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With a base NP gain of 0.38% and a BBAAQ card deck, Beni-Enma’s 3-hit Arts cards come out to a base Arts gain of 1.14, something that is frankly rather pathetic. There are Servants with worse NP gain out there, but it’s not really a race you want to be…let me check…18th place in. Ideally that number should be at least 3 digits.

As a result of this dreadful base NP gain, her Busters and Quick card are similarly poor for NP gain, and her Extra really is nothing to write home about for, either.

She’s not really winning points for star generation, either. She only has a single Quick card to her name, and even with her Presence Concealment, the base Star Generation of the Berserker class means she’s not producing much off of her higher base hitcount cards, either.

No matter how you slice it, Beni-Enma will need help for both NP gain and star generation.

Skill 1

For once in this Article series, I have to admit the first skill in the lineup is by far the most impactful and complicated one. Sorry, no “last but not least” this time.

The aptly-named Dizzying Banquet is a rotating buffet of various effects that goes down them in numerical order, providing an assortment of buffs for the team as well as a 30-star bomb on use, at the cost of raising the team’s Fullness Gauge by 2, then starting at the beginning again when you use the last buff in the list.

I’m not going to break down all the individual effects of the skill, you can look at that yourself, but the important thing is that the first use provides a 20% Attack buff for the whole party for 3 turns, and the third use will provide the party with a 20% gauge charge.

Ah yeah, I almost forgot to mention - this skill is Beni-Enma cheffing up a meal for the party each time you use it, and naturally you can’t eat when full. If an ally’s Fullness Gauge is maxed out, they won’t benefit from any buffs off this skill (though you still get the Critical Stars), which means burning off the Fullness Gauge becomes all the more important.

That goes doubly so considering this skill’s cooldown is an insanely short 3 turns at base, making it a 1-turn cooldown at max level. With the Skill Cooldown Reduction append skill, you can fire off the first two meals on the first turn, both getting those benefits real fast, and filling your team’s stomachs instantly.

The last thing is that there’s a hidden 7th meal that has a 5% chance of applying on the very first use of this skill that applies every single effect on the list at once, then completely fills the party’s Fullness Gauge. While that isn’t going to apply often, it is a fantastic windfall when it does happen, so keep an eye out for it, since you might have to change your card selections to compensate for it.

So, all in all, this thing is a fantastic font of team buffs that has to be tempered by careful card selection to keep your party raring for more food. Fantastic thematically, a nightmare to plan around in practice.

Skill 2

Next up in line is Sparrow’s Birdbath, a thankful respite from the complexity of the prior skill.

This is a combo of a dual-card buff and defensive tool, providing 30% Arts and Buster Up to Beni-Enma for 3 turns, as well as a 3-hit Evasion and 50% Critical Damage Up buff for the same duration.

To get all these buffs in one is fantastic, especially given how much Beni-Enma needs boosts to her NP gain, and the 3-hit Evasion is particularly uncommon, providing a pervasive level of protection against attacks over time. I won’t ignore the Critical Damage boost, either, having strong synergy with the huge Critical Star bomb she gets to drop every turn.

All these bombs come at a cost, however - she decreases her Fullness Gauge by 2. Wait a second, that’s not a cost, that’s a benefit! While she can’t convey the same perk to her allies, Beni-Enma gets to burn some extra energy to fit more meals, a true chef’s perk, meaning even if she doesn’t use her own attacks to cut down on the gauge, she has some leeway to continue benefitting from her meals.

With a base cooldown of 8 turns, this thing is a departure from the ultra-short cooldowns, but it’s probably for the better. It’s still a fantastic improvement to Beni-Enma’s damage output and durability for its cooldown.

Skill 3

Rounding off this kit is Headhunting Elder’s Pincushion Sword.

As the last piece of the puzzle, this skill is the mandatory 50% gauge charger for an SSR, providing that much gauge charge on use, while also conferring some solid offensive benefits - a 20% NP Strength Up buff for 3 turns, and a second 20% NP Strength Buff for 3 turns that only applies while Beni-Enma’s Fullness Gauge is empty.

Given how you want to be dishing out the, uh, dishes as often as possible, it’s hard to set up this additional damage boost, but in farming scenarios you do have the option to delay the second use of her multi-course meals to keep her Fullness Gauge at 0 for the first NP of the battle. Past that, it’s really down to card selection.

