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A young man spoken of in stories from the faraway land of Eos. Prince and rightful heir to the throne in the Kingdom of Lucis which possesses the world's only crystal. He is powerful despite being of royal blood, and like his forefathers is able to unleash the "Power of Kings," in which he can summon weapons to attack. Set to marry Lady Lunafreya of the imperial province of Tenebrae in accordance to the cease-fire with the Niflheim Empire, he sets off from the capital city Insomnia with his best friends, where his journey begins.
KEEP IN MIND, THIS STILL COUNTS AS A SPECIAL REVIEW! (for those who remember lol)

1,000 likes special review, we came a far way since then, but won't stop!
Noctis Special Review by Memel0rd

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5*
6*
Equipment Selection:
No innate weaknesses | No innate resistances
Trust Master Reward: Ring of the Lucii (Accessory) - MAG+3, SPR+3, ATK +30%, MAG +30% , Holy and enables use of Alterna, Death

6* Stats at Lvl. 100:
HP: 3824 (+450) Mag: 150 (+30)
MP: 174 (+75) Def: 120 (+30)
Atk: 158 (+30) Spr: 136 (+30)

6* Limit Burst:
Armiger (Base / 30 LB-Crysts): 5-Hit Physical damage (10x) to one enemy
Increase ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR (100%) for 2 turns to all allies
Mitigate damage taken (30%) for 2 turns to caster
Enables access to following ability for 1 turn: Point-Blank Warp-Strike

Armiger (Max / 30 LB-Crysts): Physical damage (14.8x) to one enemy
Increase ATK/DEF/MAG/SPR (124%) for 2 turns to all allies
Mitigate damage taken (30%) for 2 turns to caster
Enables access to following ability for 1 turn: Point-Blank Warp-Strike

5*: Lvl 1 Blindside (30 MP / 1-Hit) - Physical damage (3x) to one enemy
5*: Lvl 12 Fish (14 MP) - Increase chance of being targeted (100%) for 1 turn to caster

5*: Lvl 30 Cover (32 MP) - Refresh (10 MP, 0.2x) split over 3 turns to all allies
Heal (1000 HP, 10x) split over 3 turns to all allies

5*: Lvl 55 Link (48 MP / 1-Hit) - Physical damage (1x) to one enemy
Increase ATK/MAG (45%) for 3 turns to all allies

5*: Lvl 80 Point-Warp (50 MP / 1-Hit) - Recover MP (150) to caster
Recover HP (3000) to caster
Enables access to following ability for 2 turns: Point-Blank Warp-Strike
Physical damage (5x) with jump delay (1 turn) to one enemy

6*: Lvl 30 Thunder Flask (54 MP / 1-Hit) - Lightning hybrid damage (4x) to all enemies
Decrease MAG/SPR (45%) for 3 turns to all enemies

6*: Lvl 30 Blizzard Flask (54 MP / 1-Hit) - Ice hybrid damage (4x) to all enemies
Inflict stop (30%) for 3 turns to all enemies

6*: Lvl 30 Fire Flask (54 MP / 1-Hit) - Fire hybrid damage (4x) to all enemies
Inflict 2 random status ailments (30%) to all enemies

6*: Lvl 52 Warp Decoy (16 MP) - Negate 3 physical damage taken for 3 turns to caster
Enables access to following ability for 1 turn: Point-Blank Warp-Strike

6*: Lvl 70 Comeback (14 MP) - Revive one KO'd ally (100% HP)

6*: Lvl 100 Warp Srite (52 MP / D-Hit) - Physical damage (2.5x) with ignore DEF (50%) to one enemy
Decrease ATK/DEF (45%) for 3 turns to one enemy
Enables access to following ability for 1 turn: Point-Blank Warp-Strike

Point-Blank Warp-Strike (58 MP / D-Hit) - Physical damage (5.25x) with ignore DEF (50%) to one enemy
Decrease ATK/DEF (45%) for 3 turns to one enemy

5*: Lvl 1 Power of Kings - Short Swords - Increase ATK/DEF (30%) when equipped with a dagger
5*: Lvl 20 Power of Kings - Swords - Increase ATK (40%) and SPR (20%) when equipped with a sword

5*: Lvl 42 Power of Kings - Large Swords - Increase ATK (40%) and DEF (20%) when equipped with a great sword

5*: Lvl 58 Power of Kings - Shields - Increase DEF/SPR (30%) when equipped with a light shield
Increase DEF/SPR (30%) when equipped with a heavy shield

5*: Lvl 74 Power of Kings - Throwing Weapons - Increase MAG/SPR (30%) when equipped with a throwing weapon

