#fate spartacus

[kiwikipedia]

ngl I’m glad that Jing Ke and Spartacus’ friendship has been consistent through the run of FGO, it’s something that’s so much to me

[300iqprower]

okay we gotta ask: Spartacus?

Favorite thing: Every line of his is a complete toss up between more shakespearean than literal Shakespeare, comedy perfection, or utter nonsense. All of these are positive outcomes.

Least favorite thing: His design pre final form and also see my Avicebro response. Also why the fuck does he have the lowest attack in the game how in god's name was that greenlit.

Favorite Line: I have an entire album of them but to pick one at random, "Vanquishing and opponent after you have helped to keep them weak is only another form of oppression. It is only when they have fangs with which to fight, and hope for the future, that competition may begin...For justice can only be attained when two opposing rebellions clash."

Favorite Image: This one

Song I associate with them (My Specialty):

honestly i could list like a dozen Sabaton songs but i think these two in particular fit

...and I can't not mention a certain other song

[demytasse]

Going up against Spartacus during the Apocrypha raids with Melt has been an experience.

[mat2modblog]

My new kitten was described as a “Houdini” (though she doesn’t try to make a run for it when I open the hall door, IDK)

[millenniumsorceress]

FGO really has me out here crying over Spartacus. What a legend.

[thefatecrate]

Spartacus, happily sharing his passion with his master after receiving their gift: rebellion!!! :D!!!

Guda, now shackled but still wanting to be supportive: I,, y.eah. yeah rebellion!! can you please help me get out of these .

[wellokaythen-archive]

An important PSA from the Shadow Border

Inspired by: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQ-O3tyW_5M

[300iqprower]

Hypothetical Rank Ups No. 27&28: Spartacus

Honor of Suffering B+ -> Honor of Rebellion EX

Recovers own HP every turn (5 turns).^ + When attacked, increase own ATK (5 turns) and increase own NP Gauge by 10% (5 turns). [CDR: 9/8/7 -> 8/7/6]

Crying Warmonger A+ -> A++

Deal heavy damage to all enemies that ignores DEF Up. + Apply Ignore DEF to self (3 turns).   <Overcharge>  Greatly restore your HP. + Deals extra damage when your HP is low. Extra damage formula = [multiplier based on Overcharge] x  [1 - (Current HP/Max HP+2000)]

Kicking off some Apoc gang rankups, I’ve got a question. Do you know what oppression is? It’s making a 1 star berserker with universal weakness and among the lowest hp possible focused on HP regen, in a game whose design naturally oppresses soft survival. You know what TRUE Oppression is? Making a Berserker, a class dedicated to offense, have THE LOWEST ATTACK IN THE GAME. So let’s fix both of those by making Spartacus’s Defense Ignore more meaningful and improving his skill so bad they already felt a need to rank it up before even giving him his third skill.

So yeah, no longer suffering in silence, now actively rebelling against his attackers, on hit Spartacus gains a flat 10% NP (Subject to change) as his Noble Phantasm builds up, and gains a scaling attack buff that lasts an independent 5 turns, meaning they can stack to quite a large degree. Putting this alongside the cooldown reduction to only as little as only 1 turn of downtime and the healing itself being increased by another 300HP to a maximum of 1800 per turn at level 10, this could ideally even overcome his inherently terrible stats if the team is specifically built around Spartacus. 

As for his NP, the Ignore defense is now no longer strictly the NP itself. This not only makes his typical challenge quest niche of ignore defense berserker more viable, it mitigates his bad stats that much more because I really truly cannot overstate how godawful his attack is and he deserves for this if not for 3 turns certainly at least 1 for the full length of an NPBB chain. More importantly though, he has what I’ve been asking for ages why he wouldn’t have from the start, since it’s LITERALLY HIS LORE THAT THE HARDER YOU HIT HIM THE HARDER HE HITS BACK..........a question I realized actually has an answer as I worked this out. Spartacus is heal oriented to the point his stim has a built in heal, meaning even if you time his 1hp guts to be the turn of his NP, using his main damage buff in his third skill will immediately make that as much as 2001, which is why the formula has that 2000 added in. This actually doesn’t overdo it at all though since the factor being Max HP means Spartacus was already unfairly hurt by his bad stats from it compared to every other unit with a Low HP Damage Bonus NP. I also did the math, and the increase in damage from his buster stim DOES outweigh the decrease from gaining HP back.

So there we go. 2 different ways to combat Spartacus’s biggest and most egregious issue. The need to fix it and the useless nature of healing at this point is also why i didnt ditch the offensive buffs and reduce cooldown and increase healing further, to give Spartacus at max perpetual healing, even though lore wise that’s a perfect fit. But I think these two fit him as well and synergize well since his affinity means the damage he’s taking that gives him NP and attack will very likely trigger his 1hp guts on all but the most defensive support teams, in turn lining up a low HP NP. Oh, and remember: