Rabbit’s Reviews #380: Nemo (Santa) (4* Rider)

Introduction

Nemo is not a great Servant. He has a mix of loopable damage-dealing and low-end party support, but he’s competing against two other free Servants—Habetrot and Barti, respectively—who are largely better in each of those roles. He has some neat things going for him, including niche damage and some defensive utility, but he doesn’t really do anything that wasn’t already available for free. He’s not inherently terrible—he’s an AoE Arts Servant who’s automatically NP5, he deals good damage to Evil enemies, and he can support the party a bit—but there’s not a clear reason to use him over his competition, which makes him a weak addition to the game.

Servant Data

Rider

QQAAB (Archer)

Quick Card

Arts Card

Buster Card

4

3

5

4

Attribute	Heaven
Alignment	Chaotic Balanced

Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4

Max HP 11,880

HP Rank

Max ATK 8,730

ATK Rank

Base Atk	1,455	Base HP	1,900
Max Atk	8,730	Max HP	11,880
Grail Atk	10,570	Grail HP	14,404

Traits

Riding A

Increase your Quick Card effectiveness by 10%.

Divinity B

Apply Damage Plus for yourself (Total Card Damage +175).

Protection of the Sea God D

Increase own Arts Card Critical Strength by 6%.
Apply Damage Cut by 300 to self in [near water] or [Imaginary Space] battle fields.

Card Hits	4	3	3	5	4
Per Hit	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%	0.51%

	NP per Hit (%)						0.51%
	NP when Attacked (%)						3%

	Star Absorption	208
	Star Generation per Hit	9.0%

Overview

Material Requirements

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	50,000	x1 Santa Bomber Hat
3	150,000	x1 Santa Bomber Hat
4	500,000	x1 Santa Bomber Hat
Max	1,500,000	x1 Santa Bomber Hat

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	100,000	x4 Gem of Rider
2 → 3	200,000	x10 Gem of Rider
3 → 4	600,000	x4 Magic Gem of Rider
4 → 5	800,000	x10 Magic Gem of Rider x5 Seed of Yggdrasil
5 → 6	2,000,000	x4 Secret Gem of Rider x10 Seed of Yggdrasil
6 → 7	2,500,000	x10 Secret Gem of Rider x12 Mystic Gunpowder
7 → 8	5,000,000	x24 Mystic Gunpowder x5 Eternal Ice
8 → 9	6,000,000	x15 Eternal Ice x8 Spirit Root
9 → 10	10,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	100000	x4 Gem of Rider
2 → 3	200000	x10 Gem of Rider
3 → 4	600000	x4 Magic Gem of Rider
4 → 5	800000	x10 Magic Gem of Rider x4 Eternal Gear
5 → 6	2000000	x4 Secret Gem of Rider x8 Eternal Gear
6 → 7	2500000	x10 Secret Gem of Rider x3 Reactor Core of Dawn
7 → 8	5000000	x5 Reactor Core of Dawn x3 Fruit of Eternity
8 → 9	6000000	x9 Fruit of Eternity x20 Ether Light Collector
9 → 10	10000000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Servant Skills

Nemo’s skillset includes a few cool pieces, but it also comes with a handful of key weaknesses that keep Nemo from really shining in any role. Recommended skill order is 3>1>2.

Np Dmg

Holy Night Driver A

Increase NP Strength for all allies (1 turn).
Increase Critical Strength for all allies (1 turn).
Increase ATK for all allies (1 turn).
Further increase ATK for all [Group Servant] allies (3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
NP Damage +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
Crit Damage +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
ATK +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
ATK (Group) +	10%	11%	12%	13%	14%	15%	16%	17%	18%	20%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Holy Night Driver is a Voyager of the Storm variant, giving 20% attack and NP damage up to the whole party for a turn. This is a pretty big supportive damage buff, but unfortunately it’s (usually) the only one Nemo offers, and the fact that it only lasts a turn makes Nemo unappealing as a sustained support pick. It also means Nemo is functionally a Mana-Burster—his own damage output is substantially lower outside of his burst turn. The skill also provides a pitiful 20% crit damage up for a turn, which is much too low to really be noticeable, is on a Servant who makes it actively harder for his allies to crit, and only lasts a single turn. The one other thing this skill offers is a 20%, 3-turn attack buff for Group Servant allies. Nemo is a marginally better support for this pool, which includes Servants who have two characters on the field at once (like Ryoma) as well as some, though not all, who have other characters who show up in certain animations (like Summer Bryn or the Anne Bonny and Mary Read variants). For these Servants, Nemo’s supportive value roughly matches Barti’s, with the caveat that Barti has to NP for full steroid values, but he also supports crits meaningfully while Nemo does not. It’s… not enough to make Nemo an especially appealing support, especially when you consider the lower-cost Servants who can do similar things.

Guts

Undaunting Deliveryperson B+

Apply Guts to self (1 time, 3 turns).
Apply Debuff Immune to self (3 turns).
Increase own NP Gauge each turn by 10% (3 turns).