5*: Lvl 80 Auto-Refresh - Recover MP (5%) per turn

6*: Lvl 1 Parry - Chance to evade physical damage taken (20%)
Chance to evade magic damage taken (10%)
Chance to counter physical attacks (30%)

6*: Lvl 4 Power of Kings - Guns - Increase DEF/MAG (30%) when equipped with a gun

6*: Lvl 15 Power of Kings - Katanas - Increase ATK/MAG (30%) when equipped with a katana

6*: Lvl 40 Damage Warp - Chance to counter physical attacks (30%) with Heal (400 HP, 3x) to caster

6*: Lvl 60 Power of Kings - Spears - Increase ATK/SPR (30%) when equipped with a spear
6*: Lvl 92 Chosen Kings - Increase HP/MP (30%)

Pros:
This will be long!

Noctis has absolutely amazing basestats . He has very high HP, high MP, high ATK, decent DEF, high MAG and good SPR! This is a rare sight and really makes him a much better unit. Noctis already shows high versatility in stats, but what about passives? Well, he has 5% MP refresh each turn, but also....

Noctis has a lot of weapon passives . And when I say a lot, I MEAN A LOT. I suggest you looking them up in the spoiler tag, because they are too many to list here. But for ideal ATK builds , you want swords + great swords which give you a total of 80% ATK, 20% DEF and 20% SPR. But he also has innate 30% HP/MP, which means he has overall amazing stats. You can make him even bulkier with shields (30% DEF/SPR) or a Dagger or Lance to gain 30% DEF or SPR, but lose 10% atk. Just great.

Though there is something which complements his versatility in builds. Because Noctis has innate 20% phys evasion and 10% m-evasion, great to use for evasion builds. Does he stop here? No. He has a 30% chance to counter physical attacks with either normal attacks or a 30% chance to heal himself for an average 800-900 HP. So he can sustain himself really well.

Before we are going on, I have to get this out of the way. Ever take a glance at Noctis' Limit Burst? No? You sure?
Well, you are missing out on something. Noctis' Limit Burst is probably one if not the most effective Limit Bursts out there. Why you ask?
On max level, Noctis has a 5-Hit, that fit into any chain, 1480% modifier, which is already huge. But it also grants an AoE 2 Turn 124% All stat buff! This is even higher than Soleil's dances, quite impressive. He will receive a 30% mitigation as well for two turns, afterwards the Limit Burst activates Point-Blank Warp Strike, which I will talk about later. I can tell you though, once you get his LB, it IS very powerful.

Now, versatility will become the main theme.

Noctis is able to break for pretty high amounts ! With his Thunder Flask, he can apply an AoE 45% MAG/SPR break for three turns, mages can highly benefit from this. While he also can apply a ST 45% ATK/DEF break with his Warp Strike.
Warp Strike however is a 500% physical move, but Warp Strike, just like his Limit Burst, enables Point-Blank Warp-Strike.

Point-Blank Warp-Strike not only has a too long name , but it also has a 1050% modifier ! THIS is one hell of a move, it deals massive damage especially if you can apply the 45% ATK/DEF break, you will gain another 81% damage! This is by far his best attacking move and I highly recommend you using this if you want Noctis to deal damage.

Being able to keep your MP at a high level is something you are looking for in the current meta. While Noctis is not the best MP battery, he can manage to regen a decent amount of MP to your team , combined with Tilith or Ayaka you should not have too many problems dealing with MP. Only a smaller pro though.

Noctis is able to fully revive an ally with Comeback, blessing and curse that it's an ability however. Good for no magic missions, bad if you... want to run DC Noctis ?

Noctis does indeed use up a lot of MP and his 30% MP + 5% MP refresh won't be enough. Cover can help but won't do the trick as well. Point-Warp does!
Point-Warp is a pretty strong jump with a 1 turn delay and a 500% modifier, that's not the real use of it. You are using this because it will recover a total of 100 MP (50 MP cost and 150 MP recover) AND 3000 HP. With this, Noctis is able to be self-sustainable pretty darn easily.

I told you earlier that Noctis has 20% phys evasion, but he also has a 1-Turn 100% provoke . This can be great if you are running a full evasion Noctis and are making him your cheap provoke tank or just a one time nuke fodder (e.g. Aigaion). This especially stands out because of its low MP cost of 14.

Cons:
Noctis has cons. A lot of cons which are there to balance them, without these he would be just plain broken in many ways. Let's get started.

This might not seem like a huge deal at first sight. He is not able to gain any % ATK without any weapons. Noctis does not have basic ATK % passives , thus if you want to go with a throwing weapon, you will have a total of 0% ATK passives innately.
And there is another issue which affects Doublehand builds for him. He needs to equip two weapons to fully gain all the passives , but Doublehand will be a lot better than DW, especially because of his next con.

