Van Gogh: The God-Tier Soloist - FGO Servant Guide

Despite making a small splash on her initial release, Van Gogh turned out to be a pretty spectacular catch.
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0:00 How to Use Van Gogh
2:52 Soloist
5:01 Double Gogh System
6:39 Weaknesses
7:15 Minmaxing
9:17 Recommended NP Level
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[@Finotaisen]

I made a pretty serious error in the Habetrot section. Her cleanse is a repeating effect, so YOU MUST ABSOLUTELY NOT PUT IT ON VAN GOGH. But you also can't put it on Habetrot herself or she'll survive its effect. Just dump it on your third member, especially if they don't meet its requirements or have a multiturn taunt. Obviously, this only works in single Gogh setups. For Double Gogh, don't use Habetrot.

[@adrastos8401]

Cleanse is not a repeating effect. You were right the first time.

[@jz0248]

For those watching the fight in the video, keep in mind that Van gogh has child trait, so the enemy in this CQ actually has damage resistance against them

[@WolfBetter]

Van gogh is my waifu. She makes every story content look like a joke. I summoned her last year when I begun the game, best choiche I ever made

[@Byssbod]

​@@WolfBetterI couldn't figure out how to use her on the BIG FLUFF fight unfortunately And now I'll never get another shot lol

[@Khixote]

@@WolfBetter I agree she's good but that first sentence was the lamest shit I've ever heard 😭

[@duatplaysoriginalii1315]

What's a CQ?

[@jz0248]

@@duatplaysoriginalii1315 Challenge Quest. Hard fights that the game labels "high difficulty"

[@dfih1592]

A quick warning to my fellow Gogh enthusiasts: the maximum crit buff is 500%, and it is very easy to hit it.

[@kameoosama]

Van Gogh and Himiko are very quickly becoming my favorite servants. Just love to see crits that do more damage than a lot of NPs

[@dhyan73]

I just summoned her and oh boy, crit damage stacking is one hell of a drug

[@HARLANDfigueroaZ]

She actually has great synergy with Summer BB, since she can lock face cards and has ridiculous star absorption, with double Gogh her crits can hit really hard

[@biggusdickus9652]

bb summer is also from the void, so 150% crit for her also

[@HARLANDfigueroaZ]

@@biggusdickus9652 Gogh and Douman can skyrocket BBs crits to the moon

[@MadRaptorGaming]

You made a small strategy mistake with Van Gogh. With 2 Van Goghs, you want to use both of their 2nd skills, before using 1 of their 3rd skills, and then follow up with that Gogh's 1st skill, and then repeating. That allows you to REALLY take advantage of that 10 per curse charge.

[@Jasons_Argo]

This works best when the 1st used Van Gogh has their 2nd append skill unlocked, then both of them can NP turn 1 if needed. If either has a starting charge CE of 40% or more then you can save one of their skill 2’s for another wave.

[@AngelofKaos]

Agree, it's a matter of passing the metaphorical ball of curse stacks between themselves, absorb on one, charge NP, have the other ghogie absorb all of the first's curse stacks, charge, etc

[@MadRaptorGaming]

@@Jasons_Argo Exactly.

[@tomeetipee]

Gogh is absolutely insane for any difficult content. I find, more often than not, I can go into most challenge quests blind with double Gogh and Summer BB and its going to be EZ clap. Also one of the most fun servants to use in general.

[@TheYellowAnt]

Thinking van Gogh is mediocre at first and realizing later that she's amazing is appropriate.

[@ShiraFuyu2022]

When you got stuck with a Support Kit but ended up better as your own DPS

[@lordtea]

Fine I do it myself be like

[@blurb9319]

I would say she’s a dps who can support on the side. Her ramping attack buff shows that she was meant to at least be a sub dps

[@Tyrant034]

I'm surprised that you didn't mention her synergy with Douman, and another reason to Np2 her are the servant coins for the 2 append(extra and Np), unless you are willing to wait til bond 14.

