MMM - Marie, Merrily Migrating to Mediterranean Miracle, Marvels at Massive Mammaries on Majorly-Maligned Maiden (Summer 2025 Part 1)

On the NP gain side of things, Passionlip comes in with a base NP gain of 0.55%, which in her BBBAQ card deck and 4-hit Arts card results in a base Arts gain of 2.2. That’s dead-on for the average of Servants with single-Arts card decks, so we’ll have to examine elsewhere to be impressed by her NP gain.

Unfortunately, her Buster cards, her most plentiful type, do barely anything for NP gain, and her Quick is fairly good at 5 hits, but that’s shared with her 5-hit Extra card, which essentially means she has mediocre NP gain across the board. And for a BBBAQ card deck, that means fairly unreliable NP gain off of her normal cards.

As for star generation, Passionlip is in a decent state. Her hitcounts are reasonable across the board and her passive Star Generation is pretty high, so she can supply her own critical stars in a pinch. That extra 2 stars per turn from her passive is minor, but also helps in this regard.

So thus far, Passionlip is shaping up to be very middle-of-the-road.

Skill 1

First on Passionlip’s skill lineup is...Breast Pouch. As in, the bag she has positioned across the front of her torso. What else did you think it was?

…At any rate, this skill follows Passionlip’s general design focus by being a Taunt skill, applying Taunt to herself for 3 turns, as well as a buff that gives her a 10% Attack Up buff for 3 turns each time she’s hit for the same 3-turn duration, up to 5 times total. But that’s not all - Passionlip also gets a new unique buff effect, Damage Absorption, which nullifies a percentage of incoming damage and converts it into healing for 1 turn. At max skill level, this becomes 100%, meaning the buff essentially provides Passionlip with complete invulnerability and a huge chunk of healing based on how much she takes in.

And if that all weren’t enough, this skill also provides a 20% NP gauge charge to all of Passionlip’s allies...except herself. Change her outfit as you may, Passionlip is incapable of acting in self interest, I guess.

This is an excellent skill overall, providing protection to Passionlip’s allies over multiple turns while converting it into advantage, up to a hefty 50% Attack Up buff, though it comes with a hefty base cooldown of 9 turns. Given Passionlip’s capability to convert a deadly attack into a full heal on a whim, I suppose it’s a fair cost, especially with a team gauge charger tied in.

Skill 2

Next up is Trash & Crush, the Passionlip classic. This skill provides Passionlip with a hefty combo of 30% Buster Up and Defense Pierce for 3 turns, as well as a 3-turn Buff that causes Passionlip’s next attack to have a 70% Stun chance, though it only applies once.

The most important part of this skill is, sadly, the most boring, providing a 50% gauge charge to Passionlip herself. The necessary part of SSR Servants nowadays, but it certainly pairs well with the combo of buffs that will bolster her NP’s offensive power in the same turn.

It’s an offensive boost that also provides utility in a Stun (that you can theoretically save and fire later? I’m not sure that’s particularly useful), and the all-important gauge charge that simply makes Passionlip convenient to use. It comes with the same, long, 9-turn cooldown as before, but it is also pretty strong for a gauge charger, so it’s fair.

Skill 3

Last for Passionlip’s kit is Princess Order, which is…pretty complex.

It’s a targeted skill that provides a different plethora of effects depending on whether you select an ally for its target, or Passionlip herself. When used on an ally, it provides the Prince Charming buff for 3 turns, which comes with it a huge +100% boost to Critical Damage, 20 Critical Stars every turn, a colossal boost to Critical Star Absorption, Defensive class advantage against the 7 basic classes (like a Ruler), and a 20-star bomb on use.

When used on Passionlip herself, she gains the Princess of Courage buff for 3 turns, which comes packaged with +30% NP Strength, 20% NP gauge each turn, a duo of 1-time Guts and 1-time Debuff Immunity, and a big boost to Instant Death Resistance.

While both of these separate effects are a lot to parse, the bottom line is Passionlip’s self-target gives her a bunch of useful defensive tools and a boost to her NP spam and damage output, while on an ally it boosts their capability for critical damage immensely while also protecting them from damage.

Having versatility in your kit like this is great, and even when used exclusively for Passionlip’s benefit this skill provides a sizable boost to her own offense and defense, so it’s hard to complain about this. The 8-turn base cooldown is also pretty short for this skill’s power, so that’s appreciated.

Rounding things off here is Passionlip’s NP, Parvati Grancia. It remains eternally funny that Passionlip’s NP’s are directly named after the Servants that make her a High Servant, but boy you wouldn’t be able to tell without the name. I fail to see the Brynhildr in her “Brynhildr Romantia” as much as the Parvati in this NP.