Look at the Warp Strike abilities. Notice something? It's the D-Hit animation, THIS MEANS Warp Strike and Point-Blank Warp Strike are going to use his regular attack animation . And this one is so slow. It doesn't fit in almost all chains and if it does in one, it's barely getting into it. Many chainers will not allow Noctis to fully finish with Dual Wield, so Doublehand would be overall a better option (or fixed dice), but he gets less to no ATK passives from these builds, so this con gets even worse with a previous one.

Even if Noctis ' Limit Burst is plain stupid regarding its effects, it's very hard to gain. Noctis requires 30 LB Crysts for it and doesn't have any innate hightide passives or auto-LB passives . I highly highly suggest you to use Rikku's Pouch and Auto-LB gear on Noctis if you want him to be your main buffer, because the LB Buffs only last 2 turns.... So you have to collect 30 LB Crysts in two turns, it is doable but very hard.

His Cover only regens like 10-16 MP per turn, if you don't have anything else, this will not be enough to sustain your team properly.

Back Then:
Oh boy, let's take a trip back.

Noctis was the go-to unit. Everybody used him.
Back on his release , he was probably the strongest unit in total. Noctis had a huge advantage over most units.

First things first, Noctis ' stats were above everybody's else. He had massive base stats with huge passives , which really got him up there. His high passives made him quite an eyesight.

Noctis' Limit Burst was a high damage dealing LB and also granted an AoE 74% all stat buff , which was broken back then . Even buffs like Cheer and Focus were top tier meta and this Limit Burst was a massive step up from these buffs.

Being able to debuff and dish out very high DPS with huge stats, yes, he could do that. Noctis was a great breaker with Thunder Flask and Warp Strike, which both were at 30%. Fullbreak was meta as well for the most part and he basically had it in a slightly nerfed version.

Cover was one of the very rare MP regen moves , you often had to rely on items or Ling . And Cover helped out A LOT. Noctis was probably one of the best MP batteries back then, since there was basically no competition outside of Ling , who was a limited unit.

People also used him as a provoke tank because of his sheer stats and supportive aspects. Either with Golem's 70% provoke or his 1 turn 100% provoke and physical evasion, Noctis really was able to shine a lot.

All these aspects made Noctis by far the best unit back in the day. Did he remain at this spot? Not at all.

How did he fare?
Noctis was top tier meta for a long time.

But at some point, we got stronger breaks . Far stronger breaks.
We got way better tanks and more effective ones, such as Wilhelm and Snow .
We got way better DPS units and the chain meta began with Orlandeau .

Many people used Orlandeau over him. Higher ATK/MAG break and was able to chain. Orlandeau basically was one of the first units who really made Noctis a way worse unit in the meta, chaining became very strong very fast and will most likely never fall out of the meta because of its sheer power.

We also got better buffers with e.Soleil and Zargabaath .

Before his buffs there was basically absolutely no reason to ever use Noctis. He was outdated in every aspect and his versatility did not make up for it.

Current Meta:
I already talked about his post-buff abilities and how good they are, but what do they do for him in the current meta?

Noctis became a very unique unit once again, but not as broken on his GL release.
His massive versatility does very good for him. Huge stats, good breaks, good DPS, great evasion potential, huge buffs from the LB. All of this makes him great on paper.

Now, here comes the competition to make it sound a lot worse, most likely at least.

Veritas of the Dark
We have units that share some of these aspects and can do it a lot better. As example, we do have Veritas of the Dark as a very strong chainer with decent buffs and an AoE 45% Fullbreak.

Nyx
Or another DPS unit, who can imperil, imbue and deal out massive finisher damage while having the same breaks with decent damage as well. Nyx would be a lot better as plain finisher than Noctis , since, unlike Noctis , can finish very easily.

9S
Or for example we have a high versatility support with 9S . He has evasion as well, 50% ATK/DEF or MAG/SPR breaks, 50% imperils to 6 different elements and an AoE 30% damage reduction. So 9S can do a similar job as well but is a far better debuffer.

Zargabaath
Zargabaath , even if different, still has a similar place in teams. He is a buffer, counter DPS, eventually a tank and MP battery for the most part. However Zargabaath fits in way more team comps because of the current lack of bards and such.

So what can Noctis do to avoid being outclassed by these as a unit slot?
Noctis in my eyes has two real builds you can make him a very good unit with.

The first build would be an evasion build . Because of Ring of the Lucii being stackable, Noctis is able to reach high attack with 100% evasion, either with DW or Fixed Dice. This makes him a great tank with still high overall stats and ofc 100% evasion to soak up all the hits, especially good with Illusionist Nichol .

