Francis Drake

Francis Drake is a servant that is well-balanced in terms of damage and utility, providing damage boost and critical stars to the party while still able to deal a huge chunk of damage on her own. Although she do not have any defensive skills, it is usually neglected due to her high offensive capabilities.

• High Star Generation and Absorption:

  10 critical stars from Pioneer of the Stars EX and 20 critical stars from her Noble Phantasm overcharge effect, Drake is a monster when it comes to star generation. Even though it might still be insufficient to supply the whole party with critical stars on her own, Drake’s high star absorption made up for it by absorbing almost all the stars for herself to unleash high critical combos next turn.

• Buster-focused Rider:

  Although Drake is classify as a Rider class servant, her command cards layout of QAABB is similar to those that Sabers have, making her a rare Rider that focused on Buster cards especially when her NP is also a Buster type.

• Efficient NP Charging Rate:

  With a NP charging rate of 0.42% per attack and minimum of 1.68% per Arts card, Drake’s ability to charge up her NP gauge can further be increased through her Golden Rule B skill and not to forget Pioneer of the Stars EX that directly charged her NP gauge by 50%.

• Only One Quick Card:

  With only one Quick card in her command cards layout, Drake is kind of in a weird spot where she might have problems generating stars besides using her skills.

Drake fits the role of primary attacker by gaining large amount of critical stars and devastate the enemy with critical hits. Her NP is mainly used as a sweeper to deal large amount of AOE while chaining with another servant’s NP, not to forget that her first skill also increases the party’s NP damage and attack for a turn.

Drake’s Noble Phantasm, Golden Wild Hunt deals AOE damage to the enemies while generating critical stars. The NP itself doesn’t really deal a lot of damage but mainly used as a star generator or to link with another NP due to how efficient it is for Drake to charge up her NP gauge.

Deals damage to all enemies.
[Overcharge]Gain critical stars.

Deals damage to all enemies.
[Overcharge]Gain critical stars.

Drake’s third skill should be maxed out as the top priority as it packs NP charges, critical stars gain and the ability to pierce invincibility, all within a skill. What more can you ask for? After that, focus on maxing her first skill which increases the party’s attack and NP damage for a turn. Her second skill should be left as the last skill to be levelled as her main NP gain comes from her third skill.

Available from the start
Increases party's NP damage for 1 turn.
Increases party's attack for 1 turn.

Unlocks after 1st Ascension
Increases own NP generation rate for 3 turns.

Unlocks after 3rd Ascension
Charges own NP gauge.
Own attacks will ignore invincibility for 3 turns.
Gain 10 critical stars.

Drakes’s command cards all have high number of hits per card with six hits on Quick, four hits on Arts and two hits on Buster. Therefore it is to aim for overkill with Drake for additional critical stars.

Rashoumon event (Ibaraki Douji event)

Murder at the Kogetsukan

Inheritance of Glory