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Lvl	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Revives with HP	1000	1200	1400	1600	1800	2000	2200	2400	2600	3000
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Indefatigable Deliveryperson is a consistency skill, giving a guts, debuff immunity, and a small passive NP gain. The passive NP charge is important to Nemo’s ability to loop, and debuff immunity can be nice for CQs on occasion, but overall this isn’t an especially remarkable skill. It’s not bad, but it doesn’t do anything to help Nemo stand out.

Arts Up

Nameless Saint EX

Increase own Arts Card effectiveness (3 turns).
Apply Evade to all allies (1 time, 3 turns).
Increase NP Gauge for all allies by 10%.

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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%
CD	8	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	6

Nameless Saint is Nemo’s primary selfish steroid, giving 30% Arts up for 3 turns. It also gives a single hit of dodge to all allies and charges the party’s NP gauge by 10%. The fact that Nemo only has 10% in active NP charge for himself is pretty rough, even if he does get to share it with his allies, and this skill forces Nemo to choose between maximizing his damage and being able to use his party dodge defensively at an opportune time. Partywide dodges and NP charges are cool, but this is about as restrained as those effects get.

Noble Phantasm

	Rank	Classification	Hit-Count
B	Anti-Army	4

Effect	Deal damage to all enemies. Inflict Skill Seal on all enemies (1 turn).

Level	1	2	3	4	5
Damage +	450%	600%	675%	712.5%	750%
Skill Seal

Overcharge Effect	Deal supereffective damage to [Evil] alignment enemies.

Charge	100%	200%	300%	400%	500%
Supereffective ATK +	150%	162.5%	175%	187.5%	200%

Usage Tips

Nemo can just barely loop 2/2/x nodes with two Castorias, an Oberon, and Mana loading. On turn 1, Mana Loading, Nemo’s 10% battery, a Castoria Charisma, and both Castoria targeted batteries brings Nemo to 100%. Nemo refunds about 22% per enemy in this setup, so two targets takes him over 40%, and his passive charge brings him to 50%. Another Castoria Charisma plus Oberon’s 20% battery lets him NP again, and Oberon’s 50% battery secures the loop. He can also do 3/1/x nodes by saving Oberon’s 20% charge for turn 3, though he can’t do 1/3/x, due to the demerit from Oberon’s 50% battery . This is a pretty good level of flexibility for an SR Servant, though of course the elephant in the room is that Habetrot roughly matches Nemo’s burst damage outside of niche, and she can loop basically anything she has the damage to kill. If you’ve been really unlucky with FP, haven’t finished LB6, or just don’t like Habetrot for some reason, Nemo is an option, but Habetrot is mostly just better at anything involving looping.

For CQs, Nemo can run fastburn setups that work basically the same way as the above farming setups. He’s also a decent choice for Arts stall teams, especially those that involve Lady Avalon and Castoria. When stalling, losing out on a bit of damage matters less, so Nemo can save his third skill for when the party really needs an extra bit of defense to get through a tight spot. He’s a pretty consistent Servant, if not an especially strong one, and being bursty isn’t as big of a problem if you’re only NP-ing once every three turns anyway.

As a support, Nemo is best used as a backup damage push in an emergency. He’s a Servant you leave in the backline and let come in to buy a turn of survival and amplify a damage-dealer’s damage output to close out a fight. There are several bronze Servants who are at least as good, if not better, as last-ditch supports, but it’s true that they don’t generally bring both damage and survival. If you can afford to run a taunt CE like Poster Girl on Nemo, you can potentially buy several turns, which can matter if you’re trying to build up to one final NP.

Nemo is a flexible enough looper that the Black Grail is usually his best CE as a damage-dealer. As a support, in addition to the aforementioned taunt CEs, star gen CEs can be nice to partially offset Nemo’s high star weight. You can also give him something like Painting Summer so that after a few turns he’ll be able to NP for a bit of extra damage even if you ignore his cards.

Nemo is a Rider, so even though he’s lacking in crit tools there’s a good chance he’ll find himself with stars now and again. With that in mind, crit damage CCs are a good choice for him—since Nemo doesn’t really have other sources of crit damage up, even in his favored teams, the extra damage the CCs provide is pure benefit.

Grail Potential

Conclusion

Nemo is just really undertuned. If he wasn’t competing so directly with Habetrot and Barti—and, a little more broadly, with the likes of Mozart and Xu Fu—he might feel better. As it is, though, there’s not a lot of call for a janky 12-cost support, or for a AoE Arts Servant whose damage is mostly locked behind a one-turn buff. In an earlier era, he might have been a bit more exciting, but as things stand there’s little reason to use him.

Rabbit's Arbitrary Ratings

Overall: 6/10
Single-Target DPS: 3/10
AoE DPS: 6/10
Survivability: 7/10
Offensive Utility: 5/10
Defensive Utility: 5/10
Farming Usefulness: 5/10
Gift Delivery: 10/10