Or you make Noctis your dedicated buffer . You need a lot of Auto-LB gear to pull this off. And a Rikku TMR is highly recommended as well, you need to get his LB very fast so prepare for that. Ideally you would use him alongside Tidus because of the huge Entrust spam, but his Damage can still be pretty high with this, as he breaks ATK/DEF for 45% and uses Point-Blank Warp-Strike -> Limit Burst each rotation. But this is just really good as he has an AoE 124% All stat buff!

Side-Notes:
We have Noctis enhancements in JP and they make him great.
He can now be a very strong 100% evasion provoke tank or a huge buffer. His LB is way more spammable now as Link grants 10 LB crysts per use, so with DW easily 20 LB Crysts right off the bet. With some auto LB gear, Noctis will easily become your AoE 124% all stat buffer while dealing massive damage with a TDH build.
Sadly the 7* meta made him pretty lackluster again , but we will see his 7* soon!

Arena:
Noctis ... one the best Arena unit in the game , even with the release of Ayaka he is still super good. Blizzard Flask and Fire Flask make him the beast of Arena, while having innate evasion + healing counters. Blizzard Flask is an AoE Stop and Fire Flask an AoE status ailment infliction. Use him here asap, he's great.

Trust Master Reward:
Ring of the Lucii, 100% get it. It's basically one of the best TMRs ever. 25% Evasion, 30% ATK/MAG, a very powerful magic spell with Alterna. And you know what?
IT STACKS. Ring of the Lucii is an accessory that stacks, so with two of these bad boys you can get 50% Evasion and 60% ATK/MAG. This is such an overloaded TMR, GET IT ASAP.

Conclusion:
Noctis is unique. He is not the best in any of what he does but he has a lot of versatility. High breaks, high mods, huge stats, great build paths.
But he has his cons that make him a lot worse.
Regarding his DPS, his frames hold him back a lot. And not being able to gain ATK % passives on certain weapons drops his potential. While his bad frames make DW builds less effective as you can't fully chain cap his Warp Strike moves.
His Limit Burst as a buffer and DPS is a broken combination , but has its cost. 30 LB Cryst that you have to get in the time span of 2 turns, this is a task not many can fulfill.
And Noctis also has a big competition, with some of the units being the ones I talked earlier about.
However, Noctis fits into many team comps easily, especially in 10 man trial ones, and if you can make him work out, he will be really good. Personally, I really like the buffs and am looking forward to his enhancements!
I highly recommend using him and trying him out , he surely is worth a glance. Depending on your gear and team he might be benched however.

Character Design: 9.5/10
Sprite: 9.5/10
Finisher: 7.5/10 (can't fully chain cap unless DH)
Support: 8/10
Tank: 9/10
Trust Master Reward: 9.5/10
Arena: 10/10
Limit Burst: 9.5/10
Free 2 Play: 8/10
Pay 2 Play: 9/10
Personal Rating: 9/10
Optimal Rating: 9/10

Thank you for everything and your huge support over the time! You were all great and kind to me so far and I hope that it continues! Sorry that this, the first special review, has took such a long time before releasing, but I wanted to make sure to wait for his buffs.

Memel0rd out

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The current title says "Noctis Final Fantasy Brave Exvius", when he is from FFXV.
Maybe you forgot to change that from a template?
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I got Gladiolus. Reading this makes me deader inside.
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Just one slight comment. I think it might be worth it to talk about holy, and the mp regen counter (even if just 15mp it can proc quite a lot and help sustain mp consumption especially with let's say a Nichol) in the TMR part.
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Shit happens, I have Noctis gladly. Tried a bit for Gladio due to his TMR and such, sadly didn't get it. Good luck, hope you get him
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The biggest advantage in a 10 man he kinda can replace any unit to a degree. healing,revives,breaks, finisher. Kinda does alot with moderate success.
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Where's the numeric ranking?
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I think it's because special review and not classic review....?
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Lol here I am criticizing your long awaited special review with everyone else. Great job in all seriousness Meme. I'm probably just salty cuz I spent 20k lapis on summons and 25 tickets today and didn't get him or any rainbows whatsoever. 3x summon rates my ass.
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Insightful review as always.
Well, Noctis is good, actually. I benched VoD for the event and used his materias on Noctis (who was benched prior to the upgrade).
He is probably one of the best units for 5 men missions.

But the creme is, indeed, his TMR. What gorgeous accessory. I need to farm my second Noctis now, way too good to ignore.
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It's fine, I didn't get anything good either. And alt got a useless ramza dupe from daily, so welp. I can feel you, somehow at least
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Ever since I started playing I've wanted Noctis, still do, just because of how much i love ffxv and enjoyed it. Pulled 2 Merc Ramza's and Loren trying to get him...
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I'm glad he was my first rainbow