Rabbit's Reviews #243: Osakabehime (4* Archer)

Osakabehime is a weird servant. With an awkward deck and a somewhat incoherent kit, she looks, at first glance, to be pretty bad. Fortunately, her total steroids are exceptionally high, and she has remarkably good bases, which means she largely overcomes her innate weaknesses and becomes a surprisingly workable unit. She’s something of a modernized Emiya in some respects, designed around unusually powerful cards in exchange for a mismatched deck and a weak NP.

Osakabehime has low attack and very high HP relative to her class and rarity, which is kind of an unfortunate starting point for a servant who relies heavily on Arts crits for her damage output. She’ll also struggle to generate stars due to her deck, though her NP gain is quite good. Osakabehime’s base Arts NP gain is well above standard for triple-Arts decks, and she has a passive skill and an active skill to boost it further, meaning she can spam her NP to a degree that’s usually impossible for servants of her deck type. For passives, she has the usual Magic Resistance and Independent Action, the latter of which is notably valuable here due to Osakabehime’s crit focus. She also has the mostly-flavor Divinity, as well as a unique passive that both buffs her Arts cards and gives her a permanent 200 HP damage cut. The value on that isn’t especially high, but permanent damage cut is a really neat effect, and it can amount to a lot of added bulk if you’re stacking defensive buffs.

Ascension Materials

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	50,000	x4 Archer Piece Open Archer Piece configuration options
3	150,000	x10 Archer Piece Open Archer Piece configuration options x12 Void's Dust Open Void's Dust configuration options
4	500,000	x4 Archer Monument Open Archer Monument configuration options x24 Reactive Gunpowder Open Reactive Gunpowder configuration options x4 Shell of Reminiscence Open Shell of Reminiscence configuration options
Max	1,500,000	x10 Archer Monument Open Archer Monument configuration options x8 Shell of Reminiscence Open Shell of Reminiscence configuration options x10 Eternal Gear Open Eternal Gear configuration options

Skill Enhancement Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	100,000	x4 Gem of Archer Open Gem of Archer configuration options
2 → 3	200,000	x10 Gem of Archer Open Gem of Archer configuration options
3 → 4	600,000	x4 Magic Gem of Archer Open Magic Gem of Archer configuration options
4 → 5	800,000	x10 Magic Gem of Archer Open Magic Gem of Archer configuration options x12 Reactive Gunpowder Open Reactive Gunpowder configuration options
5 → 6	2,000,000	x4 Secret Gem of Archer Open Secret Gem of Archer configuration options x24 Reactive Gunpowder Open Reactive Gunpowder configuration options
6 → 7	2,500,000	x10 Secret Gem of Archer Open Secret Gem of Archer configuration options x8 Void's Dust Open Void's Dust configuration options
7 → 8	5,000,000	x16 Void's Dust Open Void's Dust configuration options x3 Dawn Core Open Dawn Core configuration options
8 → 9	6,000,000	x9 Dawn Core Open Dawn Core configuration options x20 Arrowhead of Atonement Open Arrowhead of Atonement configuration options
9 → 10	10,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore Open Crystallized Lore configuration options

Osakabehime’s mats are a bit tricky, as she mostly asks for Lostbelt items. Nothing she needs is overly painful to farm, but it’s likely you will need to farm free quests in order to max her quickly, especially if you’ve invested in any other recent servants.

Osakabehime’s skillset is kind of underwhelming in and of itself, but it comes together passably well. Recommended skill order is 3>1>2.

Osakabehime is most notable for having insanely high total buff value assuming all of her tools are active. Assuming one usage of her NP without any overcharge, she can have 100% crit damage up, 50% Buster up, 38% Arts up, and 20% attack up, which allows her to reach deceptively high crit damage thresholds, especially with outside buffs. The catch here is that Osakabehime only has a single Buster card, which means she can’t really make good use of her “Hero-Creation-esque” crit potential, and 50% of that crit damage is limited in duration and tied to her only survival tool. This means Osakabehime has exceptionally strong crit potential but also has serious flexibility issues that will make it difficult for her to get the most out of that potential (on top of having to deal with a sub-optimal stat spread). Osakabehime also doesn’t have any innate star weight buff, which means she’s entirely reliant on Archer star weight to draw stars.

The long and short of it is Osakabehime is a strongly crit-oriented servant, but she’ll need a lot of help to really shine. Supports who can provide longer-lasting buffs and help to make her Arts cards hit harder will be particularly valuable here, with Lanling being a notable standout, as his tools synergize wonderfully with Osakabehime’s kit. Merlin is also a strong option, of course, and despite Osakabehime’s Buster NP, Tamamo (or even Bride) may be valuable for the purpose of amping Osakabehime’s Arts crits and facilitating NP spam.

Osakabehime also has some intriguing potential as a Buster crit semi-support, especially in ST fights where the demerit on her Charisma doesn’t matter. If you can let Osakabehime NP immediately (such as with a Kaleid in an Osakabehime/DPS/Merlin team) you’ll have a high level of Buster crit boostage to work with for the first three turns of the fight. Osakabehime can also continually reapply her NP so long as you’re willing to use her Arts cards when they’re available. Osakabehime’s limited survival tools may make this setup somewhat unreliable, but it might be workable for certain fights.

For a DPS Osakabehime, Hot Sands is an interesting CE choice, as it will make it far easier for Osakabehime to crit (which is a necessity if she’s to really shine). Summer Little is also a strong pick, amplifying Osakabehime’s NP gain while also pushing her damage. In a semi-support role, Kaleid is good for getting her moving faster, while 2030 can help keep the team critting consistently.

Low attack is a weakness of Osakabehime’s, and a pair of grails can help to offset that. That said, I think Osakabehime’s kit is a bit too awkward for her to be worth grailing unless you really like her.

Osakabehime is a neat experiment, but she doesn’t quite come together well enough to be particularly worthwhile. With an extra Buster, or with an ST NP, or with a better duration on her first skill, she might be a strong crit servant, but as-is I think she’s mostly a curiosity. She’s awkward to use and each of her strengths comes with some sort of caveat. As a whole she’s just kind of okay.

Overall: 7/10
Single-Target DPS: 7/10
AoE DPS: 2/10
Survivability: 4/10
Offensive Utility: 6/10
Defensive Utility: N/A
Farming Usefulness: 5/10
Manuscript Progress: 0/10