MMM - Now Not-NPC Nefarious Nemesis of the Netherworld Negs Neglectful Never-ending Nega-deities (Typhon Ephemeros)

With a base NP gain of 0.6% and a single 4-hit Arts card in her BBBAQ card deck, Typhon’s base Arts gain comes out to an above-average 2.4. While that’s pretty solid, her Quick with the same hit count is more or less average by comparison, and her Busters produce decent NP gauge, but nothing special. Likewise, her 5-hit Extra isn’t spectacular for NP gain, but isn’t bad, either.

On the flipside, Typhon’s stargen is pretty good with the high hitcounts across all her cards, though her general lack of Quick cards mean she isn’t spectacular at it, either. The solid stargen she has can compensate a little for her NP gain, especially if she can score a crit on her single Arts card.

Any Buster gorilla is going to suffer a bit on either front as a cost for the sheer offense they get, but in comparison to some Typhon doesn’t have it too bad, especially with her passive 5% gauge every turn factored in.

Skill 1

Typhon’s first skill, Dragon Prison Incarnation - Ashen Armor, is quite the mouthful, but provides a package of handy effects, granting her a 2-time, 3-turn Invincible buff, as well as 20% Attack Up and Buster Up for 3 turns.

Having any defensive tool, especially one that is “fire and forget” is fantastic, but Typhon also starts up with an incredibly solid 3-turn offensive steroid, combining with her passive NP damage boost to get the trinity of offensive buffs right from the get-go, ensuring her damage output will be solid no matter what. It’s nothing that abnormal, but it’s a trio of very good effects, so it’s great in my book.

The 8-turn base cooldown on this skill is what you should expect from a skill with an Invincible buff in it, especially with the other perks.

Skill 2

Next on the skill lineup is Black Wings. This is an ally-target skill, providing the chosen target a 200% Overcharge boost 1-time for 3 turns, as well as a 1-turn skill cooldown reduction, 30% Critical Damage Up for 3 turns and a 15-star bomb.

As you might expect, all these minor boosts in concert are excellent, whether used to cut down Typhon’s own skill cooldowns and boost her critical damage, or on a support Servant to get their powerful supportive buffs up faster and boost the effects of their NP. It’s especially good given that, as Typhon is a Buster-focused Servant, it scales more effectively with Koyanskaya skill cooldown reduction.

With the power of this skill and its effects, a 9-turn base cooldown is pretty fair, though it’s mitigated through the skill cooldown part itself.

Skill 3

Rounding it all off for Typhon is Oh, how Sinful. Oh, how Guilty. Oh, how Evil. Esoteric skill names ahoy, I suppose!

This skill is the necessary 50% gauge charger on an SSR, but this skill goes above and beyond, providing a 30% gauge charge to Typhon herself and 20% gauge charge to the whole team, providing everyone else useful gauge charge on top of Typhon’s own 50%. On top of that, this skill provides the standard Charisma 20% Attack buff for 3 turns to the team, albeit at the cost of slapping 500 damage Curse on the team for 3 turns.

As I’ve noted in prior MMM’s, offensive Servants with team gauge charge is incredibly potent, even more so when you have access to Servants like Koyanskaya or Tamamo who provides skill cooldown reduction to Typhon and heavily accelerate everyone’s skills and NP’s as a result.

Sealing up Typhon’s whole kit is naturally her NP, which is called…Typhon. Just Typhon. Sure, the NP subtext is wordy and all, but this is a Setanta situation all over again. I guess your NP being yourself is a flex of its own.

This is a Buster AOE NP, and one with a few effects to get through. Before dealing damage, Typhon buffs herself with Invincible Pierce and 10% NP Power Up (scaling notably quite well with Overcharge) for 1 turn. Then she does her damage, with a Super-effective Modifier that provides +10% damage for every individual debuff (that isn’t unremovable) on her, to a maximum of +100% damage.

So far as effective damage modifiers go on NP’s, this is one of the weirdest, as Typhon’s own kit only provides one (two if you’re stretching it, given her natural weakness to debuffs) mechanism to empower it - the Curse on her 3rd skill. So unless the team you run self-debuffs the team a lot, or you come into the right fight, Typhon doesn’t have a decent way to stack up the damage on this NP…normally.

What do I mean by that? Well, the Grand system is now in the game, and with it, it seems Lasengle has gotten very cheeky with how they design Servants. Case in point, let me read out the benefits of Typhon’s bond CE for you - a passive +30% NP Power Up buff, as well as an effect that provides her with 10% Critical Damage Up and a 200 Damage Curse Debuff to herself for 3 turns before every normal card attack she makes.

That’s right, Typhon’s performance hinges incredibly heavily on whether you have her bond CE or not, since that self-curse effect increases her damage output significantly. Doubly so if you select her as one of your Extra class Grand Servants, since in the majority of future difficult content she’ll have the perks of her Bond CE at all times.

For the purposes of her evaluation, I’m going to assume you can get her to bond 10, but not get the benefits of the Grand system, since that feels a little bit too favourable to her. Regardless, bear it in mind.

The last effects on this NP round off with a 1k damage Burn debuff and +100% Burn damage amplifier for 5 turns on all enemies. A nice package of bonus damage that will add up if you score multiple NP’s in succession, but nothing that incredible on the whole.

With that in mind, let’s look at Typhon’s damage potential in a looping context, since she’s capable of Koyanskaya+Oberon farming. On her own, Typhon’s NP dishes out an overwhelmingly powerful 34k damage neutral, though that is factoring in the 1-time Overcharge boost on her second skill, so that damage output won’t linger for successive NP’s. It’s also worth noting that this NP has 7 hits, so when hitting 3 targets it’s likely to produce a good sum of critical stars.

In a proper farming team with a 50% gauge CE and Oberon in the wings, Typhon is dishing out 83k damage neutral wave 1, 87k damage wave 2, and a hefty 383k damage on wave 3 with Oberon coming in.

You may note that Typhon’s boost from Oberon coming in is disproportionately high compared to most Servants, and that’s due to a funny fact involving him - Both Oberon’s Gauge charger and 1-turn giga damage buff on his 3rd skill apply clock debuffs (the first doing gauge drain at end of the turn, and the second putting you to permanent sleep). These naturally boost Typhon’s debuff-based effective damage (at least, if I’m interpreting the wording correctly. Oberon’s debuffs are technically unremovable, but it’s a different kind of unremovable to boss mechanic-based unremovable buffs, which is what I believe they refer to). This results in a pretty explosive turn 3, even if her initial wave damage is pretty mediocre, albeit good enough to kill most farming nodes with Pretender class advantage.