In any case, this is a single-target Buster NP, one that’s pretty easy to digest. Before dealing damage, this NP removes all buffs from the target enemy and simultaneously provides a 10% Buster Boost to Passionlip for 1 turn, scaling further with Overcharge. The on-use damage steroid is pretty weak, but appreciated nonetheless, while the buff removal is far more important, allowing Passionlip to pierce most defensive buffs on the target and reset their established buffs to zero, the utility of which speaks for itself.

Following that, Passionlip does her damage, with an effective damage multiplier of +50% against Supergiant trait targets, and a 60% Instant Death chance.

The Supergiant trait isn’t that common, since among Servants it only covers those who fulfil Nasu’s giantess fetish, and for NPC’s, the trait is surprisingly common, but only across story bosses and “miniboss”-type enemies, pretty much anything that’s larger than a car probably has the trait. While this limits its effectiveness against normal Servants, it is pretty damn likely to get the multiplier on single-target farming nodes or major story bosses…since well, nothing is a greater spectacle than a very big baddie to down.

And yes, I’m ignoring the Instant Death chance, it is utterly incapable of contributing anything worthwhile at a 60% base odds with no way to boost it. Versus most enemies that could survive Passionlip’s NP, they’re either immune or the death chance is less than 1%.

So instead let’s look at her damage output. With her own buffs played selfishly, Passionlip is dishing out a pretty mediocre 44k damage neutral, well below the expected amount for a single-target Servant. Though that is, of course, just using all her buffs on turn 1. Assuming you use her NP on turn 3 after having taken 5 hits from enemies using her Taunt, Passionlip’s NP will instead be hitting for a hefty 66k damage neutral. And naturally, that’s without the effective damage bonus against Supergiant trait foes.

It’s also worth noting Passionlip can perform a 3-turn loop with a double Koyanskaya setup and Oberon switched in, albeit requiring the cooldown reduction append skill maxed out for it to function. I say that, but given Passionlip’s mediocre damage output without giving the enemy a few turns to smack her, it’s a poor use of her talents, and she’s genuinely more adept in difficult content where having to endure the enemy’s regular attacks is a given.

With a base NP gain of 0.48% and a BBAAQ card deck, Kriemhild’s 4-hit Arts cards dish out a reasonably good 1.92 base Arts gain, solidly above average, but nothing exceptional either. In the same boat, her 5-hit Quick card is good for NP gain, and her Extra card barely cuts above the average for NP gain. She might be packing a high hitcount Arts card that I dislike, as always, but she does have sufficient hitcounts elsewhere to not be burdened by it.

As for stargen, Kriemhild lacks the card deck to be superb at it, but her Quick card is very good at star generation, if nothing else, She’s largely going to have to look to external sources for star supply.

Skill 1

First of Kriemhild’s skills is High-Class Lady’s Dignity. This is a fairly traditional dual-card buffing skill, providing Kriemhild herself with a +20% Arts Up, Buster Up, and NP Gain Up buff for 3 turns. None of the numbers are that high, but getting them in combination results in significantly better NP gain and some solid damage boosts.

The second component to this skill is straightforward but useful, a 2-time 3-turn Invincible buff. Any kind of defensive tool you can just put on to soak damage is good, and this one’s as good as any. The 8-turn base cooldown on this skill is about a given since it has an Invincible buff, not much else to say.

Skill 2

Next up is Shark Charisma. Boy, does the average Vtuber fan know about that.

Unsurprisingly, this skill provides a 20% Attack Up buff to the team for 3 turns, with an additional 50% Critical Damage Up buff to Chaotic alignment allies for the same duration. Kriemhild herself benefits from this, as well as your average VTuber collab, which is fitting.

…Though looking it up, our poster girl online idol in Phantasmoon isn’t Chaotic alignment, so maybe there are exceptions.

Staying on topic, this skill also provides a 15-star bomb on use, and the same number of stars for 3 turns. Conveniently, this skill both fixes Kriemhild’s star supply issues while also providing a pair of offensive buffs to use them on, with her Rider class star weight also doing its job in soaking up the stars.

It’s unassuming, and maybe a little undertuned, but this skill does at least provide Kriemhild with further offensive power, and potentially some team support in the right compositions. It’s a shame it’s packing a 8-turn base cooldown, longer than typical Charisma skills for no real reason.

Skill 3

Last of Kriemhild’s skills is Noble Lady’s Verbal Barbs. This skill is as all-encompassing and harsh as an Ojou-sama’s bullying in a magical high school, to provide an apt comparison.