[@Coonerbai]

Yeah, Gogh-man team is my go to for challenge quests personally

[@VioletDeathRei]

Much like everyone treats Van Gogh as a pure support they treat Douman as a pure offense. He brings so many useful effects but I'm sure in much the same way people hate having to think about skill order for Van Gogh they also hate adding Douman to the order because his 1,000 damage curses can hurt if you suck up the wrong ones.

[@ivanbluecool]

Ah yes van Gogh. The last event I played before my phone ran out of space. I loved this story and event so much near seraph level of enjoyment Very great solo unit and with the new ce and cc you can get a ton of Curse damage and paint the room red

[@muchluck7981]

Yes Van gogh is such an underrated servant to most people but to the gogh enjoyers like me who got her NP to NP5, she really does go vroom. Also imaginary scramble was fire

[@dramaturgy845]

​@@muchluck7981ey I'll join the np 5 later Just got np3 van Gogh in one multi from anniversary

[@yohann3825]

She keeps dodging me I’m tired and my savings are depleted😭

[@mrsheldon9134]

Other than Double Gogh, I’ve found Taira, Gogh, and Douman to be an amazing team. All 3 servants have Guts and 2 have Evades, with one of those being a party-wide Evade. And Douman’s Guts is 2 times while Taira’s only has a cooldown of 2 turns. Finally Gogh reduces damage taken by stunning the enemy. All together, it’s nearly impossible for them to die. Douman provides AOE damage, Taira provides single target anti-defensive buff damage, and Gogh provides sheer overwhelming crit damage. All 3 are Chaotic Evil as well so Douman buffs their damage and crit damage to high heavens.

[@kugetsu]

I started when Van Gogh was first released. Was going for Nemo because I love the design (even though he's not great) but ended up getting two Van Goghs. She has carried me through everything I have done story-wise so far minus a few battles where there were better options for me. She's my first and only 10-Bond servant and easily my favorite. Haven't taken her out of my lineup yet and am slowly making my way through LB-5

[@dante53a]

I also did the whole story with double gogh and she is also my only bond 10 as of now.

[@bossito9611]

Van Gogh used as a support for Koyanskaya of Dark is probably the most fun combination of servants (in my opinion)

[@ataxis8951]

The daily single came in clutch, let’s gooo. Honestly, while she is definitely a good solo servant (which I desperately needed since my best solo servant before her was a 6/6/6 cu 💀), I mainly pulled her because of how fun her gameplay looked while running double Van Gogh.

[@AngelofKaos]

One thing I have to add as a proud Ghogie user, is that in lack of a Skadi (my bad luck), the surprisingly serviceable replacement is none other than DOUMAN. As both chaotic evil, the crit and atk buffs work for both of them, and they can crit back to back with no issue, douman generating an insane amount of stars too, while also having two back to back guts as a failsafe for himself, plus curse application on his NP. Running double ghogie with Douman is amazing stuff, I highly reccomend it.

[@VioletDeathRei]

He also has curse on two of his skills he's a curse machine.

[@caligulasloveboat5232]

I would say Douman is outright superior to Skadi with Gogh. Like everything, she defies even the very meta system.

[@dammit3048]

Words cannot describe how much I love van gogh. Lvl 100 with hope of going higher

[@kingZ3ro]

One cool thing about the way her “Attack up on curse removal” skill works is that it doesn't strictly have to be Quick cards Sure quick cards do it for free, but if you put a curse removal CC on any of her other cards it still has the same effect.

[@lth_lch]

I actually really liked using her in a standard arts team with Tamamo and Castoria for the LB1 super recollection quests. Tamamo for the heals (rarely needed, but nice insurance whenever someone happened to take a hit), charge and skill cooldown on the NP, Castoria for all the things Castoria's used for, and Gogh providing stars, atk, and crit up also helped to keep the engine going. Not the most damage when compared to double Gogh + Douman/Skadi which I couldn't use anyway because no duplicate servants allowed, but more than serviceable enough to deal with multi-million HP Asterios and Anastasia bosses in a relatively timely manner. Also, I'm not sure if it actually is, but it felt almost like an immortal comp with how the team always had either evade, invul, or the boss was stunned by a terror proc. Gogh is so cool, man. One of the few servants in the game that makes me want to use my brain and mess around with team comps.

