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With a base NP gain of 0.43%, U-Olga Marie’s BBAAQ card deck and its 4-hit Arts cards results in a base Arts gain of 1.89. A good way above average, though nothing outstanding. Naturally, this comes with the drawback of poor Buster/Quick NP gain, her 5-hit cards there providing passable NP gain, if nothing else, while her Extra card’s NP gain is slightly below average.

With all of her cards having 4 hits or higher, it goes without saying U-Olga Marie’s star generation is fantastic, and even with a lack of Quick cards she’ll produce a good sum of stars in any given Brave chain.

Skill 1

First for U-Olga Marie’s skills is Unparalleled, and its counterpart, Ultra Manifest. These skills share some similarities, so how I’ll describe them is I’ll do the Alien God form skill first, then note the differences for the Director form skill.

Unparalleled reduces U-Olga Marie’s own skill cooldowns by 2 turns, gives herself a 30% NP Strength Up buff for 3 turns, a 50-star bomb, and changes the current command order to all U-Olga Marie cards for 1 turn. If you recall LB7, this skill will probably sound familiar.

In addition to hogging the attention of the card shuffler, this skill applies NP Seal to all enemies for 1-turn, and 50% Healing Reduction for 3 turns.

The Ultra Manifest version of this skill replaces the card order change and NP Strength Up buff for a team 20% Attack Up and Critical Damage Up buff for 3 turns. Slightly less damage output, but it makes her more of a team player, which will probably be a recurring theme for Director U-Olga Marie.

It goes without saying this skill is spectacular in both forms, providing useful debuffs to plaster on the enemy lineup, valuable skill cooldown reduction, and solid offensive boosts that either set up a devastating Brave Chain or boost the whole team’s damage output by a good degree. From a sheer offensive perspective the Alien God form’s skill is better, but there’s places where either outclasses the other.

All this power naturally results in a hefty base cooldown of 9 turns, but with the skill cooldown reduction built in, it’s not as bad as it seems.

Skill 2

Next up is World-Shattering, and its counterpart, Atomic Plant. Yeah, she’s literally going nuclear for this one.

In her Alien God form, this skill provides an absurd 300% gauge charge to herself, as well as a 200% Overcharge boost for 1 time, 3 turns, at the cost of 1000 HP from her allies. She’s literally making a 500% Overcharge NP for herself without any input from her team, and boy is that a statement.

Conversely, Atomic Plant is more considerate of U-Olga Marie’s allies, providing a 20% gauge charge to herself and a 30% gauge charge to the whole party, resulting in 50% for her and 30% for the rest, as well as a lesser 100% Overcharge boost for herself, 1 time for 3 turns. Technically lesser in power, but ah, the costs of being considerate to others.

Both of these skills are superb gauge charge skills, though interestingly the value of the Alien God form’s gauge charger lessens if you don’t have her at NP2 or higher. Her 3rd skill has a 100% gauge charge cost, so if her maximum gauge charge isn’t 200% or higher, you can’t use her whole kit in one turn then still NP without external help. Conversely, her Director form’s skill has no such issue, even if the sheer gauge charge is lesser, with the benefit of providing a 30% team gauge charge, a very uncommon and useful gauge charge.

With a base cooldown, again, of 9 turns, these skills pack a hefty cooldown, but that comes with the benefits of such spectacular gauge charge, whether selfish or a team player.

Skill 3

Rounding U-Olga Marie’s skillset off is Flawlessness, and its counterpart, Ultimate U. I’d be more afraid if it was called something like “Wonder of U”...

This skill comes with an activation requirement of at least 100% gauge charge, and drains U-Olga Marie’s NP gauge completely, not just the required 100%, but comes with an absolute bonanza of buffs for both herself and her team.

In her Alien God form, she gives herself +50% Effective damage against Knight/Horsemen classes for 1 turn, +20% Buster Up to herself for 3 turns, and a whopping combo of +30% Buster Up, +100% Extra Up, +30% Critical Damage Up, +50% NP Gain, and Invincible Pierce for 3 turns to the whole party. Even to U-Olga Marie herself those buffs would be crazy, but boy is that a package.

