothing, at the very least.
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With her BAAQQ card deck, Lilith goes against the mold of most Berserkers by lacking in Buster cards, and with her base NP gain of 0.4%, her 4-hit Arts cards bring home an incredibly mediocre 1.6 base Arts gain, essentially dead on average for a card deck with two Arts.
At the very least her Quicks pack 5 hits apiece, though that ultimately only keeps them at a similarly average NP gain value, rather than anything notable, and her Extra card ends up incredibly disappointing for NP gain as a result. 
Conversely, Lilith’s stargen is among the best for Berserkers, producing a large quantity of stars on almost all her cards in spite of the class’s low base generation rate. It lends well to her qualities as a Quick-focused Berserker, and she’ll certainly want to take advantage of the crits she enables to patch up her poor NP gain.
Skill 1
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First for Lilith’s skills is Like the Twinkling Night, a targeted debuffing skill. This drops an incredibly potent Charm on the target for 1 turn, as well as a 50% Critical Damage Resistance Down debuff for 3 turns, finishing off with a 30-star bomb.
Charm skills of this level of consistency are pretty rare, so it’ll only get stonewalled by Debuff Immunity rather than any passive debuff resistance the target has, and likewise the Critical Damage Resistance debuff is a roundabout boost to Lilith’s Critical Damage output that runs through the ups and downs of being a debuff instead of a buff. Letting her allies get in on the action is useful, but in certain fights this skill will just fall flat, and similarly sucks when not staring down a single foe.
With the star bomb factored in, it’s a great defensive tool and instant damage button that the whole team can capitalize, and it comes with a very generous 8-turn base cooldown, given many Stun/Charm skills are burdened with longer cooldowns.
Skill 2
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Next is Like Dancing Wings. This is your bog standard dual-card buffing skill, providing Lilith with a 30% Quick and Arts booster for 3 turns, as well as a dependable 2-hit, 3-turn Evasion buff.
Having those boosters to her primary card types also compensates for Lilith’s otherwise-mediocre NP gain, but naturally the damage boost is the biggest benefit, and you can’t say no to the safety of a long-lasting Evasion buff. With both it and her Charm in hand, Lilith is already pretty durable, and likewise her offensive output is off to a good start.
There’s little else to say for this skill - the 8-turn base cooldown could be seen as harsh given its relatively low power, but any skill with a hard defensive option like Evasion in it is liable to be slapped with an 8-turn base cooldown, so I’m not surprised, either.
Skill 3
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Like Unsightly Love is the last of Lilith’s skills, and thankfully one to cover many places she’s lacking. This skill is first and foremost her 50% gauge charger, something that’s especially important for a Quick Servant, given all the Skadi forms provide 50% gauge charge, making them easy to slot together.
But that’s not all, as Lilith also gets Invincible Pierce and a 30% Attack buff for 3 turns, at the cost of a 30% Mental Debuff Resistance Down debuff for the same duration. The offensive boost is all the better for Lilith’s damage dealing capabilities, and the long-lasting Invincible Pierce is great utility, albeit coming at the cost of more vulnerability to enemy debuffs like Charm or Terror.
This skill might be something of a grab-bag, but it’s a pretty good one. The 50% gauge charge is by far the most essential, but everything provided here is great to have on your resume. The 8-turn base cooldown lines up neatly with her other skills, and is to be expected for its overall power.
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Naturally, we have to get to Lilith’s NP eventually. Isha Ra’a is a Quick ST NP with a hell of a plethora of effects, though thankfully many of them are more or less cosmetic. 
I’ll get over the cosmetic effects first - after dealing damage, Lilith applies 1k Poison and Curse to the target for 3 turns, as well as slapping Evil and Chaotic alignment traits on them for the same duration. This doesn’t overwrite their existing alignments as far as I know, but the theme is clear: punch the enemy while they’re down and make them break their Paladin oath, too, should they happen to be playing DnD. Unless you decide to pair her with some niche Servants who can capitalise off these, there’s little point in talking more about them.
The first real effect to this NP is a duo of Effective Damage buffs applied to Lilith for 1 turn - 30% bonus damage against Good and Lawful alignment foes. These traits usually only matter for fighting Servants, but regardless hitting these two alignments is getting at least 30% bonus damage on well over half the Servant roster, and Lilith even scores the damage bonus for the whole chain, not just her NP.
That’s followed up by Lilith dishing out her damage, with a +50% damage modifier against Charmed targets, scaling with Overcharge. Having any built-in effective damage modifier on your NP is fantastic due to how it scales multiplicatively with other damage buffs, but ones like this that can be triggered on (almost) any enemy are especially good. The fact it’s locked to the cooldown of Lilith’s own Charm skill in most circumstances is a bit of a downer, but so long as you’re not staring down a Debuff-Immune asshole boss (looking at you, Junao) she gets a colossal damage boost every so often.