Oh, and she also applies a buff to herself that puts a 100% Instant Death effect on her NP for 3 turns, but unless you’re failing to meet damage benchmarks in farming, there’s not much value in that effect, so I’m essentially ignoring it.

With another base cooldown of 8 turns, this skill is pretty standard for gauge charger skills, with a pretty nice damage bonus tacked on, though it’s nothing that exceptional overall.

To finish off this practical feast, we have Beni-Enma’s NP, Juuou Manpuku Tzuzura no Enkai. That one’s an ACTUAL feast.

As an Arts AOE NP, this thing has capability for farming, but there’s a load of effects to break down at the same time, so I’ll cover that first.

Before dealing damage, Beni-Enma applies a 50% Effective Damage versus Undead buff to herself for 1 turn, then performs the attack, dealing AOE damage with a +50% Super-Effective Modifier against Evil alignment foes. Breaking this down first, this combo of Effective Damage is a staple and stinker in one, with Undead foes being particularly uncommon, and unlikely to appear in cases where the bonus damage actually helps, given there’s zero Undead Servants in the game, and very few threatening Undead story bosses.

Conversely, anti-Evil effectiveness is superb, providing a significant multiplicative damage boost against one of the most common traits in the game, one particularly frequenting major story bosses and Servants in general, meaning it WILL be applied in scenarios where the bonus damage matters. While it’s a shame the bonus doesn’t have overcharge scaling, it remains a fantastic trait to have on your NP.

The benefits don’t stop there, either. This NP also cleanses all ailment debuffs (Poison, Curse, Burn) and Defense Debuffs from the team on use, while also providing a handy-dandy buff that increases their Fullness Gauge maximum by 4 steps for 5 turns. While this buff sadly can’t stack on itself, it does mean your leeway for feeding the party gets much larger, while Supergiant allies can eat the full course without needing to make a single attack.

The last benefits are far from insignificant, either, providing a 1k-3k HP Up buff to the party for 5 turns as well as 10-30% gauge charge, scaling with Overcharge. On a NP that’s (spoilers for 1 paragraph ahead) very spammable, the continuous healing and gauge charge from this NP is a superb boon for the party.

With that out of the way, let’s inspect the damage output and farming potential of this NP. With just her own buffs in play, Beni-Enma’s NP is dealing a whopping 30k damage on a neutral target, not factoring in the typical 1.5x Class Advantage Berserkers get. That’s an absurdly high damage output for an AOE NP, owing to the class’s high attack stat and solid offensive steroids she gets at her disposal. If you give her the class advantage boost and anti-Evil effectiveness it becomes 67k damage, a really overwhelming amount of damage to deal with an AOE NP and no external aid.

As for the refund, she’s in a similarly fantastic place. With her own buffs in effect she’s getting 31% refund from her NP hitting 3 targets, and that’s BEFORE the bonus 10% gauge charge she gets at a minimum from its effects. With double Castoria (or really any combination of Castoria/Archer of Apocalypse/Summer Tiamat), Beni-Enma is capable of getting a full gauge refund from just using her NP each turn, it’s really absurd.

So the looping is a given, let’s look at her damage with a Black Grail and double Castoria. On wave 1, she’s dishing out 175k damage with her Berserker class advantage factored in, while wave 2’s damage is essentially the same (since you can drop all the Castoria damage buffs on turn 1). On wave 3, she’s dealing about 236k damage, since she gets both Mystic Code damage buffs and the NP Strength Up buff from her first skill on that turn (assuming you have the Append Skill for it).

You don’t need me to tell you that’s universal farmer-level damage, but it also blows the damage of Ibuki-Douji’s Berserker form out of the water, if neither gets their effective damage. That comes with the caveat that Earth-attribute is generally more common than Evil-alignment, but it remains impressive nonetheless.

In difficult content, you get to benefit from that incredible damage output, plus the effective damage bonus much of the time, on top of the continual team support this NP provides…it’s absurd.

With a BBBAQ card deck and a base NP gain of 0.78%, Kingprotea is very emblematic of the typical NP gain profile for Buster Gorillas, coming in with a base Arts gain of 2.34 off of her 3-hits Arts card, a little above average for that card deck.

Her other cards are largely mixed bags for NP gauge generation, with a solid 4-hit Quick card and mediocre Busters for NP gain, accompanied by a good, standard, 5-hit Extra card.

She’s not particularly proficient on the star generation side of the equation, with her Busters only having 3 hits to their name, but her Quick and Extra cards are at least decent for stargen when they’re involved in a chain.

