Rabbit’s Reviews #384: Miyamoto Iori (4* Saber)

Article by 22whiterabbit22

Table of Contents

Introduction
Servant Data
Overview
Material Requirements
Servant Skills
Noble Phantasm
Usage Tips
Grail Potential
Conclusion
Rabbit's Arbitrary Ratings
More Servant Reviews

Introduction

The Samurai Remnant collab is the first real collab event with something that isn’t just another form of FGO content in ages. The game’s main character, Miyamoto Iori, is naturally the welfare Servant. He’s really good, too—in fact, his kit would be reasonable on a non-welfare Servant, so being automatically NP5 makes him very strong. He has Koyan-compatible skills, good steroids, crit access, and ramp. He even gets a bit of utility, too! Unless you’ve invested heavily in someone like Musashi, there’s a good chance Iori is the best ST Buster Saber you have available, making him well-worth leveling.

Servant Data

Saber

QAABB (Saber)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

Attribute	Human
Alignment	Lawful Balanced

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

Max HP 11,248

HP Rank

Max ATK 9,999

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,666	Base HP	1,799
Max Atk	9,999	Max HP	11,248
Grail Atk	12,107	Grail HP	13,638

Magic Resistance B

Increase your Debuff Resist by 17.5%.

Riding B

Increase your Quick Card effectiveness by 8%.

Card Hits	3	4	4	6	6
Per Hit	0.42%	0.42%	0.42%	0.42%	0.42%

	NP per Hit (%)						0.42%
	NP when Attacked (%)						3%

	Star Absorption	100
	Star Generation per Hit	10.2%

Overview

Material Requirements

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	50,000	x1 Mizuhiki Netsuke
3	150,000	x1 Mizuhiki Netsuke
4	500,000	x1 Mizuhiki Netsuke
Max	1,500,000	x1 Mizuhiki Netsuke

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	100,000	x4 Gem of Saber
2 → 3	200,000	x10 Gem of Saber
3 → 4	600,000	x4 Magic Gem of Saber
4 → 5	800,000	x10 Magic Gem of Saber x4 Octuplet Crystals
5 → 6	2,000,000	x4 Secret Gem of Saber x8 Octuplet Crystals
6 → 7	2,500,000	x10 Secret Gem of Saber x12 Proof of Hero
7 → 8	5,000,000	x24 Proof of Hero x2 Mysterious Divine Wine
8 → 9	6,000,000	x6 Mysterious Divine Wine x8 Flaming Oni Lantern Plant
9 → 10	10,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	100000	x4 Gem of Saber
2 → 3	200000	x10 Gem of Saber
3 → 4	600000	x4 Magic Gem of Saber
4 → 5	800000	x10 Magic Gem of Saber x4 Refined Magatama
5 → 6	2000000	x4 Secret Gem of Saber x8 Refined Magatama
6 → 7	2500000	x10 Secret Gem of Saber x4 Soundless Bell
7 → 8	5000000	x8 Soundless Bell x5 Divine Leyline Spiritron
8 → 9	6000000	x15 Divine Leyline Spiritron x60 Ashes of Forgetfulness
9 → 10	10000000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Servant Skills

Iori’s skillset is quite strong, especially for a welfare. Recommended skill order is 2>3>1.

Critical Star Absorption Up

Like Ice B

Increase own Critical Star Gather Rate (3 turns).
Increase own Critical Strength (3 turns).
Apply to self: Gain Critical Stars each turn (3 turns).
Increase own Mental Debuff Resist (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Star Gather +	300%	320%	340%	360%	380%	400%	420%	440%	460%	500%
Crit Damage +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Stars per turn +	5	6	6	7	7	8	8	9	9	10
Mental Debuff Res +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Like Ice is a fairly standard crit-enabling skill, giving stars per turn and a star weight buff, along with a crit damage buff. The crit damage buff caps out at 30%, which is low, but Iori has enough else going for him that it’s not a huge issue—and most of his crit buffs will likely be coming from Koyan anyway. Koyan teams are great at ensuring crits for a turn, and Iori has ways to ensure he can crit the rest of the time, too, which is really nice. This skill also makes Iori more resistant to mental debuffs, which is highly situational but occasionally nice.

Start Np

Crimson Codex B

Increase own NP Gauge.
Increase own ATK (3 turns).
Gain Critical Stars.
Inflict Burn on all enemies (3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
NP +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
ATK +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Stars +	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	20
Burn Dmg +	500	550	600	650	700	750	800	850	900	1000
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Crimson Codex is Iori’s battery. It’s usual 30% charge fare—Iori can guarantee he can tri-loop with a 50% charge CE and a Koyan/Koyan/Oberon setup with the help of this skill. The skill also gives a small attack buff, which also stacks with Koyan’s help (albeit not until turn 3), and a burst of critical stars for help critting. Closing out this skill is a small burn effect, which is mostly for flavor but does technically add a bit more damage.

All Type Up

Blade of Five Rings A

Increase own Quick Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Increase own Arts Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Increase own Buster Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Apply Damage Cut to self (3 turns).
Apply Evade to self (2 times, 3 turns).

Show Info

Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Quick +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Arts +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Buster +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Damage Cut +	300	320	340	360	380	400	420	440	460	500
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Blade of Five Rings is a great skill. It’s a tricolor 3-turn card buff, and while it does cap out at 20%, which is low, Iori has enough steroids elsewhere that he gets away with it. The skill then provides some great survivability, with a low-ish damage cut—which can be meaningful against Lancers—and a 2-hit dodge. This is an all-around great skill, bringing both extra damage and a lot of bulk.

Noble Phantasm

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
-	Anti-Personnel	6

Effect	Increase own Quick Card effectiveness by 20% (3 turns) [Activates first]. Increase own Buster Card effectiveness by 20% (3 turns) [Activates first]. Apply Sure Hit to self (1 turn) [Activates first]. Deal damage to a single enemy.

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Quick +	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%
Buster +	20%	20%	20%	20%	20%
Sure Hit
Damage +	600%	800%	900%	950%	1000%

Overcharge Effect	Gain Critical Stars.

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
Stars +	10	15	20	25	30

Usage Tips

Grail Potential

Conclusion

Iori is a pretty generic ST Buster unit, but he’s generic in a positive direction—high values, good utility, all the necessary tools, et cetera. On a banner Servant, this would be somewhat less of a good thing, since Iori doesn’t really carve his own niche. As a free unit, though, Iori is basically everything you’d want in an ST Buster Saber and is automatically NP5 on top of that. Excellent all-around as free Servants go.

Rabbit's Arbitrary Ratings

Overall: 9/10
Single-Target DPS: 9/10
AoE DPS: N/A
Survivability: 7/10
Offensive Utility: 1/10
Defensive Utility: N/A
Farming Usefulness: 3/10
Rings (Sequel Version): 5/5