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Rabbit’s Reviews #428: Larva / Tiamat (5* Archer)

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After a very long time of Quick being the weakest card type overall, we finally get Tiamat, a new meta support perfectly positioned to fill in the gaps without completely negating Quick’s unique elements. She is in many ways comparable to Koyanskaya, in that her baseline steroids are a bit lower than her direct competition, her power depends on the exact shape of the kit of the DPS she’s supporting, and she demands a different way of thinking about team composition from existing supports. Properly used, she’s very powerful, and she can enable slowplay and fastplay Quick setups that exceed what the card type has historically been capable of and that roughly match optimized Arts and Buster teams. She does not raise the overall power ceiling—Castoria and Oberon as still the best supports in the game—but she does mostly fix Quick’s lingering problems, which is very welcome.

Tiamat does four important things: she enables several Quick Servants to loop who could not loop before, she lets Quick farming teams increase their turn-3 damage output via card stretch, she provides Quick teams with a high-end stall option that doesn’t involve taking Castoria and therefore sacrificing damage, and she’s the single-best support in the game for non-Buster multicore setups. I’ll address each of these things in the body of the review, but the big takeaway here is that unlike Ruler Skadi (and many other lower-value supports), Tiamat enables fundamentally new approaches to building Quick (and occasionally Arts) teams. While there are situations where Ruler Skadi will be the better pick, I would consider Tiamat to now be the premiere Quick support overall. If you like running Quick teams, she’s an extremely important pull.

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