[@the_wake_]

Very good breakdown! A couple more things to add: 1) Van Gogh is a lynchpin for "elite comps", i.e. those that use crits to take down difficult farming nodes usually with some combination of Gogh, Summer BB, Himiko, Douman, etc. With wacky 90+ and 90++ nodes, that's sometimes more workable than NP spam, even with Oberon in the mix. The good thing about those is they often work best without duplicate servants, so you can run it if you have any 2 of the 3 (or 3 of the 4 if you plug). 2) While a second copy isn't a must have, NP2 makes it a lot easier to get both her very useful append 1 and append 2. Which is a nice extra bonus, especially if you want to use her both for farming and soloing.

[@torappuda]

Reminder: NP2 and above is very low efficiency and not worth it. NP1 makes your crits deal 150% more damage (total of 250%) , NP2 makes your crits deal 175% more damage (total 275%). So the damage difference is only 10%. She's also a soloist that's not meant for min turns, so there's no merit in trying to shave off 2 turns in a 20 turn solo.

[@pomking2]

Pros: LVL120 Gogh with max appends

[@dfih1592]

As a counterpoint: she's cute

[@RadTicTacs]

Unless the damage formula changed recently, that’s not true. The critDamageMod value is multiplicative with the x2 criticalModifier value

[@torappuda]

You're right, I changed my comment.

[@wat146]

Double Gogh and Doumon is filthy.

[@SavageDroppinDaBeats]

You can’t pull the canvas over my eyes I heard all those puns in the video

[@muchluck7981]

You have forgotten the most powerful support that Van Gogh can have. No it's not Skadi or Habetrot but in fact, Ashiya Douman. Douman himself gives crit buffs to the van goghs and they are guaranteed to be 100% because they are for chaotic evil servants. He can inflict confusion and terror with his enemy debuff that also gives them curse and he has an 80% charge that also grants him a 2 proc guts. His NP is a damage NP and can be used as chip/brave damage for your goghs. As for CE selection, while the CE's you recommend are nice, 2030 is the CE to go for with her. getting 10 crit stars every turn after the first turn is very strong and combo'd with her NP is 20 crit stars every turn. this is great on a van gogh that is supporting another van gogh since any crit damage buffs would be wasted after a certain point due to hitting the max crit buff limit.

[@momijiinubashiri2676]

The perfect guide to celebrate my new np5 Goghie

[@Nearnface]

wowowowow

[@MrTibruk64]

I love running her so much, probably the best foreigner. I've run her in some funky comps just to crit beat down some nasty challenge quests

[@irete267]

I use her for everything. She can support, her solo capabilities are better than Orion's, depending on the fight. I even use her to crit farm with Summer BB and another Gogh

[@Ghaleonh41]

I love running her on both NA & JP! I have her at NP3 on NA. One thing I can suggest for her is that you can use her as a Quick Support. For CEs, I recommend Magical Girl of Sapphire (as a Support) or True Crimson Spear Trainer (as a DPS). Note that you only need the Curse Stacks to get her started.

[@EmporerEmblem]

Van Gogh was my first SSR on JP (made the account when Summer Kiara first dropped) and she carried my underdeveloped account from Solomon all the way to LB5 with just Helena and Hans as supports while barely slowing down. Just an absolutely great crit DPS and crit support. I've raised her to 100 on both NA and JP, 2k fou'd on JP, and am aiming to do so on NA once the big class score system master mission dump happens.

