MMM - Matron of Mistrals Mesmerized by Mashu's Master, Must More Maidens be Manic for Master on Main? (LB7 Gacha Part 2)

I’m gonna be honest, I didn’t know until now that the Mayans and Aztecs shared deities kind of like the Romans / Greeks did, or to a lesser extent the Assyrians and Mesopatamians and the Greeks.

So she’s a different flavored Quetzalcoatl. Yep. Nothing else. Don’t ask why she’s a Foreigner. And don’t ask me why Daybit is crying about his Spider waifu, he’ll cheer up when he can skateboard off a step-pyramid.

I gotta say, it took a long time for the Foreigner class to actually display its real potential statlines, when we’ve been plagued with a lot of Foreigners with poor Parameters for so long to muddy the waters.

With the best Attack stat of any 5* Foreigner and the tied-2nd worst HP stat, Kukulkan is offensively leaned to a fine degree, and doesn’t lose out too much on HP for it - 13k HP base is practically average, but 12.5k attack is a good margin above average for a typical Servant.

Given the Foreigner class’s tendencies, you would assume Kukulkan has a bajillion passives, no? Well…she has 2. But they’re goddamn amazing ones.

Civilization Creation is the lesser of the two, providing an Item Creation-style debuff success rate buff to the team while she’s on field, slightly increasing the consistency of your party’s debuffs. Nothing crazy, but certainly nice to have around.

“???” (This is the actual name of the skill if you haven’t cleared LB7, as its true nature is a spoiler), however, is without a doubt the best passive in the game. Providing 10 Critical Stars and 3% NP gauge every turn when she’s on the field is already great, essentially providing a free Fragments of 2030 for herself, but it also automatically converts all Invincible buffs applied to herself into Anti-Enforcement Defense, or Special Invincible if you think that name is dumb.

It’s the Castoria NP Invuln, if you don’t know what I’m talking about.

Being able to turn not only the Invincible buff in her own kit, but those provided by allies, into the type that bypasses Invincible Pierce and other similar effects, is spectacular, though it can occasionally be a drawback - since this means Kukulkan essentially can’t receive Invincible buffs, if paired with Castoria you might have issues with doubling up on Special Invincible, causing a defensive cooldown to be wasted, whereas other Servants can stack up, say, Reines’s Invincible buff under Castoria’s buff, to provide 2 layers of protection.

But no doubt, Kukulkan has an incredible baseline to work with.

You’re telling me this is a feathered serpent? It sure looks like a Gorilla to me with that BBBAQ card deck.

While the deck in question naturally means Kukulkan is a little short on the types of cards that actually provide decent NP gauge, her NP gain on those cards isn’t half bad. With a base NP gain of 0.78 and a 3-hit Arts card, her base Arts gain comes out to 2.34, more than most Servants with her same card deck.

Her Quick and Extra cards also hit solidly above average on the NP gain charts at 4 and 5 hits apiece, and her passive 3% NP gauge each turn means she’s going to passively earn some NP gauge even if her cards are all coming up Buster.

On the stargen side of things she’s pretty solid. Naturally, her free 10 stars each turn automatically make her one of the best star generators in the game, but that’s something of an allowance for her kit’s gimmick (which I’ll get into later) rather than a direct positive. With 3 hits on her Busters and the aforementioned good hitcounts on her Quick and Extra, Kukulkan can drop a good sum of stars with the right brave chains.

Overall Kukulkan is pretty well-rounded in this area, though a lot of it is due to her broken passive.

So how is Kukulkan, all things considered? Well on the one hand, she’s out of this world:

On the other hand, she’s all heart, though I suppose in her case that’s a bad thing(?):

Well, the SSR’s for this story chapter have just been back-to-back bangers. It’s almost like they had to try their hardest to one-up Tezcatlipoca with this one, with Kukulkan also packing an incredible offensive profile, strong defensive tools, and consistent farming that transcends class.

She farms well, she crits easily, and when she does hit, Kukulkan punches like a bullet train that’s been fired out of the Black Barrel, colliding head-first into the frailest thing you can imagine - Mandricardo’s self-esteem. There are very few Servants out there who can boast similar damage peaks, consistency, and high-difficulty quest performance in combination, and even being compared to Melusine is pretty high praise, here.

Hell, Kukulkan has a pretty good case for being the most versatile Servant to tackle “any” high-difficulty quest in the game, so in that sense she has Melusine’s relatively weak scope outside of farming or 3-turn speed kills beat.

Kukulkan is easily the best Foreigner in the game, and even trounces the competition by a very respectable margin. She should be on your radar whether your selection in the class is weak or not, simply because she does so much. Rath™ Seal of Approval, with a recommendation.