Skill 1

First for Kingprotea’s skill kit is Grown Up Menu! This skill forces me to shout when I talk about it!

The simplest part of this skill’s effects are the ones you come to expect on SSR Servants - a 50% gauge charge for Kingprotea herself on use, as well as a 30% Attack Up buff, and her calling card of Max HP Up, providing a hefty 5k buffer of HP for the same 3-turn duration as the Attack buff.

While those effects on their own are great, this skill also comes with a neat little dichotomy, providing her with 30% Effective Damage against both Good and Evil alignment foes for 3 turns, too. Unless you’re modifying the opposition’s alignments via Lilith, you can only net one of these boosts in damage at a time, but the odds of getting one of them boosting your damage against story bosses or Servants is incredibly high, as Neutral alignment is the rarest, though not by a large margin.

So this shapes up to be a fantastic damage steroid skill that comes with the standard gauge charger, while also packing that minor boost to durability in a form that Kingprotea is known for. The 8-turn base cooldown on this skill is pretty standard for the power of this skill.

Skill 2

Next in line is Insect Search. Anybody who has read the CCC Foxtail manga knows full well what being an “Insect” hunted by Kingprotea looks like, and boy it isn’t as thrilling as Nasu probably thinks it is.

This skill naturally turns the hunt upon Kingprotea’s enemies, providing her with Sure Hit, a 30% Buster Up buff, and a 50% Critical Damage Up buff for 3 turns. The boost to damage output and consistency in landing blows is great, but the true identifier of this skill is the buff it applies to Kingprotea for 3 turns - one that removes 1 buff from the enemy every time she lands a normal attack, and slaps the enemy struck with the Target Lock debuff for 3 turns.

Dependable buff removal is always a great perk to have, and the Target Lock debuff, as you might expect at this point with how many modern Servants are designed, pays off in more damage down the line. It certainly helps that the Buster and Critical Damage boosts encourage you to put Kingprotea’s normal cards to use, synergizing with the technical drawback that using normal cards can often be. We’d all spam NP’s every turn if our gauges allowed it, let’s be frank.

With a base cooldown of 8 turns, this skill is aligned with Kingprotea’s existing skill cooldowns, though the overall power of this one is relatively low.

Skill 3

Last and, regrettably, a skill I have to acknowledge the existence of is Kaiju Baby. Don’t worry, before long she’ll be destroying skyscrapers while 6-7’ing like the rest of her generation, be proud of her.

This skill provides a plethora of selfish buffs to Kingprotea herself - Debuff Immunity, 3-time Invincible and a 15 Critical Stars-per-turn buff for 3 turns. She even gets a 15-star bomb on skill use to get those stars rolling immediately.

The biggest buff of this skill, however, is the 3-turn Buff that makes Kingprotea’s Buster attacks apply a 10% Defense Down debuff before damage for 3 turns. While it might seem like a minute boost on paper, it will apply to the targets of her NP before the damage lands, and can stack as often as she can put out Buster attacks, which is fairly often given her BBBAQ card deck.

I shouldn’t exactly downplay the other benefits, either. Blanket Debuff Immunity for 3 turns is a pretty rare perk, and when paired with an Invincible buff, it’ll be very hard for the enemy to take down Kingprotea. The critical stars are also excellent for fuelling her solid critical damage output, so it’s a win on all fronts for this skill.

The only flaw to this skill is its 9-turn base cooldown, putting it out of alignment with the other skills, besides just being a long cooldown overall.

To wrap up Kingprotea’s kit, we have her NP, Daibocchi King Dive, a Buster AOE NP. So I’ll be glancing into the damage output of this thing, given we already know she can Buster NP loop from her 50% gauge charger.

But let’s look into the effects - before dealing damage, Kingprotea gets a duo of buffs, a 10-30% NP Strength Up buff (scaling with Overcharge) for 3 turns, as well as a further 20% NP Strength Up buff for 1 turn if she has another Supergiant ally on the field. Intended to pair her with her subsequent sister, Kingprotea Alter, it does also allow her to pair nicely with a limited selection of other giantesses, such as BB Dubai and her Mooncancer-specific buffs, or the general supportive utility of Tiamat’s forms or Metatron.

After those buffs comes the damage, Buster AOE with a +50% Effective Damage bonus against Target Locked foes built into it. That’s not the end of it, either, as Kingprotea proceeds to apply a 20% Defense Down debuff to all enemies for 3 turns, and turn the field to Near Water for 5 turns.