[@Khixote]

my van goat

[@baritonetenor]

I finally managed to snatch her as a Dutch player it feels nice to have my countries SSR. It sucks that our only other main cultural export besides van Gogh is Rembrant who is also a painter. Makes the chance of them getting made into a servant very close to 0. So sad we only get to have van Gogh and Mata Hari

[@The_Real_Paradox]

As a dutch person that pronunciation (where you tried) was pretty funny. I do understand the dutch 'g' is hard tho 😂. I do also like the twist on van gogh especially the attack where the sunflower becomes a circular saw xD

[@KOGtxt]

a-gogh-ny

[@07m07]

I was lucky enough to get Van Gogh on my KR account a few months ago, and I've been blown away by how great she's been for challenge quests. Against Berserkers, it doesn't get much better than her. Glad to see her getting the recognition she deserves.

[@PsycheTrance65]

I only found this out during the recent NeroFest. I pulled for her last year because I liked her as a character. I didn't know I was sleeping on a very solid solo unit and just had her benched for months 😂

[@justalex4214]

Even tho I'm saving for melu's rerun, I threw some of my savings at gogh's banner to get her to np3, now I can finally get her to lvl 120. She's my no.1 ST servant and destroys most bosses easily, also it's fun dishing out massive dmg with facecards instead of the usual dmg np buff stacking.

[@EditorSky]

Van Gogh become one one my fav servants in the game she's insane, I didn't have a support unit so she is perfect for my BB.

[@reidmoore8754]

So I summoned her cause I was curious and I was a big fan of Gogh's Real life art style and she came super early for me. But since then she is one of my silver bullets I keep in the back pocket incase of an emergency. There are just some fights here and there (Like certain fights in LB6) that she just makes an absolute joke. Not only is she a strong servant, her character is just wonderful for the right amount of crazy but still so so adorable you just wanna hug her.

[@MugenZeroX]

Just here for a Gogh time

[@EndymionMkII]

Hey that's my Van Gogh! ... now I'll know how to use her!

[@Awtsuu]

Perfect upload timing I just got her yesterday and have no clue how to use her Only cost me 3tix btw uwu

[@devnotes00]

I didn't get her during the event, glad i got lucky and got her after two tickets yesterday 😮

[@jedahaw]

I like to use Trick or Treatment on her. NP gain, Crit Strength + it's attack focused.

[@Yami-no-Raiden]

Got her to NP2 in only 90 Quartz. One of my biggest Ws in FGO.

[@QPDangerous]

Goghie ❤

[@kamenraider1175]

There's a reason Gogh is my only servant leveled past 100 Also just finished fou pawing all her cards

[@gamerwim9095]

I’ve been using her since her first rate up. Off the crit damage alone I knew she’d be insane when I first saw her. Hitting 500k per turn off her quick cards alone. Neutral btw. She’s absolutely insane and was my most hyped servant of last year

[@SmartyPantsDash]

Got a triple Van Gogh in my multi, so I'm happy

[@aero6104]

As somebody planning to 120 her, shes definitely one of the best servants period

[@Lofiyanami]

I love Van Gogh

[@GeneralJerrard101]

My Van Gogh comp is her, skadi, and summer bunnygirl artoria. Artoria rolls the hand into one with 3 van gogh cards, as many quick as possible, and then skadi dumps her buffs and gets swapped for summer bb to lock the hand and let my van GOGH off.

[@lozer7011]

So maybe we should just do double Van Goghlos? A little Van Goghk.

[@am_cosmos]

After Douman got VERY expensive I was very surprised early yesterday morning when Van Gogh popped out of my discount daily soloyolo. Glad to hear she's a potent addition! And nice to have a new Foreigner, my only one was Hokusai I got on her original run years ago.

[@DINGOlord]

Douman works very well with Gogh, btw

[@Kenn_N]

​@@DINGOlordbcs of the curse?

[@am_cosmos]

@@DINGOlord Ohhh thank you for the heads up! That’s great to hear. I had recalled that their Curse mechanics synergize but I’m still leveling mine up so I have yet to experiment.

[@mardshima2070]

@@Kenn_N and Chaotic Evil

[@DINGOlord]

@@am_cosmos Their curse actually don't work that well together unless you REALLY need the extra charge, cuz Douman's curses are very strong, but Douman pumps up Chaotic Evil, Quick & crit characters, which Gogh ticks all 3

[@timmyvdb3]

I applaud you for trying to say Van Gogh right.

