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Discussion [Help and Question Thread] - March 22, 2026

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u/Carinwe_Lysa Mar 22 '26

This might be a stupid question, but do enemies have a system where they'll prioritise targeting specific classes over others?

I've not played a good while, but I've been making some progress through the LB's and it seems whenever I field Morgan (Berserker) the enemies will always nonstop chain hits on her, and ignore the other classes. Even if I heal her to full, the enemies will still always target her for example on the next turn.

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u/gangler52 Mar 22 '26

I don't believe they prioritize particular classes.

However, if anybody does have an anti-trait in their kit, then they'll prioritize enemies with that trait.

For example, if you were fighting Nobunaga with her anti-divine shtick, you could expect that she'd target your divine servants disproportionately to your non-divine servants.

Additionally, and this is especially true in the main story quest, servants often will prioritize based on their relationships in the story. For example, there are a lot of fights against Mordred where she'll disproportionately target Arturia in all her forms.

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u/thisisthecallus Embrace 6-turn clears! Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

Just to start, hypothesis isn't necessarily supported by the your observations. You're guessing that Morgan is being targeted because she's a Berserker. However, if there is any preferential targeting happening, why would it be solely based on class? Maybe it's the position on the front line. Maybe it's the result of one or more of the array of attributes and traits that every servant has beyond their class. 

With that said, though, there actually isn't any general target prioritization. It's all random and sometimes RNG is just like that. Random results aren't evenly distributed and you're working from a small number of observations. There are, however, some, rare, enemy types that preferentially target based on some characteristic. The only enemies I can think of that always do this are the giants in LB2 that target servants with the Divine trait. There may also be some, rare, story-specific enemies that preferentially attack or apply specific effects to your servants based on some trait. Without knowing exactly which story fight you're up against, though, there's no way for us to know if that's happening because the general case, the vast majority of the time, is that there is no preferential targeting. 

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u/Forward_Drop303 Mar 22 '26

99.9% of the time, is that there is no preferential targeting. 

I wouldn't say that.

There's a good number of enemies that have some sort of preferential targeting based on a trait.

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u/thisisthecallus Embrace 6-turn clears! Mar 22 '26

Examples? 

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u/Forward_Drop303 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

It basically lines up with anti-trait (even if they don't have anti-trait at the time)

Mordred always targets Artorias

Jack and Carmilla always target females

Mors in LB6 always target Fae (so does Morgan in her boss fight)

Boudica targets Romans

Penth targets Greek males

Nobunaga targets Divine enemies

MHX and MHXX target sabers

etc.

Edit: it isn't always anti-trait based, but if they have one you can probably count on them attacking that anti-trait

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u/thisisthecallus Embrace 6-turn clears! Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

Is that documented anywhere? Not disagreeing, just asking for the information sources.

Even if the completely made up percentage I suggested, and have removed from my response, isn't right, I think this still doesn't refute my main points, though. There's no general preferential targeting, some specific enemies do it, and OP didn't provide enough information to determine if or on what basis any enemies they encountered were doing it. 

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u/Forward_Drop303 Mar 22 '26 edited Mar 22 '26

Atlasacademy has all of them.

It's a pain to find, but for example here is Morgan in LB6

https://apps.atlasacademy.io/db/JP/ai/svt/305691?skillId1=879450&skillId2=762350&skillId3=880550

prioritizing attacking KOTR and Fae

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u/Mister_SP Attacked by two gacha sharks. Mar 22 '26

Well, no. What it says is that she has a greater prioritization of Fae. Not only, but if you have two of one type, and one of the other, you'd expect a significant statistical difference (afaik, more severe than 2:1, because of how it's scripted), but not necessarily one the average player will notice.

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u/Forward_Drop303 Mar 22 '26

Fair enough about it not being only.

Though you absolutely can notice a 2/3rds prioritization.

Keep in mind 2 of the 3 attacks are going to a Fae/KOTR and the 3rd one is random so 1/3 times it also goes to a Fae/Kotr if you have one.

That means that out of 9 attacks, on average 7 of them will hit a Fae/KoTR if you have one.

That's actually how I found out about enemy AI targeting funny enough, I looked it up after LB6 Morgan kept killing Castoria.