That’s a lot of damage boosts, yeesh. With not one, but TWO ramping damage boosts built into it, technically three if you include her skill kit. Even if she’s missing the endless growth gimmick of her original form, her damage output definitely feels like it’s growing indefinitely.

Speaking of which, let’s observe her damage output with this NP. With just her own buffs live, Kingprotea is dealing 26k damage neutral with this NP, but that’s assuming you just fire it immediately at the start of a chain on the first turn. With the Target Lock debuff live, that bumps up to a meaty 39.5k damage, and it only gets better over time, as successive NP’s stack up more NP Strength Up and Defense Down debuffs to further crush the enemy, rather literally.

Placed in a standard double Koyanskaya farming setup with Oberon tagging in, she’s dealing 58k damage neutral on wave 1, 71k on wave 2, and something in the ballpark of 244k damage neutral on wave 3, when Oberon gets to play. I’ll be frank, it’s not particularly great damage output, given almost every Buster Servant hits that hard with Oberon backing them on the 3rd wave, but farming is where Kingprotea loses a lot of her strengths. Those numbers are without the Target Lock damage bonus, or her anti-Good/Evil bonuses, since those aren’t dependable to get for farming. In scenarios where she’s NP’ing the same enemy successively for those same 3 turns, and it’s a Good or Evil aligned foe, her damage output on turn 3 more than doubles in the same conditions, dishing out a lethal 531k damage to a neutral target. The degree to which her Defense Down debuffs escalate her damage really can’t be understated.

Essentially, she’s serviceable for farming, but not close to being a universal farmer, with her specialties definitely lying toward difficult content.

With a base NP gain of 0.3%, Biscione’s BAAAQ card deck is largely crippled by her base Arts gain of 0.945, her passive NP gain boost hardly helping redeem her abysmal 3-hit Arts cards. You might remember I said that Beni-Enma Berserker’s NP gain is pretty bad, and she barely escapes being in the bottom 20 Servants for NP gain on their regular cards.

Well Biscione, on paper, is the single worst Servant for her NP gain in the game. Please congratulate her as she receives her paper crown.

The “on paper” part is doing a lot of lifting, though. That title doesn’t factor in her 5% NP gain boost passive, which brings her up to 6th-worst instead, and her count of 3 Arts cards means she’s better off than a lot of Servants, due to the frequent ability to benefit from Arts chain bonuses. But it is funny that she’s breaking a boundary of poor NP gain that was set and maintained by Kiritsugu years ago.

As you’d expect from such an awful base NP gain, all her other cards are also abysmal for NP gain, and she’s even not particularly good at star generation, with her BAAAQ card deck lacking in the cards that excel at it, and her 4 hits apiece on all her other cards not being particularly outstanding for stargen.

Let’s hope she’s got some redeeming qualities, shall we?

First up on the skill lineup is Summer Business Traveller, a pretty direct NP gauge charge skill. This provides Biscione with 30% NP gauge upon use, as well as a 10% NP gauge per turn buff for 3 turns. That pans out to an abnormal 60% gauge charge in one skill (well, for an SR Servant), albeit spread out over multiple turns.

That isn’t everything, either, as Biscione also gets a 1-time Buff Removal Immunity for 3 turns, insulating her against the most demoralizing effect more difficult fights can throw your way, and protecting her slow-burn NP gauge charge.

There’s little to say outside of gauge charging being great to have - the benefits of this skill are simple, but certainly effective. The 8-turn cooldown is also rather standard for the power of its gauge charge, so no complaints there.

Next in her skillset is Tooth Fishing. With far more effects to sink your teeth into, this skill provides the team with a combo of 20% Arts Up and 30% Critical Damage Up for 3 turns, as well as a 30% Effective Damage buff against Poisoned targets for 3 turns.

As you can probably expect, other parts of Biscione’s kit are very effective at building up Poison, so this skill alone is providing a very sizable boost to the entire team’s damage output, as well as assisting with Biscione’s very bad, no good, NP gain on her Arts cards.

The effects on this skill don’t end there, either, as Biscione provides a further 20% Arts Up buff for 3 turns if the field is Near Water, and she applies a useful 15 stars-per-turn buff to herself for 3 turns, meaning benefitting from that Critical Damage buff is much easier.

