Scathach-Skadi

Caster

Table of Contents

• Status
• Analysis
• Profile

Servant Skills

Append Skills

Class Skills

Noble Phantasm

Assorted Info

ID	215
Cost	16
Gender	Female
Growth	Linear
Inst. Death Chance	30.00%
Damage Distribution Quick	10,20,30,40
Damage Distribution Arts	16,33,51
Damage Distribution Buster	10,20,30,40
Damage Distribution Extra	6,13,20,26,35
Damage Distribution NP

Attack / HP Growth

Stat Ratings

Interlude Quests

Ascension Materials

Stage	Cost	Materials
2	100,000	x5 Caster Piece
3	300,000	x12 Caster Piece x5 Primordial Lanugo
4	1,000,000	x5 Caster Monument x10 Eternal Ice x2 Heart of the Foreign God
Max	3,000,000	x12 Caster Monument x4 Heart of the Foreign God x12 Giant's Ring

Skill Enhancement Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	200,000	x5 Gem of Caster
2 → 3	400,000	x12 Gem of Caster
3 → 4	1,200,000	x5 Magic Gem of Caster
4 → 5	1,600,000	x12 Magic Gem of Caster x5 Eternal Ice
5 → 6	4,000,000	x5 Secret Gem of Caster x10 Eternal Ice
6 → 7	5,000,000	x12 Secret Gem of Caster x3 Primordial Lanugo
7 → 8	10,000,000	x6 Primordial Lanugo x6 Aurora Steel
8 → 9	12,000,000	x18 Aurora Steel x48 Void's Dust
9 → 10	20,000,000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Append Skill Materials

Level	Cost	Materials
1 → 2	200000	x5 Gem of Caster
2 → 3	400000	x12 Gem of Caster
3 → 4	1200000	x5 Magic Gem of Caster
4 → 5	1600000	x12 Magic Gem of Caster x12 Deadly Poisonous Needle
5 → 6	4000000	x5 Secret Gem of Caster x24 Deadly Poisonous Needle
6 → 7	5000000	x12 Secret Gem of Caster x2 Heart of the Foreign God
7 → 8	10000000	x4 Heart of the Foreign God x6 Giant's Ring
8 → 9	12000000	x18 Giant's Ring x10 Egg of Truth
9 → 10	20000000	x1 Crystallized Lore

Total Materials Required

Ascension
Skill
Append Skill
Asc + Skill
Total

Costume Dress Materials

Costume	Cost	Materials
April Fool's	0

Bond CE

Table of Contents

• Status
• Analysis
• Profile

Overview

“Do not forget: You serve me.”

Ice, snow, and cold all bow down to the ever loving goddess of Scandinavia, representing yet another aspect of Scathach in a different mythology. An Arts Support Servant with the ability to supercharge Quick cards and a hefty NP charge, Skadi isn’t just a great Servant, but a Servant who will change how Masters play the game.

Skadi is the undisputed Goddess of the Quick. Taking from her Scathach aspect, through Primordial Rune (Skadi) she grants any servant a massive 50% Quick up boost as well as boosting their Quick critical damage, generating masses of critical stars and improving Quick card NP gain. Not only that, but she’s able to boost any Servant’s NP gauge by 50% with Allfather's Wisdom B+. With these two skills combined, Skadi (with a combination of other Servants) can enable the use of Noble Phantasms three times in a row for a subset of AoE Quick Servants. Her second skill, Shivering Blizzard B, isn’t wasted either, further increasing damage on a single wave via a 3-turn defense down equivalent to some of the strongest attack buffs in the game. If that isn’t enough, her Noble Phantasm, Gate of Skye A+ will boost up her allies’ critical capacity while giving them an evasion, death immunity, and damage cut.

While Skadi has impressive support capacities, she is by no means perfect. Given her Caster classing and lack of offensive Noble Phantasm, her own offensive output will be minimal at best. She also lacks on-demand survivability, with it tied to her Noble Phantasm instead of a skill, and only providing a one-hit evasion. Her NP recharge is also fairly poor since she only has 2 Arts cards compared to the standard 3 for a Caster class, but her high Quick hit counts can make up for the poor spread. She has some difficulty in sustained fights as well, having few sources of damage mitigation (solely damage cut tied to her Noble Phantasm), and no means of restoring health or stalling the enemy. She ultimately is built for encounters that are meant to be over quickly.

