Thread: [Event 78] Advent Battle vs Nandi

Originally Posted by Kuredo

I know you have a bias against Lolis and all that but Nandi is one of the top stat sticks for Light mains that arent filled with Hecatonchereis, Arch angels or God Kaisers

First of, having 3 of those MLBed still leaves you missing with 2 more for a full mono eido grid for fluffies. And additionally Arch Angel's stats are so shit for a gacha mlb you might be better off using event mlbs.

Kitty and his bias opinion against lolis again, nothing new to see here...

Event-wise, yea, your light stat sticks are Sphinx (2118 atk), St. Nicholas (1950 atk), Yule Goat (1890 atk), Nandi (1986 atk), and for a period of time Abou (1770 atk). Then Abou gets kicked out for Kinshi (1926 atk) if you don't care for Abou's dark atk debuff.
Alternatively, since Sphinx does get a reprint later, one can run two separate max copies of Sphinx if you care only about atk.
Although you'll probably run the light kaiser from orb exchange somewhere in there, so that kicks out Abou or Yule Goat on an atk basis, or St. Nicholas on the basis of 'St. Nick's summon effect freaking sucks'.

yes i'm biased most of the time, but kek it's rlly nothing to do with what she looks like, tho. she has a really bad summon which isn't worth a sub slot for me, regardless of her stats (which I didn't actually remember what they were because i'm brain dead)

I have LB2 Hecat +99 who takes Nandi's place in my sub slot, as they have the same-ish stats Hecat being 2LB+99 compared to Nandi at MLB.
Sphinx, Saint Nick (god awful summon), Yule Goat <3 and God Kaiser. that makes 5, tho. but Tiamat+99/Jorm+99 take the place instead of another light eido just because of their summon/stats rather than support for Managarmr.

sorry for not recalling her stats, tho, that's the only good thing about her I suppose, so good for anyone who doesn't have any light gacha eidos and want to give Managarmr that extra bonus.

and@ guest i'm not a dude, thanks : (

Nandi is a pretty big improvement over St. Nicholas. 570 hp and 1950 attack for St. Nicholas versus 636 hp and 1986 attack for Nandi. For me she'll be replacing Barong since I started late and Barong isn't +99.

Originally Posted by Tanukimo

Nandi is a pretty big improvement over St. Nicholas. 570 hp and 1950 attack for St. Nicholas versus 636 hp and 1986 attack for Nandi. For me she'll be replacing Barong since I started late and Barong isn't +99.

yeah Barong isn't really all that useful too aside from being a main eido just because of her nice elemental bonu, but Nicholas outranks her stat wise as main ad she's elemental too... both have pretty crap summons, but at least Barong's can actually be used even if it does suck... doesn't fucking buff the enemy ugh lmao
but Nandi isn't worth being a main eido since char atk, just a sub slot, def worth repping Barong for tho I guess, since you have Nicholas as a main? eido...

...inb4managarmr

Nandi does not give a big attack boost at only 30%, but gives some 20% extra burst filling rate, so I thought she could be decent as a main Eidolon in a Light burst build I considered - just needs to have lots of friends with Yule Goat, which I have: with Zeal boosted by Nandi, how fast could I Full Burst things?

Giving Berserk as her summon effect, though, beats the purpose of building up burst meter, as one kami wouldn't burst while in Berserk... but then again maybe that hypothetical build would Full Burst so often I will never need more than 10 turns to finish enemies off, and I could avoid using her Summon Attack altogether. Thoughts?

Originally Posted by Geo

Nandi does not give a big attack boost at only 30%, but gives some 20% extra burst filling rate, so I thought she could be decent as a main Eidolon in a Light burst build I considered - just needs to have lots of friends with Yule Goat, which I have: with Zeal boosted by Nandi, how fast could I Full Burst things?

Giving Berserk as her summon effect, though, beats the purpose of building up burst meter, as one kami wouldn't burst while in Berserk... but then again maybe that hypothetical build would Full Burst so often I will never need more than 10 turns to finish enemies off, and I could avoid using her Summon Attack altogether. Thoughts?

in a light burst build, Nandi would be useless... the 20% burst thing probably gives like an extra 2 burst per hit or something trash like that. the burst building is up to the kamis, while you need strong eidos with elemental bonuses rather than char atk.
her rampage summon can also fuck you up since it's a random ally she gives it to. whether it lasts for 1-3 turns, can also fuck over a full burst if you use it at the wrong time... similar to dizzy, fucks you up sometimes.
better to avoid her summon unless you really need some extra damage from ANYONE. the ideal situation to use it in would be just before an enemy is about to wipe you out and you need some extra damage to take her to stun or something.

keep her as a sub eido if you want higher stats/overall atk, otherwise sell her and wait for Kinshi who actually gives all ally zeal as a summon just like Yule Goat.

I see why Nandi is not good at all (maybe the saving grace only being her stats). But anyways, let's go to the math I used:

Each attack gives 10 burst. With Nandi, it would be 12. In hypothesis, given one kami who attacks only once each turn and never gets attacked by the enemy, that character would burst every 10 turns. With Nandi, she'd burst every 9 (12x9) turns.

The Zeal from Yule Goat gives 5 burst every turn, during 3 turns, so lets just consider it a +15 burst effect. If Nandi would increase the Zeal to 6 burst each turn (which I don't know whether she does), it would be +18 burst. The hipothetical kami that never does combos would burst every 7 turns (12x7 +18). Considering combos and enemies who aren't immobille, it is realistically a FB every 6, 5 or even 3 turns (2 triple attacks or 3 doubles, +boosted Zeal).