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Overview

FX-05 is a 4-star counterpart to Type 95. Her skill, Serpent Clutch Hunting, sports a similar skill with incredibly high uptime (15/16) and a short initial cooldown of 2 seconds. However, FX-05 trades some of the potency of her already lower skill multiplier for a unique 5% rate of fire selfbuff for every firepower buff she receives, for up to 8 of them stacked up at once, that lasts the rest of the duration of the active skill. Note that, like As Val Mod’s skill 2, this skill is counting firepower buffs received during skill, so tiles and buffs that were given before FX-05 activated. After her skill’s 15s duration stops, all counted stacks are discarded, meaning they will not carry over to the next 15s. Because of this, it’s very unlikely for FX-05 to reach her 8 stack limit in a normal team. Needless to say, FX-05 plays well with irregular sources of firepower buffs such as the Fervor talent and Python to gain stacks. However, FX-05 works decently well when set up in a normal team, and going out of your way to provide her more FP buffs can often weaken the team overall due to neglecting the AR or overcapping FX-05’s RoF. Grizzly can do better than Python quite often despite providing fewer stacks. In the end, the numbers work out so that FX-05 never rises above her station, and usually performs ever so slightly worse than Type 95. There are certainly better options out there for doing what FX-05 can, but she would make an okay budget or 4th stringer AR.

Pros

Super High Uptime

As usual for her archetype, FX-05 sports a 15/16 skill uptime compared to the usual 5/8. This is excellent for dealing sustained DPS rather than in bursts.

Low Initial Cooldown

Also usual for her archetype, FX-05 has a 2 second initial cooldown, letting her lessen enemy pressure by dealing the DPS earlier.

High Base Firepower

FX-05’s 54 Firepower is slightly high for an AR.

Cons

Threat of Overcapping

FX-05 can quite easily overcap her own rate of fire when given a chip and enough firepower buffs, making investment into her skill gimmick not very profitable.

Full analysis

Figuring out what to do with FX-05 is a bit of a pain. For some in depth math, the usefulness of FX-05’s stacks varies wildly, and can potentially overcap her given strong enough RoF tiles, enough stacks, and a #2 Processor Chip equipped. Here is a table of what stacks will do, with the frame FX-05 falls into put in parenthesis. From this, a general recommendation would be to not worry about giving FX-05 too many stacks. With even the smallest of SMG tile buffs she can threaten to quickly overcap herself.

<\th>	Base<\th>	Chip<\th>	Chip+EOT<\th>	Base+RO635<\th>	Chip+RO635<\th>	Chip+EOT+RO635<\th><\tr>
1 Stack<\td>	72 (20)<\td>	98 (15)<\td>	94 (15)<\td>	79 (18)<\td>	108 (13)<\td>	103 (14)<\td><\tr>
2 Stacks<\td>	76 (19)<\td>	103 (14)<\td>	99 (15)<\td>	83 (18)<\td>	113 (13)<\td>	109 (13)<\td><\tr>
3 Stacks<\td>	79 (18)<\td>	108 (13)<\td>	104 (14)<\td>	87 (17)<\td>	119 (12)<\td>	114 (13)<\td><\tr>
4 Stacks<\td>	83 (18)<\td>	114 (13)<\td>	109 (13)<\td>	92 (16)<\td>	125 (12)<\td>	120 (12)<\td><\tr>
5 Stacks<\td>	88 (17)<\td>	119 (12)<\td>	114 (13)<\td>	96 (15)<\td>	131 (12)<\td>	126 (12)<\td><\tr>
6 Stacks<\td>	92 (16)<\td>	125 (12)<\td>	120 (12)<\td>	101 (14)<\td>	138 (12)<\td>	132 (12)<\td><\tr>
7 Stacks<\td>	97 (15)<\td>	132 (12)<\td>	126 (12)<\td>	106 (14)<\td>	145 (12)<\td>	139 (12)<\td><\tr>
8 Stacks<\td>	101 (14)<\td>	138 (12)<\td>	132 (12)<\td>	112 (13)<\td>	152 (12)<\td>	146 (12)<\td><\tr> <\table> Default appearance Base appearance Damaged appearance She Comes From The Rain Base appearance Damaged appearance Soaring to the Clouds Base appearance Damaged appearance Travel log of a Star Base appearance Damaged appearance