Upon use, Kriemhild strips all enemies of their Buffs, and simultaneously gets a respectable 30% gauge charge, and a 30% NP Strength Up buff to all Chaotic alignment allies for 3 turns. Once again, this is essentially a selfish buff to Kriemhild with potential supportive expansion based on team composition.

The benefits it provides aren’t bad at all - blanket buff removal is useful, though the nature of this skill as a gauge charger and damage buff means it’s unlikely to be useful on the first application. Conversely, this skill’s damage boost to, and prop-up for, Kriemhild’s NP is fantastic, opening up the avenue for NP looping and a significant boost to her damage output when in the right company.

Much like her other skills, this comes at an 8-turn base cooldown, though it’s very much deserved for its power.

Closing off Kriemhild’s kit is Ritter der Ozeane, a German NP name that I could translate without using any tools. Huzzah for German knowledge that’s over a decade old!

These knights of the ocean are obviously a parody to the Knights of the Round Table, though thinking about it, it’s hilarious this is the first time we’ve had a NP in FGO that’s a direct analogue to the Knights of the Round Summon from Final Fantasy, with all of them jumping in to have a piece of the enemy. The animation doesn’t take multiple minutes, thankfully.

This is a Buster ST NP with…as many effects as there are knights, which unsurprisingly is 12. Kriemhild starts off dishing out her damage, with an Effective damage multiplier against Lawful foes that scales with Overcharge. While alignment-based effective damage is usually pretty good, Lawful is sadly the worst one to target, with fewer Servants packing it than Chaotic, Good, or Evil, and among regular enemies only Good is more uncommon. Unsurprisingly, difficult story bosses tend to be Evil or Chaotic, otherwise they’d be on our side (with several exceptions). She can still punch a good portion of the Servant roster hard, but she definitely could have better effective damage at her disposal.

Then after that, Kriemhild plasters the target with 11 debuffs - a 10% Decrease to Debuff Resistance, Attack, Defense, Quick Resist, Arts Resist, Buster Resist, Critical Strength, and Critical Rate for 3 turns, as well as the trio of Damage over time debuffs at a pathetic 200 damage for 3 turns. Notably this is one of the few sources of Critical Strength down debuffs that can be applied to an enemy in the game, though other Servants like Qin Lianyu or Assassin of Shinjuku are better at slapping the enemy with it.

The last little cherry on top is a bonus 5 critical stars, how sweet. All in all, the debuffs on this skill are pretty scarily good, providing a notable stacking boost to damage against the target as well as slowly neutering their damage output, though obviously the value in the effects are spread thin.

As for how hard Kriemhild hits, with her own buffs live she’s smacking for 35k damage neutral, fairly typical for an SR Servant. In a looping setup with a 50% gauge CE, double Koyanskaya and Oberon in the rear, she’s doing a far more impressive 80k neutral on waves 1 and 2, then a whopping 387k damage neutral when Oberon hops in. The earlier wave damage probably isn’t good enough for universal farming, but she can certainly hit like a truck if she needs to. And that’s not even factoring in hitting her Lawful alignment effectiveness.

With a base NP gain of 0.51% and a BBAQQ card deck, Huyan’s 4-hit Arts card produces…

Okay seriously, at this point I’m tempted to go back through the past 50 Servants or so and count how many have 4-5 hits on their Arts card. Like, sheesh. Just seeing 3 in a row with similar hitcounts and base NP gain is really getting to me. It’s not like I’m asking for every Servant to have amazing NP gain, I just wish we could have more individuality on this, like how OG Scathach has poor Quick card NP gain but incredible Arts/Buster card NP gain, despite being Quick focused. Or Orion having an infamously bad Arts card but really good Quick/Extra card NP gain.

Hah…rant over. In any case, it comes out to a base Arts gain of 2.04, a little under average for a single-Arts card deck. This carries on to her Quick cards being pretty poor for NP gain, her Extra card coming out average as well. At the very least her Busters are better than typical for NP gain.

Conversely, with her card deck and high hitcounts, Huyan is great at star generation, even with the Berserker class’s poor star generation holding her back. That can compensate somewhat for her NP gain by getting the bonus NP gauge off crits, but her low star weight may prove an obstacle.

First for Huyan’s skill set is Prestige Star of Heaven (Summer). This skill is very similar to the rendition in her base form, exchanging Invincible Pierce for 3-turn Defense Pierce, but similarly providing a solid 30% Attack Up to herself for 3 turns, and a large boost to her star weight for a single turn.

While the utility of Defense Pierce is limited, it is nice to have, and the immediate answer to her low star weight means she can get consistent crits, if only for one turn every now and then. The most important part is the straight boost to Huyan’s damage output, which means on the whole this skill is pretty bare. Any damage boost is good, but especially for the 8-turn base cooldown this skill is saddled with, you’d hope to have a bit more on the table.

