Green Festival Merlin

Published April 13 2021

Last Updated July 12 2023

## Skill Effects

Power Strike, Infect, Barrier, Restrict Skill Effects, Increase Attack-related Stats

## Skills

 Rank 2
 Rank 3

 Rank 2
 Rank 3

## Hero Guide

[Divine Protection] Merlin, the Daughter of Belialuin, more commonly known as Festival Merlin, “True Form” Merlin, or Loli Merlin, is an HP-attribute hero who was Globally released on April 13th, 2021 as the 6th Festival Hero of 7DSGC. Like pick-up events, she is a guaranteed reward after completing the loyalty gauge for spending 900 Diamonds. Festival Green Merlin is recommended and available to pick up in the Starter Dash banner. Merlin is also available through the SSR ticket given in the 3.5 Anniversary jump box event.

Festival-exclusive units are known to be one of the best heroes in the game. In Festival Merlin’s case, she is exceptional in PVE , particularly in Story Mode battles and Gray Demon Death Matches.

Her skill effects are Infect (Restricts enemy recovery-related stats, disrupts healing) and Power Strike (Additional damage equal in proportion to target’s Resistance) which are highly effective against bosses and tanky heroes. Her Ultimate Move also protects to maintain a high HP percentage.

Stats-wise, Festival Merlin boasts high base attack-related stats (Attack, Pierce Rate, Crit Chance, and Crit Damage), further amplified by her Unique ability. She also has a high HP, Crit Resist, and Crit Defense to aid her survivability. However, she has low base Defense, Regeneration Rate, Recovery, and Lifesteal which requires healing from a support hero in case HP recovery is needed.

### Pros

* Counters all 1-shot burst damage dealers. Limits damage received to 40% Max HP per skill (including Ultimate)
* Extremely effective in PVE content where the boss has high Resistance
* The best DPS option for Gray Demon Death Match

### Cons

* Low secondary HP-related stats (Regeneration Rate, Recovery, and Lifesteal)
* Enemies with range evasion like Bellmoth boss can render her long-range attacks ineffective on it
* Enemies that has after attacks effects can get around her damage cap such as Heroes with Death, Scorch, or Abyss
* Limited in PVP

### Skill Review

**Mana Ballista** - A single-target skill with a Power Strike effect, similar to Red Sariel’s Tornado. Very good in certain PVE content such as Event Bosses or Gray Demon Death Match.

**Double Mana Fusion** - This AOE skill is mainly used to disrupt enemies from recovering HP. Weak in hard PVE content due to many bosses being immune to Infect.

**Ultimate: All Elemental** - Inflicts AOE damage to the enemy team. Festival Merlin additionally creates a barrier on herself based on the amount of damage dealt. While the barrier is active, all Skill Effects are negated (Ex: Amplify, Charge, Sever, Pierce) except for Rupture. Upgrading her Ultimate will also strengthen the Barrier.

**Unique: Bargaining With the Gods** - Festival Merlin’s trademark allows her to survive one-shot burst attacks, limiting the damage received by 40% of her Max HP per attack. In essence, an enemy has to damage Festival Merlin 3 times from full HP to defeat her, no matter how high the damage is inflicted by the enemy although enemies with Death, Scorch, or Abyss can get around the damage cap.

Moreover, Festival Merlin increases her Attack-related stats by 1% for every 4% of remaining HP, which means more damage is dealt if her HP percentage is high. At full HP, she gains a 25% increase in Attack, Pierce Rate, Crit Chance, and Crit Damage.

### Usage

**Equipment Set** - Onslaught (Attack) / Congeniality (Crit Damage)

Substats:

Bracer/Ring - Attack

Necklace/Earring - Defense

Belt/Rune - HP

**Gear Recommendation** - Festival Green Merlin has two situational gear sets for you to use. The first set is the Crit damage and Attack set. This is commonly used with Merlin in PVE activities drawing out the maximum attack power in Merlin's power strike card to pierce through the toughest of bosses.

**PVE (Story / Farm / Sub-Quests / Boss)** - Festival Green Merlin can easily clear most of the PVE content and has a decent clear time because of Merlin’s AOE skills. Considering how high the boss's health and defenses get Merlin's skill effects are also effective against story-mode bosses.

**Early Game PVE** - Festival Green Merlin sufficiently provides much-needed power to clear the game's hard stages and major roadblocks. Since CC becomes a problem throughout the early game Merlin is an excellent unit to pick as her passive can soak up a lot of damage and dish out good damage to mobs.

**Gray Demon** - Festival Green Merlin has an attribute advantage against the Gray Demon. Moreover, she is the best DPS unit to use against it because it has high resistance and Merlin herself holds a Power Strike skill which will deal massive damage to the boss. Plus, the boss can only be damaged with ranged attacks while its flight is active and Merlin fulfills those conditions.

**Training Grotto** - She is mainly used as a counter to Speed-type (Blue) Illusion Ambers, and all Level 3 Blue Goddess Ambers [Goddess Amber Illusion] Hendrickson, [Blue Amber] Obsessed Knight, and [Blue Amber] Warzone Glutton.

 Red Escanor | Resistance +24.6%

## Story

Merlin is the Boar's Sin of Gluttony of the Seven Deadly Sins. She is regarded as the greatest mage in Britannia. Her Sacred Treasure is the Morning Star Aldan, a floating orb she can summon at will and often uses in conjunction with her spells and her inherent power Infinity. The name "Merlin" is an alias as her true name is unpronounceable to humans.

Source: https://nanatsu-no-taizai.fandom.com/wiki/Merlin