Rabbit's Reviews #240: Charlotte Corday

Introduction

Charlotte is a solid servant in a vacuum, but she suffers from being dropped into an exceptionally crowded Servant pool. She’s almost strictly a downgrade from Assassin Shiki, she struggles to measure up to Izou, and even if you don’t have them she faces stiff competition from Hundred-Faces Hassan. She’s an entirely usable servant if you like her, but she also doesn’t bring anything new to the table.

Servant Data

Assassin

QQAAB (Archer)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

3

1

5

1

Attribute	Human
Alignment	Neutral Good

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

April Fool's

Max HP 6,220

HP Rank

Max ATK 5,488

ATK Rank

Base Atk	997	Base HP	1,244
Max Atk	5,488	Max HP	6,220
Grail Atk	8,528	Grail HP	9,588

Traits

Card Hits	3	3	1	5	1
Per Hit	0.52%	0.52%	0.52%	0.52%	0.52%

	NP per Hit (%)	0.52%
NP when Attacked (%)	4%

	Star Absorption	100
Star Generation per Hit	24.7%

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	10,000	x2 Assassin Piece
3	30,000	x4 Assassin Piece x5 Void's Dust
4	90,000	x2 Assassin Monument x2 Tearstone of Blood x5 Iron Stake of Evening Tears
Max	300,000	x4 Assassin Monument x10 Iron Stake of Evening Tears x2 Tsukumo Mirror

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	10,000	x2 Gem of Assassin
2 → 3	20,000	x4 Gem of Assassin
3 → 4	60,000	x2 Magic Gem of Assassin
4 → 5	80,000	x4 Magic Gem of Assassin x1 Tearstone of Blood
5 → 6	200,000	x2 Secret Gem of Assassin x2 Tearstone of Blood
6 → 7	250,000	x4 Secret Gem of Assassin x4 Void's Dust
7 → 8	500,000	x7 Void's Dust x1 Cursed Beast Gallstone
8 → 9	600,000	x3 Cursed Beast Gallstone x24 Iron Stake of Evening Tears
9 → 10	1,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Death Chance Up

Angel of Assassination A

Increase own Instant-Death Success Rate (1 turn).
Apply Evade to self (2 times, 3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Death Rate +	50%	55%	60%	65%	70%	75%	80%	85%	90%	100%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Angel of Assassination is what most sets Charlotte apart from her competition. The IK success buff is a trap—this is meant to be used exclusively for survival. It’s a PfA-type skill, which adds a lot of effective bulk to a servant who’s otherwise quite squishy, and Charlotte’s Arts focus means Tamamo can take the already-short cooldown and make it even shorter.

Shield Break

Iron Determination D

Apply Ignore Invincible to self (1 turn).
Increase own ATK (1 turn).
Increase own Debuff Resist (3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Attack +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Debuff Res +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Iron Determination is a much weaker version of Dantes’s skill of the same name. As Mana Burst type skills go, this is really bad. It caps at 30% instead of the usual 50% and it has an extra turn of cooldown. Granted, Pierce invuln is nice and Charlotte has really good total steroids if she gets lucky with her third skill, but in and of itself this skill is kind of offensive. The debuff resistance buff is also too low to really matter in most circumstances.

Special ATK

Haphazard Planning D+

Random effect (three possible):
Increase own Arts Card effectiveness (3 turns) OR
Increase own Critical Strength (3 turns) OR
Increase own NP Strength (3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Arts +	20%	21%	22%	23%	24%	25%	26%	27%	28%	30%
Crit Damage +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
NP Damage +	30%	32%	34%	36%	38%	40%	42%	44%	46%	50%
CD	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	5

Haphazard Planning can be really good or basically dead depending on how lucky you are. It randomly gives Charlotte an Arts buff, a Crit damage buff, or an NP damage buff. The NP damage buff is the jackpot here—with it and Iron Determination, Charlotte can just barely outdamage HFH—and the Arts buff also gives Charlotte respectable (albeit noticeably lower) damage. The crit buff, however, is effectively dead. Charlotte is a servant with horrible attack and no good way to draw stars, which means she’ll have trouble utilizing the crit buff and even when she is able to crit she’s not going to hurt that much. It’s also worth noting that while the Arts and NP damage buffs last three turns, the short duration on Iron Determination means Charlotte’s subsequent NP damage won’t be all that great even if she does pull one of the better buffs here, which hinders her sustained damage output somewhat.

Noble Phantasm

Le Rêve Ensoleillé C

Removes a single enemy's Evasion buffs.
Deals significant damage to the target that ignores DEF.

<Overcharge>

Chance to inflict Death to the target.

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Le Rêve Ensoleillé

For Love of Country, and for a Dream as if to Drown in

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
	C	Anti-Unit	1

Effect	Removes a single enemy's Evasion buffs. Deals significant damage to the target that ignores DEF.

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Buff Removal
Ignore Defense
Damage +	900%	1200%	1350%	1425%	1500%

Overcharge Effect	Chance to inflict Death to the target.

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
Death Chance +	60%	70%	80%	90%	100%

Charlotte’s NP damage will fluctuate considerably depending on which of her buffs she happens to have access to. At the upper end, if she gets her NP damage buff and has Iron Determination available, she can do roughly 39k. At the lower end, if she pulls her crit damage buff and Iron Determination is on cooldown, she’ll do about 20k. For some perspective, post-buff Kojirou gets ~32k every single time he uses his NP, and HFH gets ~37k assuming her Arts buff procs (which has better odds than Charlotte getting either of her good buffs) and can scale up to 43k if she can NP again within three turns. This basically means Charlotte’s burst NP damage is roughly comparable to her free competition on the upper end, but she’s both less reliable and less sustainable. And, of course, Shiki blows her out of the water if your account is old enough to have her.

The advantage Charlotte has over everybody but Shiki is that with Iron Determination up she pierces all types of defensive buffs, and unlike Shiki she even gets through (removable) dodges on off-turns. This, coupled with her PfA-like, is the biggest gameplay reason you might consider using her over her direct competition. In fights where enemies spam defensive buffs, Charlotte can potentially be more consistent in practice just due to her ability to get through said buffs.

Usage Tips

Grail Potential

Conclusion

I’m not sold on Charlotte’s kit. She’s reliable in the sense that she has a great survival tool and gets through all defensive buffs, but her damage is output is basically limited to her burst-turn NP and that damage isn’t even particularly consistent. If you missed Shiki, she’s probably worth leveling just to have an on-demand answer to defensive buffs, but I don’t think she’s particularly worthwhile outside of those situations, and she really struggles to measure up to the other ST Arts Assassins.

Rabbit's Arbitrary Ratings

Overall: 5/10
Single-Target DPS: 6/10
AoE DPS: N/A
Survivability: 6/10
Offensive Utility: N/A
Defensive Utility: N/A
Farming Usefulness: 1/10
The Death of Marat: 10/10