The Chosen King, Noctis

Makes him one of the strongest leaders in the game.

that's why you need the three fingers.

Oh! I just got him in JP, and the awokens are the same 9 that are given in NA !? PADX is just glitching again it seems... 0:

I rolled Noctis and played him, and making 6combo of 4+orbs is not that hard...
I think you haven't rolled this guy so you are thinking it's impossible.
But if you have him, you will see how easy to make combo and how powerful he is.

Noctis is kind of like Kinnikuman, and Kinnikuman is still one of the best leads in the game. Unlike Kinnikuman, Noctis is not restricted to Fire combos, which makes a big difference. Having to match 4 orbs is a bit difficult but it is doable, and the ATK multiplier is scaling, which not only means that you don't have to get 6 combos, but it also means that you can control your damage very well.

If nothing else, at least GungHo gave NA better awakenings than JP.

I'm mainly thinking that because of the orb screw this game will sometimes give you. My first pull was a Genbu years ago, and I can't tell you how many times I was screwed by the fact I was missing a single wood or dark orb for my combo. If you happen to have a lousy board, you could be done. Changers like Lightning or Ragnarok Dragon could help that, though.

Cruel bleak night panda goes better with him in my opinion. Are you willing to downgrade?

I spent pys... No way in hell, not until I can consistently beat ultimate arena...

Farm the FFC3 ranking dungeon. Boss will drop his ring to skill him up (albeit unreliably...)

I'd say he's balance rather than OP because of the 6 combos requirement to hit full multiplier.

After playing Noctis for a few weeks with his initial LS... I can tell you that you don't need to hit his full multiplier to wreck stuff

If it works the same way Khepri does, then it is just +1. Most active skill buffs (such as shields, skyfall buffs, or counter-attacks) do not stack, they simply override each other.

For example, if I use an Indra active to get 3 turns of 75% shield, and then I use Awoken Isis active for 15% shield, I don't get a 90% shield, I just get the 15% and the 75% disappears, despite still having 3 turns.

I think he got some awakenings in the US version that he didn't in Japan, meaning we've actually got a card that is stronger here than in JP for the first time.

I'm running him now in a full dark team. I've covered all the bases, bind clears, orb changers, SBR, and a grand total of 14 fingers, for 7 seconds + 4 + 1 from the badge gives me 12 seconds. What's weird is I rarely have to use any orb changes, because you just need 4-8 black orbs and anything else will do, but they are there if you need them:

Noctis
Awoken Tsukyomi
Dark Kali
Cruel Bleak Night Goddess, Pandora
Awoken Haku (going to try D/B Okuninushi for the enhance soon)
Noctis

14 fingers
8 TPA
10 SB
5 Enhance dark
6 SBR
Bind clear on Kali

Tsukyomi makes my move time a whopping 17 seconds for 3 turns, Dkali, haku, and Panda all refresh my obs, and noctis makes sure I have 4 black outside of the other 3, as well as adding that combo. All skills are up on turn 1 as well.

28.2K HP (63.4K with 2.25x)
13K Dark Damage
4K recovery (9K with 2.25x)

I typically match 5-6 combos, going down the columns in order from left to right or right to left. 5 combos is so easy to get, and 6 isn't that hard, but can sometimes be a pain. 5 combos still wipes most things, as without using any actives I hit for around 2M per card with 1 TPA. 6 combos, and 2 TPAs can break 3.5M per card.

realistically you would have four to five combos w/o using skills.

What you do is a mono dark team, with all types present as subtypes.

I did rainbow with

Sheet
Super Ultimate Awoken Visnu
R/B Rozuel
Satsuki

It was pretty good
BUT.....

I tweaked the team and this was/is better overall I think

D/R Halloween Rozuel
D/B Pandora
D/G Persephone
Satsuki

nah you wanna go mono dark tpa and have someone with a bind clear to be safe and his ls is he can only match 4+orbs to make a combo

Then wouldn't it make sense to use rainbow? That way you could also hit with any other 4+ orb combos? IMO mono dark seems like it would limit damage potential a lot, because if I'm interpreting what you said correctly every match you have to make 4+ orbs why not use those matches to get the multiplier?

He's the most rewarding to highly skilled players who can match like their lives depend on it. I used to think he was really impossible to use, but I tried him out with the challenge, and while I'm not nearly good enough to set him off consistently, it wasn't nearly as impossible as I thought. What makes him worth it is the ability to boost any card's attack and coming with a beefy 2.25x in both HP and RCV, granting him great durability that many other combo-based leaders can't claim. Even more interesting, his restriction naturally gears him towards a TPA playstyle, and Gung Ho helpfully gave him two TPA awakenings of his own. Stick him with other TPA-heavy subs and inherit some full board changers to fix bad layouts, and with the right skills, he's among the strongest, most flexible leaders in the entire game.

I use him to farm Myr, he's my most reliable lead. Getting past combo shields are a cinch, his active does work for him.

You multiplied the 3 combo multiplier (3x) for both leads with the the 6 combo multiplier (6x) from both leads with the 1.5x multiplier from one. First of all, the 1.5x is from both leads. Secondly, the 6x overwrites the 3x because it says "up to." It would be completely broken to get one multiplier for 3 combos and then a separate multiplier for 6 combos, which already inherently includes the 3 combos. That would be getting two multipliers for the work of only one. It's actually 6x6x1.5x1.5 which is 81x. Clearly nothing to sneeze at, but not as crazy.

It's just 81x.

And 486x is not that broken considering we have Himura Kenshin and UmiYama/Fernir.

I'd buy if only to use that sick-ass crossbow