The last but not-to-be-undervalued part of this NP is a 20% Defense Down debuff on the target for 3 turns. Ramping damage is often used in reference to AOE NP’s in farming, but for a Servant like Lilith who’s so clearly geared for difficult content, continually plastering a boss with Defense drops is a great way to keep up offensive pressure.
How does her damage output shape up? With none of her effective damage boosts in play, but all her other skills active, she’s doing a base damage of 78k. To give a point of reference, a peak damage Jalter NP is doing 71k damage on a neutral target, though naturally Lilith does have Berserker class advantage on her side. Versus a Charmed target it leaps up to 117k, and 152k if they’re Good or Lawful on top of that. In a proper 50% gauge charge CE setup with two Summer Skadis, it isn’t unusual for Lilith to hit in the 500k damage range, depending on which Effective damage buffs apply, so she’s hardly lacking for power.
In terms of her NP spamming ability, Lilith nets a baseline refund of 4% gauge with her NP, jumping up to just barely 10% when she’s in a standard double Summer Skadi setup. Clearly there isn’t much hope for her NP alone to refill her gauge, but between her dual card boosters and copious star supply, she’s at least capable of netting NP gauge from crits in drawn-out fights. And obviously, the Quick card nature and 8 hits on this NP means you can depend on it for a star supply, too.
So how does Lilith perform on the whole? Well on one hand, she’s the Darkness incarnate, seductive secrecy, and d-damn, are those piercings?
+Lilith follows the typical formula for success in any ST Servant - focus on as many damage buffs from as many sources as possible. She packs an incredible array of offensive boosts that can apply to very common traits among bosses, and combined with both Invincible Pierce and the power of the Berserker class, she can square up against almost anyone and do incredible damage. That’s doubled up with her Critical Damage game, especially as her copious star generation enables some vicious critical chains that supplement and simultaneously charge up Lilith’s NP for more.
+Despite the reputation of the class, Lilith isn’t that frail on the whole. With her powerful Charm and Evasion skill on reasonable cooldowns, she can no-sell incoming damage for 2 turns every skill cycle, without even depending on the defensive capabilities of her supports. This may sound like an odd thing to focus on for such an aggressive Servant, but many Berserkers (such as fellow Quick ST Berserker MHXA) have great offensive capabilities then are left entirely stranded on the defensive front. This is doubly important for Quick Berserkers, who can’t depend on either Skadi form for particularly great defensive support.
However, she’s also a snake in the grass, the first harlot, and, worst of all, she insulted my favourite eggplant. Multiple times! Unforgivable:
-Lilith comes burdened with a few flaws that can be potentially devastating depending on how frequently they come up. First, as I’ve mentioned a lot, is the presence of bosses with permanent or near-permanent debuff immunity. Without the ability to slap debuffs on an enemy Lilith loses many of the best aspects of her kit, and starts to falter unlike some of her competitors in the same scenario. 
-The other flaw to Lilith is her shaky NP gain - in spite of all the perks she has to counteract it. The NP gain on her cards being average at best means she’s pretty dependent on the gauge charge of her supports to keep up her offense, since unlike some she won’t simply get a full gauge off of a good Arts crit or two. Since you’re taking Lilith to difficult content primarily, I won’t dismiss that the high defensive NP gain of Berserkers, 5% gauge per hit, can also counteract this, but it’ll present difficulty regardless.
In spite of the worrisome flaws plaguing her, Lilith hits the essential benchmarks that makes a ST Servant a valuable option for wrangling high difficulty content in the game. Her class and powerful baseline offense means she’s already of any other competing class, while even for a Berserker Lilith boasts potent offensive might, being able to hit hard and fast between both Crits and her NP while also punching past the most common obstacle in such content - Evasion and Invincible buffs.
It’s not just that she brings the power, but she also does so while covering her own hide, between her dependable Charm debuff and long-lasting Evasion. Where other hyper-offensive Berserkers might need a more defensively aligned Support or two to ensure they don’t blow up on the first enemy turn, Lilith can securely establish her own safety net and rely more on the offensive buffs of her team to punch through Gauge Breaks.
Throw in some of the random quirks she can support like turning any boss into an Evil one for Luvia to fly off the top rope for the Effective Damage NP one-two, and she manages to be fun and effective, if occasionally utterly stonewalled by Debuff Immunity. Her hard focus on tackling difficult content over farming does mean she focuses on a more narrow subset of the game, but if you need reliable and hard-hitting offense you can hardly go wrong with her. Rath™ Seal of Approval.
Outro
With that, we’re truly done with a vital chapter of FGO’s second part. For the Main Story all that lies ahead is the establishment of the Grand Servant system and the finale, but this year is still packing a lot to be excited for - the collab event which somehow evaded Golden Week, and the 10 Year Anniversary and subsequent Summer event on the horizon.
We’ll probably have a long break before any of those, but…gotta look forward to something, no?