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Compared to the overwhelming bundle of gameplay and aesthetic flair that was Aoko during this event, Alice has pretty big shoes to fill as her teacher in magecraft and ostensible rival.

Saying that, she certainly got a lot more story focus and mystery than Aoko, what with the whole thing revolving around how…uncontrollable some of her Ploys can be, and ones far more dangerous than Robin. Just be thankful Sweets Hearts didn’t take the stage, or else it’d be one hell of a more chaotic mystery…though it still somehow involved Aoko getting herself killed for very dumb reasons.

I feel like I’ve said it a lot this even, but Alice is very average so far as SSR Casters go. Her Attack is 8th best of her class and rarity, and her HP is the 3rd best, meaning she’s actually very well statted on the whole, albeit leaning towards durability more than offence.

In fact, Alice’s base parameters are kind of absurd. Even accounting for the fact that being a Servant isn’t the same as being a living magus, she has the same Magic stat as Solomon, surpassing well-known incredibly powerful magi like Medea and Circe in magical capabilities.

That is to say, there’s a reason Alice was Aoko’s teacher. Even to a Magician, she’s a really absurdly strong magus, and worthy of continuing the legacy of Yumina, the first Magician. And that’s the reason her base parameters are very strong.

Naturally, skilled magi need good basic skills, and Alice covers that with her high-ranking Territory Creation and Item Creation, providing a notable boost to her Arts cards and the consistency of her debuffs. She also packs two unique passives. Folklore Protection provides her 400 damage cut passively, reducing the damage she takes from normal attacks significantly, as well as 400 damage reduction to Poison, Burn, or Curse damage ticks she takes. This similarly is very effective at improving her durability, as such effects are more dangerous to players than they are to enemies.

Her other passive is Yumina, a skill embodying the nature of Witches in Nasuverse, where they have an absurd conceptual level defence to death by malice. While that would usually mean they’re essentially immortal in most cases, unfortunately FGO has to nerf it a little to keep Alice balanced, providing her with 5 procs of Guts that only works versus Instant Death effects, as well as passively gaining a 2k HP heal whenever she revives from Guts. As a result, this is mostly flavour, but in practice it’s Instant Death immunity, more or less, which isn’t a bad thing to have around.

With a BAAQQ card deck and 0.51% base NP gain, Alice’s base Arts gain is…very absurd. With her 5-hit Arts cards, she nets a total of 2.8 base Arts gain, significantly above average, and some of the best Arts NP gain you can get with 2 Arts cards in your deck. While this is balanced out by the fact that her Quicks and Extra card NP gain are far less impressive, she still has a very solid NP gain profile overall due to how effective those Arts cards are, without sacrificing her other cards too badly.

Being a Quick-focused Caster, her stargen is also very good. With 5 hits to her Quicks, and generally high hitcounts across the board, she’s more than capable of producing a large amount of stars for the team, and she goes even further on NP turns.

So more or less, she’s very good in these areas.

So how is Alice, on the whole? On the one hand, she’s the apple of my eye, the pie in the sky, ever-graceful and eloquent, Mai Tenshi!

However, she’s also, quite frankly, terrifying when she’s serious, both in power and mood, so by all means keep me the hell away from her:

Compared to some of the other Servants going around in this event, Alice is relatively plain, without that many unique mechanics or new effects to work around. This doesn’t detract from her actual power at all, however, as she makes for a very capable Quick farmer, even hitting the damage numbers necessary for universal farming in Oberon setups.

Paired with her high capability in difficult content, able to endure far more hits than other damage dealers while plastering the enemy lineup with Stun, it’s no shock she’s a very versatile offensive Caster, and one worth your attention. Her peak of farming performance does require some heavy investment, and similarly she does run into some issues being a Quick Servant in general, but that doesn’t take away her strengths, presenting a very capable option for Caster AOE damage should one desire it. Rath™ Seal of Approval.