It’s also notable that this skill is the first one in the game that can provide Extra Card Up to Servants other than oneself, which opens up the opportunity to dish out some REALLY hard hitting Extra cards with Aoko if you want to mess around. Said boost also improves Extra card star generation / NP gain, so…U-Olga Marie’s AOE Extra card can get some SERIOUS NP refund with this skill active.

In comparison, Ultimate U instead gives +50% Effective damage against Extra classes, and exchanges the +20% Buster Up on U-Olga Marie and the Invincible Pierce for Debuff Immunity and 1-time Invincible for 3 turns to the team. The loss in offensive might is a shame, but the majority of the offensive buffs in the skill are still there, while also providing incredibly rare long-duration team Debuff Immunity, something that can invalidate the difficulty of some fights.

It might be difficult to deploy, but the sheer might this skill provides to the team is absurd, while also letting U-Olga Marie cosplay as the existing Beast class advantages for a single turn, depending on her Ascension. Unsurprisingly this skill has a base cooldown of 9 turns, keeping it in line with the rest of her kit.

Putting a neat little ribbon on U-Olga Marie’s kit is her NP, the fittingly-named Planet Olga Marie.

This is a Buster AOE NP so thankfully we don’t have to tussle with too many calculations to assess it in farming situations, but let’s go over the effects.

Before dealing damage, this NP plasters every target with 20% Buster/Arts/Quick Down for 1 turn. It follows up with its damage, possessing a Super-Effective +50% modifier against Human or Star attribute foes (scaling with Overcharge).

These effects alone are great, providing a decent NP turn steroid before dealing damage, on top of effective damage against the most common attribute among Servants, Human, as well as Star attribute, a rare attribute to come across among enemies, but it shows up on pretty major bosses and a small selection of Servants.

That’s not all for her NP effects, either. After dealing damage, U-Olga Marie provides the team with a 3-turn Attack buff, scaling with her NP level from 10% to 30%, and charging the whole team’s NP gauge by 10%, with a further 10% for Human/Star Attribute, or Living Human allies. U-Olga Marie herself is always either Human/Star attribute, so she always nets a 20% gauge refund herself.

The effects of her NP alone are evidently spectacular, providing ramping damage for the whole team and continuous gauge charge, doubly so considering common supportive Servants like Castoria, Waver, Mashu, and Reines net the full 20% gauge charge, and U-Olga Marie herself falls under the general “Living Human support band” if she’s in her Director form, enabling even more synergies.

But how is her damage output? That’s hard to assess given she has two separate skill sets, but for farming purposes you’d almost always use her Alien God form, so I’ll assess her damage output in that. With just her own buffs she’s doing a pretty mediocre 24.7k damage neutral with her first NP, no effective damage, but if she’s at least facing the right option out of the Knight/Horseman or Extra class divide, that leaps up to a far more potent 34k neutral.

In practical terms, how she does in a farming composition is all that matters, so let’s leap into it. With a Kaleidoscope (to use her 3rd skill immediately) and double Koyanskaya, U-Olga Marie is doing 64k damage neutral wave 1, 63k damage wave 2 (no longer gaining class-based effective damage), and about 115k neutral on wave 3.

If those numbers sound rather underwhelming, it’s because they more or less are. In farming scenarios random nitpicky details like using her gauge charger effectively and still getting enough NP gauge while using her 3rd skill twice in 3 turns are hard to resolve, so she can’t wield the damage potential her kit represents. It’s worth noting though that with double Koyanskaya backing her, U-Olga Marie kind of…utterly obliterates Human attribute targets. In the same scenario on wave 3 she’s hitting damage in the range of 311k neutral against Human attribute. Lord forgive if she’s targeting a Foreigner or Mooncancer.

Farming using Black Grail with her should be theoretically possible but the setup to manage it would be really obtuse to manage, as it’s not a normal Oberon setup if you want maximal damage, so I don’t particularly want to dig into it. In such a scenario she would hit incredibly hard, at least.