Teams built with Skadi as a feature are among the best farming teams in the entire game. Masters would be well served to use her to loop Quick Noble Phantasms and mop the floor with their enemies, even if Skadi doesn’t like killing anyone and is only really interested in ice cream.

Strengths

Weaknesses

Level Up Skill Recommendation

Skadi exists to boost up Quick Noble Phantasms, and her first and third skill work in concert in doing exactly this. Without a doubt, Masters will want to boost these skills up no matter what the expense. Her second skill is much less important, but to make a complete kit is also a requirement.

• Primordial Rune (Skadi) is Skadi’s bread and butter, providing any one Servant with up to 50% Quick up for three turns, as well as boosting the Critical damage of their Quick cards. As Skadi is the queen of Quick, a Master who doesn’t want to level up this skill would best be served with another Servant. This should be leveled to max second, only due to the versatility of charge skills.
• Shivering Blizzard B primarily serves to boost damage on a single wave via a defense down on all enemies. This is typically used on the last wave of an NP loop combo in order to provide certain Servants enough damage to kill the biggest HP enemy. It can also be used for a bit of survivability by reducing critical rates of the enemies, but this rarely comes into practice. The strength of this skill should not be underestimated due to just how much defense down it provides (30%), which is about as strong as any other 3-turn skill in the game for the group. This skill is still important to level, and to max, but can be left for last.
• Allfather's Wisdom B+ makes Skadi one of the select few Servants in the game capable of charging any ally’s Noble Phantasm gauge up by 50%. This skill not only allows for easy to access Noble Phantasms for allies, but at the same time offers certain Servants without a charge the option to use a Mixed Damage / NP Charge CE, or those with a charge to use The Black Grail for further damage increases. There is a huge difference between 50% charge and 46% charge, so this should be leveled first and always to the max level.

Craft Essence Recommendation

Skadi provides so much good to a team, there is not much that she is missing, so her Craft Essence selection should focus on supporting her allies. If a Master wants to access her Noble Phantasm, using a Staring NP Gauge CE with proper setups will allow her the chance. Alternatively, a Master may want to guarantee Critical stars to make use of her Critical Damage boosts, so Critical Stars CEs can be helpful. If a Master wants to protect her from incoming damage, an Invincibility CE may be the best option. Unlike most Servants, her Max Bond CE is also a great option to provide damage support.

• A Fragment of 2030 / Golden Captures the Carp – Skadi provides excellent Quick support and Critical support, but does not have any passive Star generation. By using a CE with star generation, she can provide the team with the tools they need to succeed. Sometimes these stars are only needed on the first turn to let the Quick chains do the rest of the work, so Starting Star CEs are effective.
• Kaleidoscope / The Imaginary Element / Dragon’s Meridian – Skadi’s Noble Phantasm is a powerful boost to her team, but it can be hard to access with her setup. Giving her access to an early gauge gives her a chance to use it.
• Volumen Hydrargyrum / Under the Sun / Parted Sea – Skadi’s damage mitigation is tied to her Noble Phantasm, so CEs which mitigate damage for her can be a boon. However they are often hit-based, making it harder to have an invulnerability ready for the needed Noble Phantasm turn. Volumen Hydrargyrum is the preferred CE, given it can stack separately with Skadi’s Evade, while the others offer an overlapping Evade effect.
• The Love the Gods Bequeathed - Typically, Servants do not want to use the Bond CE as it only gives them 100 ATK / 100 HP. However, Skadi is a support Servant and using her Bond CE to further boost up party Quick performance is a boon to all allies. 

Gameplay Tips

Scathach=Skadi enables looping of Quick-type NPs, which allows for three-turn farming setups that were not possible before her release. Specific Servants with high hit-counts on their NPs and sources of NP Gauge of their own enable this. An article dedicated to running setups for three-turn farming with Skadi can be found here in the Skadi Looping Tier List.

Table of Contents

• Status
• Analysis
• Profile

Other Info

Release Date	7/6/2020
AKA/Alias/Nicknames	Skadi, Scathach (Caster), Goddess of Winter and Mountains, Scathach=Skadi
Country/Place of Origin	Europe
Illustrator	Koyama Hirokazu
Seiyuu (CV)	Noto Mamiko
Series	Fate/Grand Order

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