Overall, the offensive boosts from this skill are fantastic, and Biscione even lets her teammates get in on the benefits. For a 8-turn base cooldown skill, that’s one heck of a deal, and it keeps in line with her prior skill’s cooldown.

Last for the skills on the table is At the Spring of Thebes. This skill has one goal and one goal only - ensuring you get the Poison special damage boost from the rest of this gal’s kit.

Okay, that’s a lie, it also provides Biscione with a 20% Attack Up buff for 3 turns, but it does that in addition to applying Poison to all enemies for 5 turns, applying a special Effective Damage buff against Poison to Biscione herself for 3 turns that improves her damage by 10% per Poison stack, up to 10 stacks for 100%, applying a buff that makes Biscione inflict Poison with her attacks before damage for 3 turns, and lastly a timer-based buff that inflicts Poison on every enemy at the start of each turn for the next 2 turns.

This might be a long shot, but I think the Spring of Thebes might have a lot of poison in it.

All jokes aside, the Attack Up buff is great, and similarly this combo of Poison related perks both ensures Biscione’s team is getting the prior Effective damage boost, as well as this new buff on top to herself, providing a very large damage boost as she continues to build up Poison on her opposition. The number of Poison sources this provides is also important, as each individual application is an extra 10% damage from that buff.

With all that in mind, it’s great this skill is also on a relatively short 8-turn base cooldown, perfectly aligned with the remainder of her skill kit.

All that toxic treatment has to lead to something good (or at least, that’s how I handle my relationships, please help), and Biscione’s NP is no different - Draconic Spartoi is an Arts AOE NP, and the primary culprit behind her abysmal base NP gain. Naturally that means she’ll have her looping potential evaluated, but that requires also inspecting its effects.

Before dealing damage, this NP provides a duo of buffs to Biscione - the first, a 10-30% Arts Up buff (Scaling with Overcharge) for 3 turns, a very formidable ramping damage steroid that also improves her NP refund. The second, far more complex, is a 1-turn Buff to herself that, through a weird set of hoops, drains the enemies’ NP gauge by 1 step when she hits with her NP, and if those targets are poisoned, she gains 10% NP gauge charge for each…I think. I don’t personally have her in-game to test if it’s 10% NP gauge for hitting 3 Poisoned foes, or 30%, but I looked up some footage and reverse-engineered the NP refund from a NP, and 10% for each Poisoned target seems to be correct, which is a LOT of free NP gauge.

At any rate, that’s followed by the damage, a regular AOE Arts attack with no special frills, but Biscione then proceeds to apply a 20% Defense Down and Corroding Poison (+100% to Poison Damage) to the targets struck for 3 turns. Considering the copious damage boosts already at her disposal, the addition of even more ramping damage boosts when striking the same foes is pretty silly.

With that all in mind, we can look into her damage output and refund. With her own buffs live on turn 1, Biscione should be dealing about 20k damage neutral with her NP. That’s neither particularly good or bad for an SR Servant (doubly so for a Caster), but it is also Biscione on the turn she will be dealing the least possible damage - subsequent NP’s on the same target will do 28k damage neutral, 38k, and so on…and that’s assuming she’s not using her regular cards to stack up even more Poison on a specific target for more bonus damage. The real stand-out from her NP is the refund, though - she gets a baseline refund of 30% with her own buffs live, and if she’s hitting 3 Poisoned targets, she gets a further 30% gauge, resulting in an absurd 60% refund without any outside assistance. I can confirm with just 2 Castorias buffing her, that refund ends up being 110% as a bare minimum. She might legitimately be the first Servant capable of getting a 200% refund from their NP alone if you really do an absurd buff stack.

With that in mind, let’s inspect Biscione’s Black Grail farming performance, since it’s not like she’d want any other CE. On wave 1 she’s dealing 80k damage neutral, on wave 2 it’s 83k, and on wave 3 it’s something around 107k neutral, depending on Mystic Code choice. While that might not be able to cut it for universal farming, she’s more than capable of tackling farming with Class Advantage.

You might be wondering why the numbers are ultimately a little underwhelming despite Biscione having an Effective damage buff that scales up to +100% in her kit. Well, besides the fact that bonus isn’t getting any higher than +20% in a farming scenario, buff-based Effective damage bonuses like Biscione’s stack additively with NP Strength Up buffs, instead of scaling multiplicatively like ones inherent to a NP’s damage do. This means she’s not benefitting anywhere near as much as other Servants tend to do from a Black Grail.