Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime

MLB Effect: Critical Hit [40%] & Evade [35%] (Self / 1 Turn)

Effect Definitions:

Critical Hit is a granted effect that will make an attack do double damage. Critical Hit does not stack and if there are two sources of it, the highest percentage will be used.

Evade is an effect that will let a character dodge attacks for the turn it is active. It is a granted effect. Characters with Status Ailments cannot evade, and attacks such as Chase, Counter, Magia, and Doppels also cannot be evaded. Evade does not stack and if there are two sources of it, the highest percentage will be used.

TLDR: “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” is Enhancement Fodder.  This memoria is exclusive to the “Night Fairytale” event shop. This is event memoria and it should be kept in case of a rerun.

Review: “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” is an interesting memoria with a few problems. The biggest issue it has is that neither of its effects will stack, meaning that you can’t increase your Critical Hit chance higher than 40% or your Evade higher than 35% when using this (unless you’re using another ability that gives you better effects, but that would make using this memoria a complete waste).

Another thing to note here is that the effects don’t have any synergy. They don’t work against one another, but you probably won’t find yourself in a situation where you need both Critical Hit and Evade at the same time. Of course, you might be in situations where you want to deal more damage while protecting yourself at the same time, but there are many better memoria in the game that can do this. But let’s address each effect separately before we discuss alternatives.

Let’s take a look at Evade first. There aren’t actually that many active memoria that can let you Evade in the game:

(Limited 4*) “Lightning Blitz” Evade [50%] & Critical Hit [40%] (Self / 1 turn)

(4*) “I Love It So Much That I Can Fly” Evade [40%] & Damage Increase [35%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(3*) “Good Things May Lead to Disaster” Evade [40%] (Self / 1 turn) & Status Ailment Resistance Up [25%] (Self / 3 turns)

“Lightning Blitz” is a Crossover event reward, so realistically your only two options of having active Evade from a memoria would be either “I Love It So Much That I Can Fly” or “Good Things May Lead to Disaster.” Both memoria give an extra 5% Evade chance when max awakened, but these percentages are low enough that they don’t feel worth using.

Evade is a defensive move. What better method is there of protecting yourself by denying the enemy a chance to hurt you? But this only works if the Evade itself actually works. The 35% chance offered by “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” is low... maybe one attack out of the three will miss your character. Why deal with such bad odds if you can use a more defensive memoria instead, such as one that gives Damage Cut or Defense Up?

Really, the Evade chance here is like a bad gamble-- you have a chance of taking no damage at all, or taking every hit thrown at you with no reduction in potency. And funny enough, that’s how the Critical Hit on this memoria works as well.

Comparing the Critical Hit on “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” can make the memoria seem temporarily viable:

(4*) “Pinch Is a Chance” Critical Hit [70%] & Defense Pierce [50%] (Self / 1 Turn) & Darkness (Self) [100%] & Dazzle [70%] (Self)

(3*) “Girls With Glasses on a Date” Critical Hit [45%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 3*) “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” Critical Hit [40%] & Evade [35%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Image Training in the Server” Critical Hit [35%] & Attack Up [40%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Fulfilling the Sworn Promise” Critical Hit [35%] & Anti-Evade [100%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(Limited 4*) “The Wind Rising Before The Resolve” Critical Hit [30%] & Attack Up [30%] & Defense Up [37.5%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(4*) “People Who Like a Person She Hates” Critical Hit [30%] & Accele MP Gain Up [20%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(4*) “The One and Only Contradiction” Critical Hit [30%] & Damage Cut [25%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(Limited 3*) “Dive into Summer (Alina/Mifuyu)” Critical Hit [30%] & Blast Damage Up [40%] (Self / 1 turn)

(Limited 4*) “Everyone Gets Along Paradise” Attack Up [25%] & Critical Hit [30%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Determined to Believe” Critical Hit [25%] & Attack Up [20%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “I Am Me” Critical Hit [20%] & Attack Up [15%] & Defense Up [22.5%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(3*) “The Future Goes Up in Flames” Critical Hit [15%] & Anti-Evade [100%] (Self / 3 Turns)

Somehow, this crappy little event shop memoria offers a competitive amount of Critical Hit when compared to other memoria in the game. However, we come back to a problem: Critical Hit doesn’t stack. Why use “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” when you could use the unlimited three-star memoria “Girls With Glasses on a Date,” which gives an extra 5% chance? Normally a measly 5% chance is negligible, but Critical Hit doesn't stack after all-- why not get the highest percentage you can, especially when the alternative isn’t hard to get?