Next up is Summer Self-Esteem Issues. Imagine having Mental Health so bad that it manifests as a skill on your Servant sheet, yeesh.

This skill is a straightforward card booster skill, providing Huyan with a baseline of 20% Quick Up for 3 turns, but with a bonus buff that lets you improve this immensely. Much like the mechanic established with Indra, for 3 turns Huyan will get a 10% Quick booster buff for 3 turns each time she receives a healing or Max HP Up effect, excluding Command Codes, CE’s, and regen.

Unlike Indra, Huyan doesn’t actually have a way to trigger this herself, but there are a number of abusable team heal effects that can trigger this multiple times, or just the healing skill on most Mystic Codes. Heck, even the best Mystic Code in the game (author’s opinion), Chaldea Uniform - Decisive Battle, has a heal, so you will always at least net a bonus 10% out of this skill.

The last and arguably best part of this skill is a straightforward 2-time, 3-turn Evasion buff, significantly helping Huyan avoid being one-shot with her frail defenses. When combined with supports’ defensive tools, she’ll likely not have to suffer the flaws of her class, and only reap the advantages. Though it’s a shame this skill is similarly saddled with a 8-turn base cooldown.

Last for Huyan’s skill kit is Chained Horses (Possession), a direct reference to the military strategy she employed in her legend of tying a cavalry charge together with chains to make evasion of their attack more difficult, and prevent the charge from being broken by a stray rider. I imagine it sounds incredibly intimidating, too.

This skill matches its ferocious legend, providing an all-important 30% gauge charge on use, as well as an overwhelming +100% Critical Damage buff for 1 turn, and a +30% Critical Damage buff for 3 turns. In just a single turn, she can dish out some absurdly hard-hitting crits, assisted by the star weight boost in her first skill.

If that wasn’t enough, this skill also provides a 20-star bomb on use, essentially fuelling two of her cards enough stars to crit for free. The biggest draw to this skill remains the gauge charger, a 30% gauge charge being fairly uncommon for welfares, but the boost to Huyan’s critical damage is very useful given her focus on Quick cards. It packs an unsurprising 8-turn base cooldown, the standard for gauge charger skills.

Wrapping up her kit is Huyan’s NP, Daikourin Renkanba Mou Shugeki, a NP name that really does the opposite of sticking on your tongue. Thankfully I’ll only have to type it once.

This is a Quick AOE NP, so I’ll be breaking down its farming capability and all that comes with, but first - the brief effects.

Huyan starts with dishing out the damage, with an effective damage multiplier against Lawful alignment foes, scaling with Overcharge. Boy, what is it with this Summer and hating on Lawful people, huh? A real anarchist batch we’ve got. Much like with Kriemhild, this isn’t the best alignment-based effectiveness to have, especially when on an AOE NP, but it at least means she’s smacking a solid portion of the Servant-base hard.

Following that up is a low 30% chance to Stun every target hit, then a 20% Critical Rate Down debuff for 3 turns. Versus targets with any amount of Debuff Resistance that Stun is very unlikely to land, but on a potentially-spammable NP it is a great effect to have, even if it’s inconsistent. By comparison, the Critical Rate drop is less impactful, but great to have, essentially guarding the whole party from stray crits while it’s active, unless the enemy also buffs their Critical Rate significantly.

Let’s get into how hard this thing hits. With her own skills active, the free Welfare NP5 and Berserker class advantage factored in, Huyan is dishing out 52k damage. If you’ve been following along, you’d realize that’s significantly more damage than Kriemhild’s ST NP, though that’s more testament to how good free NP5 and the Berserker class is than how bad Kriemhild is. As a baseline, Huyan is getting a 16% refund from her NP, which is…really damn good for a Quick Servant.

Throwing her into a typical farming setup with a 50% gauge CE and double Summer Skadi, Huyan’s refund leaps up to about 40% each NP, which is notably not enough to make a 3-turn loop. But if we throw in a Ruler Da Vinci’s buffs she gets the refund necessary to 3-turn loop, so I’ll continue on presuming that setup (though other options like Ascelpius or Nero Bride should also work). For waves 1 and 2, she’s doing 219k damage with Berserker class advantage like before, and on wave 3 she should be doing 285k damage.

Naturally, that’s some spectacular farming capability, even if it does mean she needs a battlesuit swap for a 3rd support to accomplish it. And naturally the same damage output and NP spam capability can be applied to difficult content, with the added bonus of Huyan dishing out some absolutely unbelievable critical damage with Summer Skadi’s buffs behind her.