[@forte609]

Decided to yolo a ten roll on this banner and I got her

[@lordtea]

Van gogh (support) + hans + miyu carried me hard tbh 😌

[@LanguidWyvern]

Van Gogh's stun lock made E-Olga's fight the easiest of the 10 waves. I think Olga got to attack 4 or 5 times during the entire fight. Actual Grand Foreigner,.Also don't forget her synergy with Douman, even more stun and crits because she's both evil and chaotic.

[@blurb9319]

Just make sure to play around Douman's massive curses that can chip down Van Gogh very quickly if you're not careful.

[@LanguidWyvern]

@@blurb9319 They'll never kill her so planning around her evade and guts help mitigate external damage she'd be taking, then once her buffs wear off you can use Atlas to lower her cooldowns, give her invul or just erase the excess curses once her quick curse buff runs out in three turns and do it all over again.

[@blurb9319]

@@LanguidWyvern Yeah, but losing several thousand hp every turn is a lot which why you have to play around those curses by timing your skills properly.

[@LanguidWyvern]

@@blurb9319 That's why I mentioned Atlas, every one of the skills it has helps Gogh survive. You could also just stun lock with Douman's ridicule cat and Gogh NP spam. The only things to fear are debuff immunity and invul pierce

[@EeveeEsp]

I would love to have her but I need ZenobiASS, also her rate-up doesn't have 4 stars so. Sorry Goghy, I hope you have a better banner later.

[@fgox6547]

That's why lady's and gentlemen I am a Van Gogh main on both fgo games I LOVE HER ❣️ 💗❤

[@gilgamesh_1660]

You should have mentioned how good her synergy with daddy Douman is

[@denzelmedes1780]

Van gogh gang rise up

[@spookyshaddoll4480]

Been using this deranged psycho since release and it hasn’t let me down once. Maybe be because of the lv 120 the max skills or the appends but it doesn’t matter. The true factor is the absolute insanity that is making foreigners be even more berserk than the Berserkers

[@t0pdoc]

I have seen so many fgo tubers gush over Van Gough and then I used her from the support list to solo the recent Summer Event in NA and It made me dump all my tickets and sqs on the re ent Van Gough Banne and I haven't gotten anything yet 😭

[@MoonPrincess28]

I'd really like Van Gogh. I really do. But man. I couldn't get her in her intro banner and this banner, all my SQ were eaten by Summer Kama. ;- ;

[@ncrnmcn]

I got her last night with 11 pull😭😭😭

[@forte609]

Same here

[@Azure70]

I can’t believe I got her. Like two minutes before the reset Thanks to God Now I should have enough for Skadi

[@yoandra9896]

Guys do you know when the quick buff will come to NA?

[@Bathtub_Toaster]

I spent 630 SQ on that banner. The only 5* that showed up was Vritra.

[@OtakuDono]

I have failed to get her on every single banner so far, GSSRs and all. orz

[@magna7446]

0:40 wait, why raikou?

[@alexstar9871]

Double Goghie can cheese at most every battle in the game

[@yammoto148]

Huis? Google translate gets it wrong. The ui sound is familiar to the OI sound but because it has a U its pronounced more deeply, so you drag out the U a bit so it sounds like Huuis.

[@maracabo1176]

Van Gogh has cursed me, every time her banner appears i roll and i get a spook, first it was Xiang Yu, then Ganesha, when Jeanne appeared i literally just threw my phone to the ground and later burned her out of hatred Van Gogh hates me and i don't know why, if pity existed back then i would have gone over it twice

[@octapusxft]

Van Gogh... the interesting servant I just cannot roll for because I always have to save my SQ for much bigger fish... Who knows maybe one day she will be my consolation prize in a GSSR where I am targeting someone else. Or.... if they actually cut the pity down to 450 sq from 900

[@Ayumu31]

why did her rerun had to come after summer...I'm still y but not getting her...

