Gorgon

As classes who deal extra damage only against Rulers and Berserkers, Avengers usually end up having little time to shine. As such, they usually come with skillsets that allow them to deal good amounts of damage to make up for their small niche. Sadly, none of the non-SSR Avengers are that good.

Aside from being overshadowed by Jeanne Alter in overall damage, Gorgon suffers from a skillset that offers a few good features but lacks the most vital tool to make her truly good.

• High crit damage potential with her 2 skills, Busters, and multiplier
• High chance to stun with her maxed 3rd skill
• Good stat distribution for her role
• Good ranks on her passives

• NP gain is low overall with her hitcounts
• NP damage is incredibly weak
• Her low star generation and absorb gives her no way to create or absorb stars, bringing down her consistency
• Burst phase is too short and downtime too long

It’s hard to make Gorgon look good. With a 50% ATK up, 56% Crit damage up, and 3 Busters including her NP, one would assume she hits fairly hard.

Sadly, she is hindered by multiple factors that make her subpar in offense. With only 1 Quick and only 3 hits on them, she has no way of creating stars for her to crit with. On top of that, she also lacks a star absorb of any kind, which means even if you use supports to provide stars for her, she would have a hard time absorbing them.

And when she’s able to absorb them, her ATK up lasts for only one turn, and her crit damage up lasts for 3 turns but has a cooldown of 7 turns at max, which means her burst time is extremely short and her downtime is extremely long.

If put curtly, Gorgon simply lacks too much consistency. She has no way of using her skills to full effect reliably, and even if she’s able to use them well, the buffs go away so quickly and recharge for a long time, which severely limits the amount of damage you’re able to give out.
She has good potential if she crits, but she can’t crit in the first place, and the amount of effort you have to make to ensure she does simply isn’t worth the cost and compensation.

That said, Gorgon does have some good damage if she crits, and she does have good utility like her passives and stun. It would be best to pair her with supports that can provide her Buster ups to bump up her crit damage, and with supports who can generate a lot of stars for her to be able to get some.

Gorgon’s Noble Phantasm can only be described as mediocre. As an AoE Buster that hits for only three times, it deals very little damage at NP1 and generates a sparse amount of stars. It also has mediocre effects like applying curse to the enemy, and while the 10% Aoe NP refund is nice, it’s too small of an amount to be actually relevant, not to mention the fact that Gorgon can’t charge her NP fast enough to use it often as a tool for the team anyway.

A Buster up would increase Gorgon’s damage very well, as it would multiply with her great ATK up skill. It would also increase her NP damage decently.

Due to Gorgon’s lack of a star absorb, it would be good to increase her star absorption through a CE, as it would increase her consistency by a good amount.

Damages All Enemies
Applies curse (5 Turns)
Allies Gain 10% NP
[Overcharge]Increases Curse Damage

Priority: 1 / 2 / 3 or 2 / 1 / 3

• Monstrous Strength A+ / Cooldown: 7-5

  Increase own ATK (1 turn)
  An ATK up that scales for an incredible 50% at max. This lets Gorgon hit for good amounts of damage with her Busters, especially since she has a good amount of ATK on her. Sadly, it only lasts for 1 turn, which limits her ability to deal damage to a very short amount of time.

• Demonic Mutation B / Cooldown: 9-7

  Apply Guts (5 turns) (1 time)
  Increase crit damage (3 turns)
  An increase in crit damage is a very great tool to increase Gorgon’s offensive power. Especially with her deck and its 50% percentage at max, Gorgon is able to dish out great amounts of damage in the event that she crits. However, as she has low absorb rates and lacks any skill to boost it, using this skill to full effect can prove to be very difficult. Considering how it also has a 4 turn cooldown at max, and how her ATK up lasts for only 1 turn, it would be hard to use this for consistent damage.
  However, although the two effects together is a bad combination on one skill, the guts is a good survival function.

• Mystic Eyes A++ / Cooldown: 8-6

  Chance to apply stun on an enemy
  A stun is a very useful skill to counter gimmicks in hard fights, and scales for a very good amount. The extra 5% may seem excessive, but it can be useful against enemies with Magic Resistance.

Available from the start
Increases own attack for 1 turn.

Unlocks after 1st Ascension
Grants self guts status for 5 turns(1 time).
Increases own critical damage for 3 turns.

Unlocks after 3rd Ascension
Chance to stun one enemy for 1 turn.

A QAABB deck is honestly not the best fit for Gorgon, since a QQABB deck would have let her create more stars for herself. Her NP gain on her cards aren’t particularly amazing as well, so a deck that increased her overall consistency would have been more beneficial for her.

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