While scrolling through future banners, I was starting to theorycraft a new team comp since I would like to switch it up from my buster team (heracles waver ishtar or a class advantage guy) to a arts team around munenori or hokusai or maybe even robin hood so I can have a reason to level him up . I was thinking something like waver + hans/cas gil + a arts dps . Although I know i can always take a tamamo support max skills, it feels cheap so I was wondering if tamamo is really necessary in this type of teams .
Tamamo is somewhat like the Merlin of Arts teams due to her third skill and NP. Fox's Wedding EX buffs Arts cards and heals a teammate, and her NP's flat teamwide NP refund and skill cooldown reduction allows her to keep team NP uptime to a maximum.
Try to get a Tamamo if you want to utilize a DPS or other servant like Waver from your friends list or if you want to run double Tamamo for the Memelin lineup: Arts edition
Sure, if you are confident. However, there are some holes. Casgil can give offence, but you might want heals with mystic code. Hans can heal and give attack def up, but he is a bit fragile and sorta overlaps with waver skills. Lastly, arts teams take time to build up with no real burst, so no tamamo means less turns for stall and harder np skill rotations.
Is she absolutely necessary? No.
Does she make (most) of them much better? Yes.
For instance, if you use Orion, he has an evade skill and an attack up skill, along with 2 arts cards. He'll do a bunch of damage on NP attacks (especially against males). What Tamamo does is provide an arts up- even more damage for the NP, plus make those other 2 arts cards work better. Plus provide a cooldown on skills, so he can evade quicker if necessary. Plus provide an NP charge, so even if you didn't have arts chains Orion can NP quicker.
Much like Waver or Merlin, she just makes things easier. You could use Boudica or Paracelsus (plus a few that haven't been released in NA yet; team-wide 20% arts boost for 3 turns) or Mozart for team-wide arts boost for 1 turn, or Chiron (not released in NA yet) for 1 servant 30% arts boost for 3 turns...Just like other servants can heal, or others can provide NP charge.
She just does it better than them.
Tamamo does a few super important things for Arts teams:
1. NP charge
2. Skill cooldown reduction
3. Arts buff
4. Stall
5. Heal
Arts teams are all about spamming NPs and rotating skills as much as possible. Since their face cards don’t do too much damage, NP uptime is really important.
Arts buffs both increase NP damage (if it’s an Arts NP, which it should be) and NP charge gained from arts cards. Fox’s Wedding is like a 3-turn Arts Mana Burst...the value on that skill is ridiculous.
Arts Teams also stall to charge their NP...delaying enemy NPs (or synching them so they can all be avoided/dodged with someone like Jeanne, Merlin, Mash, or d’Eon) means more time for you to charge your NP and cool down your skills.
Is she necessary? Absolutely not.
Is she absolutely the best at what she does? Yes.
Is she kind of awkward in arts crit comps? Sure, unless you stick 2030 on her.
Does she slow down the pace of the game? Yup, but she also allows for better bursts.
