Valentine's 2026 - Tier List Change Log

Introduction

• The latest Valentine's 2026 Event introduces a new Servant:
• Andromeda
• Additionally, several Servants received an upgrade since the last change log:
• Fate Samurai Remnant Collab:
• Miyamoto Musashi (Berserker)
• Pilgrimage Festival 7:
• Altria Pendragon (Santa Alter)
• Jeanne d'Arc (Alter Santa Lily)
• Ereshkigal
• Valentine's 2026 Pre-release:
• Sei Shounagon
• Murasaki Shikibu

• All Servants that were discussed for tier placement or movement are detailed below.

5 Star Servants

Tier B+

Andromeda, the featured limited Servant of the Valentine's 2026 event, is an AoE Quick Rider Servant capable of farming as well as a bit of party protection ability. She has a self NP charge of up to 30%, and has a niche passive that gives her additional 5% NP regen while on a near water battlefield. Defensively, she comes with the handy combo of 3-turn Taunt + Guts, allowing her to take damage in the place of others. Additionally she has Damage Cut and a buff that allows her to gain a small amount of NP charge and Crit Damage whenever attacked, which synergize with her taunt ability. Offensively, she has a Quick/Arts/NP Damage buff for herself, decreases DEF for the enemy before dealing damage, and via her Passive skill, can also gain a small ATK buff if she ever activates her Guts. She also has a few crit-related effects, including up to 15 Stars on demand, and an additional 15 Stars each turn for 3 turns. Her NP itself decreases DEF before dealing damage to all enemies, and buffs her own DEF by a decent amount while inflicting Skill Seal on all enemies. Her skill set draws many parallels to another AoE Quick Rider, Achilles, who also has a 30% NP charge and Taunt effect in his skillset. Although her damage is not quite at the level of Achilles, she exchanges that for slightly more party survival support via her combined 3-turn Taunt + Guts. While she can also farm, she has the potential to also excel in longer battles.

Tier List Movements

5 Star Servants

Tier A -> A+

Miyamoto Musashi's summer version received an NP upgrade during the second half of the Fate Samurai Remnant Collaboration event, giving her a 150% Damage boost across the board and additional supereffective damage against Saber Servants as an overcharge effect. With the upgrade, Musashi deals extremely respectable damage as an omni-farmer, although she can sometimes require more strict looping setups due to lacking an NP charge of her own.

Tier A -> A

Ereshkigal gets a skill upgrade during Pilgrimage Festival 7, where her first skill's chance-based effects now can be guaranteed once reaching Skill Lv10. Additionally, the skill now reduces all her own skll cooldowns by 1 turn. These upgrades are helpful to her consistency, although they do not particularly change her performance ceiling. Even before the cooldown reduction buff, she was already capable of 3-turn looping with 2x Koyanskaya / Oberon, and the additional 1 turn in most cases does not make a huge difference in farming contexts. However, in a drawn-out battle, it may come in handy once in a while.

Tier B -> B+

Sei Shounagon gets a skill upgrade for her 2nd skill duringn the Valentine's 2026 Prerelease campaign, giving her a coveted NP Gauge charger of up to 30% in value. The upgrade also extends her Crit damage buff from 3-time, 3-turn to a full 3-turns. Her NP refund has always been somewhat awkward, so the addition of an NP charge skill for her helps a great deal in making things more consistent.

Tier B -> B

Murasaki Shikibu's third skill gets an upgrade with the Valentine's 2026 Prerelease campaign, giving her the ability to grant the entire party with bonus damage against Chaotic and Good alignment enemies for 3 turns. The damage buff is relatively modest when it comes to trait-based buffs at only 30% maximum, although the coverage is relatively decent. Even then it is a niche upgrade overall.

4 Star Servants

Tier C+ -> C+

Altria Pendragon Santa Alter received a skill upgrade during Pilgrimage Festival 7, where her Intuition skill gets a huge makeover. She now can provide the entire party with 10% NP charge, Overcharge +1 for 1 time across 3 turns, and increased Critical Strength for 3 turns. Additionally, the number of Stars generated by the skill is doubled up to 30, helping make sure that allies can take advantage of the new Crit buff. The supportive benefits are very helpful, and make it so that she contributes much more to the party than before. However, it is still difficult to find a time Masters would select her over other more dedicated supports, and the 10% NP charge is just below the threshold required to allow her to 3-turn loop with 2x Koyanskaya + Oberon.

Tier B -> C+

JAlter Santa Lily got an NP upgrade with Pilgrimage Festival 7, giving her the standard +100% damage for AoE Buster NPs, and extending the duration of all the buffs granted by her NP (Debuff Res down for enemies, ATK up and HP Recovery up for allies) to now last 3 turns. However, this upgrade barely helps keep her up with the rest of the roster since there have since been many other excellent AoE Lancer options. Due to the introduction of newer Lancer options, it was agreed that her current rating may be too high even with her upgrade, and she has been adjusted accordingly.

Tier List Change Log History

See the full tier list change log history here.