Really, the problem with this memoria is that it’s gameplay is about gambling with bad odds. You might get a Critical Hit off and you might be able to Evade an attack, but you also might not. If this was a case where it’s hard to acquire memoria that can increase damage while also protecting you then it might be understandable why a person would use this memoria, but this isn’t the case. There are many better memoria that can do this better than “Beach Nagisa's Afternoon Naptime” can, and some of them are just as easy to grab:

(3*) “She'll Definitely Be Happy” Attack Up [40%] & Defense Up [52.5%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Despair-Inviting Death Screams” Attack Up [30%] & Anti-Counter [100%] & Endure [100%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(Limited 4*) “Mami of the Land of Sweets” Attack Up [30%] & Anti-Counter [100%] & Endure (Self / 1 turn)

(4*) “Survival Date on a Deserted Island” Attack Up [30%] & Defense Up [37.5%] & Anti-Debuff [2 Debuffs] (Self / 3 Turns)

(4*) “I Won't Stray From This Path” Attack Up [30%] & Defense Up [37.5%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(Limited 4*) “How About Delicious Chocolate?” Attack Up [25%] & Defense Up [30%] & Regenerate HP [6%] (Self / 3 turns)

(3*) “Splash Party!” Damage Increase [40%] & Damage Cut [35%] (Self / 1 Turn)

(4*) “Past and Future” Damage Increase [30%] & Damage Cut [25%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(Limited 4*) “Miracle Reporters” Damage Increase [25%] & Damage Cut [20%] (Self / 3 Turns)

(Limited 4*) “The Loving Heart that Wields the Brush” Damage Increase [25%] & Damage Cut [20%] (Self / 3 turns)

If you absolutely must use Evade or Critical Hit, then you’re better off using connects to do so instead.

In a Broken World

Obtainability: You can get one copy from completing all three of the unit’s MSS, and the rest can be rolled from the Support Fate Weave. Usable by Homura Akemi (Cool) only.

Good Things May Lead to Disaster

Single Effect: Evade [40%] (Self / 1 turn) & Status Ailment Resistance Up [20%] (Self / 3 turns )

MLB Effect: Evade [40%] (Self / 1 turn) & Status Ailment Resistance Up [25%] (Self / 3 turns )

Effect Definitions:

Evade is an effect that will let a character dodge attacks for the turn it is active. It is a granted effect. Characters with Status Ailments cannot evade, and attacks such as Chase, Counter, Magia, and Doppels also cannot be evaded. Evade does not stack, with the highest percentage being used.

Status Ailment Resistance Up will decrease the chance of the equipped target to be afflicted by a Status Ailment. Note that even at 100%, it is still possible for a character to be hit by a Status Ailment. This effect will stack.

TLDR: This memoria is Enhancement Fodder.

Review: “Good Things May Lead to Disaster” is the only unlimited active memoria in the game (as of writing this) to have Evade chance. There is one other memoria, but it’s the limited “Lightning Blitz” from the Nanoha Crossover event, and it’s very unlikely that NA Refugees will be able to get their hands on it.

So for most folks reading this blog, “Good Things May Lead to Disaster” is their best bet at an active Evade. Does that mean they should keep this memoria?

Nah.

40% Evade chance is pretty low, and Evade itself doesn’t stack-- so the memoria ultimately feels pretty lackluster. If you’re hoping the Evade will protect your character, it’s possible that they might evade for one or two hits... But it’s not assured. You’re better off equipping a memoria that gives more straight-forward defensives, such as Defense Up or Damage Cut.

It’s a shame, because the two effects here actually synergize pretty well. One way Evade can fail is if the evading target is hit with a Status Ailment-- so a memoria that gives Evade and Status Ailment Resistance makes it so that you won’t need to worry about Ailments themselves, and more about Anti-Evades.

Speaking of which, the Status Ailment Resistance is nice, but there are other better memoria in the game that can offer it, such as the unlimited three-star “Going Round and Round Wednesday” or the unlimited four-star memoria “Formally Deciding.”