Rabbit's Reviews #263: Voyager (5* Foreigner)

Straight from Fate/Requiem, the Voyager probe (taking design cues from the Little Prince) arrives as our first-ever Quick Foreigner. Voyager is, at his core, an AoE Quick looper, and while his damage isn’t the greatest, he makes up for it with extremely easy loopage and enough utility to be good outside of strictly top-end setups.

Voyager has very low attack and high HP in a class that has historically had high base attack. The low offensive stat hurts his damage output, though, which is unfortunate on a Servant built for loop clears. His internals aren’t great either, with unimpressive Arts cards and really bad Quicks. He has decent passives, at least, with the default Foreigner passive for free stars, along with unique passives that buff his crit damage, his Arts cards, and his buff removal resistance. The buff removal resistance passive is particularly interesting, and while 10% isn’t enough to count on in survival cases, it can occasionally let Voyager hang on to his offensive buffs against an enemy who tries to clear them.

Ascension Materials

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	100,000	x10 Void's Dust x10 Eternal Gear
3	300,000	x10 Meteor Horseshoe x10 Black Beast Grease
4	1,000,000	x10 Mystic Spinal Fluid x10 Scarab of Wisdom
Max	3,000,000	x10 Shell of Reminiscence x10 Glowing Star Fragment

Skill Enhancement Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	200,000	x10 Eternal Gear
2 → 3	400,000	x10 Mystic Spinal Fluid
3 → 4	1,200,000	x12 Mystic Gunpowder
4 → 5	1,600,000	x12 Aurora Steel
5 → 6	4,000,000	x12 Dawn Core
6 → 7	5,000,000	x15 Egg of Truth
7 → 8	10,000,000	x15 Divine Pulse Spirit Orb
8 → 9	12,000,000	x15 Glowing Star Fragment
9 → 10	20,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Voyager’s skillset is pretty bland, but it’s also reasonably strong given how he wants to function. Recommended skill order is 1>2>3.

It’s tempting to look at Voyager’s ability to loop and immediately peg him into your standard Double Skadi teams—and it’s true that he can loop easily there, with a variety of teams, CEs, and MCs—but in ultra-fastburn teams Voyager’s damage issues may keep him from really excelling. Fortunately, Voyager can also work in slightly slower, slightly lower-investment teams. Skadi/Mash teams can benefit from Voyager’s NP charges to keep the party protected, for example, and Voyager’s utility also makes him a strong point servant for teams involving Quick semi-supports like Lakshmibai, Barti, Summer Carmilla, and Archer Night. This means Voyager still has a place even if he’s not the best at the high-end, as he can be a valuable Quick DPS for players without native Skadi, and he can open interesting team comps for players who do have Skadi and just prefer not to double-up on supports.

All the usual good CEs are nice for Voyager. Voyager’s 50% battery means he usually won’t want Kaleid—he gets started just as easily with Golden Sumo or Traces of Christmas—but any other standard good CEs will be nice here. The Black Grail in particular can help to offset Voyager’s low damage in CQ contexts, and with a full Skadi/Skadi/Waver team and a little bit of card luck Voyager should still be able to tri-loop without issue.

If Voyager is going to be your go-to AoE Quick point servant, grails will help him a lot. Voyager’s low attack is part of why his damage is so unimpressive, so if you’re willing to invest in grails to fix that he’ll be much more reliable in the long run.

Voyager is a Quick looper who falls more on the accessibility end of the spectrum than on the damage end. This means he won’t really shine in top-end play—and at the low-end he still has to compete with Parvati—but he definitely has the potential to be a valuable addition to a less-developed Quick roster, and he can open up new team comps for players who do have developed benches.

Overall: 9/10
Single-Target DPS: 5/10
AoE DPS: 8/10
Survivability: 5/10
Offensive Utility: 6/10
Defensive Utility: 5/10
Farming Usefulness: 8/10
Taming Foxes: 10/10