[@ThatFateGuy69]

Finotaisen with his hilarious voice.

[@Kiraidi720]

Van Gogh and Summer BB go really well together, yeah Light Koyan brings more immediate benefits to her but you get the benefit of hand-picking your DPS for the fight depending on card RNG, whether it's BB or Gogh you get some disgusting damage for 3 turns which can oftentimes just destroy the fight at hand outright. Nothing stops you from running one LKoyan right after either, especially since her battery is completely standalone so you can give it to Gogh for an added "Atlas" CDR instead of its usually intended purpose.

[@clyvetruises9587]

Did he call Beast of Sodom "regular Nero" like🤣🤣🤣🤣 ...

[@jj12343211]

I need something clarified: did you say Van Gogh is the only servant with defensive class advantage against Berserkers other than Draco Nero? Because... that's just a Foreigner thing?

[@Finotaisen]

"This makes them outstanding picks against Berserkers in particular since aside from Draco Nero, they’re the only servants with defensive class advantage against them." Them referring to Foreigner-class servants.

[@fakestorm99]

Yes… the better Orion.

[@Sb142sf]

Clytie is best. Double clytie is YES!

[@pougetguillaume4632]

Well lf course she is underated. Some people can't fathom the idea of soloing, i've legit been in an argument where the other guy literally said "why would i ever use X servant when i can just 3T loop with arjuna alter" The brain rot in some player is real Anyway rant over

[@chrizzel28]

Gogh tier, you mean... also respect for trying to get her name's pronunciation right, even if you didn't get it entirely right. Also you botched Het Gele Huis completely, but it's funny so I'll let that slip, ehehe...

[@gonnacry3278]

She was underrated?

[@ChipRed87]

Oh sweet, this is conveniently timed, I just rolled her.

[@tallesrodrigues5994]

Same, just this morning ✌

[@lordtea]

Next buff Every strong curse only deal 1/10 of damages on her 💥

[@metaknightisbrokeninssbbra1782]

I feel like curse of the sunflower would have been much better if it capped the damage of curses to 1 instead of making them unable to kill her

[@lordtea]

​​@@metaknightisbrokeninssbbra1782her curse damage to her is ok But sometimes bosses or mobs or other servants curse like Douman is difficult for her to handle and it will disrupt your survival just to maximise her np Once all strong curse eats her hp to 1 then come a random attack Boom u dead 💀

[@lordtea]

​@@metaknightisbrokeninssbbra1782so I hope she gets little resistance against the strong curse

[@jz0248]

​@metaknightisbrokeninssbbra1782 That would be too OP, considering she already has evade, guts and terror. If they did that, every curse enemy would be nullified by just having her absorb all curses. Not to mention her NP gauge would also always be filled up by her 1st skill as long as she has 10 curses. And she can easily heal or clear curses with CCs. Keeping curses on her was definitely intended to be a balancing act

[@ivanbluecool]

Underated? My corner of the fgo community talk about her constantly. Though I don't want to roll for her. If she had that cute one piece swimsuit in the summer 6 ce I'd have rolled so fast I'd make acchiles blush

[@zenmode3125]

I don't know if this is a compliment or not, but your voice is so soothing, I can't tell if it's your real voice or an advanced text to speech voice 😅 Anyway, thanks for the guide!

[@dfih1592]

Gogh is broken

[@kiszkjmt8564]

Like is she? All I ever hear about her are the good thing. And I can't be mad either at geting her instead of Ashiya. I also need to note, that her VA godamn nailed it, notably these awkaward laughs. But yeah, if she's indeed uderrated, that's godamn sad, how characters that aren't 3 turn farmers and meta supports are overlooked. Like Castoria and Salieri might have all your lotto farming needs covered (yeah, so many "likes" ik).

[@memoryofsalem4474]

Imagine not mentioning Douman. 100% crit, 40% atk up, more quick cards to help with crit stars and Douman himself crits like a bus, more def down on enemy, more terror, atk down to help with survivability. Attempting to be original only shows that you aren't exactly all that smart.