Blue Summer Merlin

Published August 11 2021

Last Updated December 21 2022

## Skill Effects

Flood, Depletes Ultimate Move Gauge Orbs, Decreases HP-related stats, Disables Attack Skills, Prevents Ultimate Move Gauges from Filling Up

## Association

[Beach Girl] Truth Seeker Merlin can inflict damage on all enemies and deplete Ultimate Move Gauges at the end of enemy's turn.

## Skills

 Rank 2
 Rank 3

 Rank 2
 Rank 3

## Hero Guide

### Summary

Blue Summer Merlin was released in the Summer of 2021 but her viability became low as her stats are low and the debuffs Merlin applies to the enemy team can be debuffed and or Immunity blocked. In the right settings, this unit can become a massive threat to the enemy team as she can stop gameplay as a whole preventing Ultimate Gauge increase and attack cards.

### Pros

* Great support unit for PvP and PvE content
* Unique ability is highly effective at sealing attacks and Ultimate Move gauge of opponents
* A strong choice for Chaos Arena

### Cons

* Unique ability requires using two to three of her skills in a single turn
* Primarily a support unit - not great at DPS on her own
* Merlin's Debuffs can be removed

## Skill Review

**Summer Rocket**: Blue Summer Merlin’s attack skill is similar to Blue “The One” Escanor’s Flood skill. This attack deals with Flood damage between 200% to 500% but is less impactful since she naturally has lower Attack stats and health stats. This card's damage can of course be increased by having appropriate HP gear with attack sub-stats.

**Sandcastle**: Blue Summer Merlin’s debuff skill depletes Ultimate Move Gauge orbs from her opponents at the end of their turn. This is similar to Green Gowther, Green Halloween Gowther, and Blue Emilia’s debuff skill. The number of orbs depleted and the number of turns that the debuff applies increases with higher skill ranks. This Attack card is also an AOE attack so for very good to bypass taunt units to get through their defense and straight to other units.

**Ultimate Move - Frost Blast**: Blue Summer Merlin’s Ultimate Move decreases the HP-related stats of all enemies, which can help counter teams that rely heavily on HP (such as any that include Purgatory Ban). This move also deals with the AOE damage at moderate damage.

**Unique - Building Sandcastles**: Blue Summer Merlin’s Unique is one of her best attributes. If she uses two skills during her allies’ turn, all allies will be prevented from using Attack skills for one turn. This is highly beneficial to use in PvP to prevent opponents from inflicting damage, which makes Merlin a great counter to offensive-heavy PvP teams. Additionally, if she uses three skills during her allies’ turn, all allies will be prevented from having their Ultimate Move Gauges fill for two turns. This can be extremely useful in countering Ult Rush teams which makes Summer Merlin a strategic unit on the field.

## Gear Recommendation

Blue Summer Merlin in today's PVP is mostly utilized as a support unit for her passive and debuffs. That means you will have to build Summer for tankiness and those gear sets will be HP and Defense. These gear sets also give the most CC as realistically you want a Summer Merlin team to go first to earn more mileage out of her passive.

Substats:

* Bracer/Ring - Attack
* Necklace/Earring - Defense
* Belt / Rune - HP

## PVP

Blue Summer Merlin is a fun unit to use inside PVP and Chaos Arena as stated before she can be insanely annoying. There are a lot of combination of teams you can use Summer Merlin on considering Unknown team has a big roster full of great units. One competitive team to use with her is Blue Albedo, Dark Hel, and Blue Nanashi in the back, Hel can be replaced with any Unknown race unit you desire like Red Tyr for more offense or even Green Ram if you want more basic stat increase.

## 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 actually an alias as her true name is unpronounceable to humans.

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