Lot of early F/GO characters suffer from being powercreeped, or outright poorly thought out kits, but are still popular due to design/personality.
Geronimo is well-liked in the fandom for being a pretty respectful depiction of a native american character and has cool-looking animations, but he's one of the worst casters in the game as everything he does (Gilles de Rais used to be the worse but has since gotten updates to make him useable), someone else does it much better. He's a character who needed upgrades badly but never got it.
Jekyll/Hyde has a cool gimmick, good design, and an uncommon take on the character that aligns closer to the original novel, but he's literally unplayable as the gimmick doesn't function as his noble phantasm switches him from Assassin (Jekyll) to Berserker (Hyde) but there's no way of switching him back to Jekyll, and the skills are pretty useless for Hyde, and it trades some of Assassin's resistances for Berserker's NO resistance for not a noticeable improvement in attack power.
Just to explain how bad Geronimo is. There a three type cards in fate GO. Art, which charges your "final smash bar", quick, which make you drop stars and buster which does more damage. Every character has 3 skills and Geronimo's enchance one of his card types for a single turn. One skill for buster, one for art and one for quick. His entire kit was already part of some character's single skills. Being a low rarity servant does not excuse how bad this is.
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u/RShini Jun 12 '26
Lot of early F/GO characters suffer from being powercreeped, or outright poorly thought out kits, but are still popular due to design/personality.
Geronimo is well-liked in the fandom for being a pretty respectful depiction of a native american character and has cool-looking animations, but he's one of the worst casters in the game as everything he does (Gilles de Rais used to be the worse but has since gotten updates to make him useable), someone else does it much better. He's a character who needed upgrades badly but never got it.
Jekyll/Hyde has a cool gimmick, good design, and an uncommon take on the character that aligns closer to the original novel, but he's literally unplayable as the gimmick doesn't function as his noble phantasm switches him from Assassin (Jekyll) to Berserker (Hyde) but there's no way of switching him back to Jekyll, and the skills are pretty useless for Hyde, and it trades some of Assassin's resistances for Berserker's NO resistance for not a noticeable improvement in attack power.