Doll Info :: Makarov
Makarov
HG
#8
Type: HG
Rarity: 3 *
Obtainable from:
- • Obtainable from standard production
- • Obtainable as a drop from normal battles
Affects All
- Increases damage by 10%
- Increases rate of fire by 6%
- (values at 5x dummy links)
| Stat | Value (per dummy link) |
|---|---|
| HP | 63 (x1) 126 (x2) 189 (x3) 252 (x4) 315 (x5) |
| RECOV | 17 (x1) 34 (x2) 51 (x3) 68 (x4) 85 (x5) |
| DMG | 26 |
| ROF | 61 Max cap 120 |
| ACC | 61 |
| EVA | 96 |
| CRIT % | % |
Equipment
Pending implementation
Precision Suppression
ICD: 6 S.
CD: 12 S.
Decrease all enemies' accuracy by 36% for 6 seconds.
Doll review
Overview
Makarov is an Accuracy debuffing HG, reducing enemies’ Accuracy with her Skill.
A HG’s effectiveness is based on their Skill effect combined with their tilebuffs. Killing enemies faster is almost always the best way to reduce damage taken, and reducing Accuracy is not an effective way of reducing enemy damage when plenty of later enemies have Surehit or simply too much Accuracy for this to function. Even though Makarov’s tiles are good, she is not recommended to use before Modding.
Mod review
Overview
Makarov’s neural upgrade makes for some fun interactions. Her skill 1’s ICD is lowered to 4 seconds, and it now also gives ~40 HP Shield to every unit along with her usual accuracy debuff. This lowered ICD lets Makarov Mod circumvent one big problem with some defensive units, taking too long to work.
Her skill 2 gives the lowest accuracy/evasion units half the difference to her accuracy/evasion stat respectively. This lets her shield and give evasion to an ally with normally low or no evasion, like SGs and Taunt Fairy. Setup correctly, Makarov Mod can get their evasion to the hundreds.
A SG or Taunt Fairy with over a hundred evasion, armor plates, and HP shield. Yeah.
A similar thing can be done with accuracy and units like MGs/RFs at night. Combined with her improved offensive tilebuffs, Makarov Mod can really benefit teams that need her. Her skill 1 doesn’t really help with this however, and she can only target one DPS to improve accuracy on. To enable her to buff Accuracy at night, she must be using a PEQ.
It helps that she is a 3* to begin with, and so pretty cheap. Taking her to at least Mod 2 is a good investment.
Pros
Additive Accuracy/Evasion Buff
Can significantly help SGs/taunt fairies/night-debuffed units despite their low evasion/accuracy. Also additive means the buff applies after debuffs.
Team-wide HP Shield
A 40-point HP Shield is potentially useful for tanking certain attacks, even ones that hit every T-Doll.
Low Initial Cooldown
4 seconds is fast. Great for making sure no one dies early.
Cons
Still No Consistent Offensive Skill
Outside of night-battle shenanigans, Makarov Mod doesn’t offer much in terms of damage output from her skill. So just slapping her into every team wouldn’t work great.
Less Benefit for Already Evasive/Accurate Units
On teams composed of units that already have a usable accuracy stat or have evasion-tanking units already, Makarov Mod doesn’t make as much of an impact, and is relegated to niche low icd shielding, which Shield Fairy might be able to do better.
Full analysis
Skill 2 formula example: Makarov Mod’s EVA: 150. Other unit’s EVA: 10. Added EVA: 0.5 * (150 - 10) = 70. Other unit’s final EVA: 10 + 70 = 80.
- Only works if Makarov Mod’s evasion is the higher one.
- If there are two units tied for the lowest evasion/accuracy, the buff recipient seems to be randomly picked.
- The stats are additive, so Makarov with a PEQ can provide RFs and MGs a workable accuracy at night, enemies like gunners and Visjnoe cannot debuff the added stats since they’re calculated after debuffs.
- Works on summoned units like the taunt fairy.
- Cannot apply to Makarov herself (she’s not on her own tiles).
It also synergizes well with the accuracy debuff and HP shields of her skill 1 to give huge buffs to her target’s effective HP.
Easy applications to point out are to make a double-immortal SG, Hanyang Exodia at night, and letting a taunt fairy delay a deathstack far longer than reasonable. Easily bad ideas are using her on a regular RFHG at daytime or ARSMG whenever, where nobody wants what she’s offering.
Unlike her black market SPEQ, her mod SPEQ is not particularly useful. It’s a combination of flare ammo and HP ammo. Unless someone is starved for flare ammo for some reason, Mod 3 isn’t worth it. Mod 2 is though.