YMMV / King's Raid

• Angel/Devil Shipping: Ezekiel and Theo are shipped thanks to their interactions in-story. Ironically the former is literally a half-demon, but his non-demon persona is a Nice Guy.
• Awesome Ego: As far as most players are considered, Cain's massive ego is completely justified and glorious to behold. Justified as he is a literal God King renowned for his leadership skills and prosperous rule.
• Broken Base: The Soul Weapon update. It was extremely divisive amongst the fanbase when it was launched and seen as a blatant cash grab for those players focused on Pay To Win (and very jarring given the F2P-friendly nature of the game), while others liked the new meta that it left on its wake, giving a second wind to previously overlooked characters or allowing new gameplay mechanics. However, most of the controversy died down after a few months and several updates later by Vespa.
• "Blind Idiot" Translation: Needless to say, the current English localization of the game leaves... a fair amount to be desired. Some of the interstitial loading screens are almost memetic among the EN fanbase.
  "Got the QUEST DONE?? That eases so many work!!"
  • One of the most infamous examples is that parts of the game straight-up can't agree what the world tree sprite is named - in story dialogue, it's "Rhill", but in the world tree's system menu, it calls itself "Lill"!
• Ensemble Dark Horse: With so many characters, its no surprise.
  • Gladi is unquestionably one of the most popular male characters in the fandom, and thanks to a combination of his personality, appearance and gameplay performance, is easily the most popular of the recruitable shop NPCs.
  • If the sheer amount of Fan Art is anything to go by, Arch, Chase, Crow, Ezekiel, Mitra and Theo are also very well-received.
  • Among the girls Epis is frequently cosplayed, while Scarlet is liked for being a Badass Adorable Warrior Princess.
  • Neraxis is liked for the combination of his edgy, yet caring personality and the fact that he is the very first male magical tank in the series, as well as his unorthodox outfit.
  • Lucias quickly became one thanks to his beautiful appearance and backstory.
    • Esker, for being Childhood Friends with Lucias and being an endearing Anti-Hero.
  • Like Gladi before him, Cain reached playable character status in no small part thanks to his massive popularity. Even before becoming a playable character himself, he was as common in Fan Art as some of the most popular already playable characters. As a muscle-bound, handsome God King who was well-liked by his subjects in-universe for being a charismatic Reasonable Authority Figure, Cain quickly attracted a sizeable fan following. For some, it also helps that he is basically the series equivalent to Ozymandias and/or Gilgamesh, but without needing a Draco in Leather Pants treatment.
  • Pansirone, a sub-boss of chapter 9, became this due to her looks, her skills, and her hilariously violent personality. Fans were clamouring for her to appear in the game, and Vespa delivered in December 2019 with her very own event (and starring in the Christmas event with fan favourite Mitra and providing with plenty of Ship Tease between the two of them).
• Fan Nickname: There are quite a few used in the fandom:
  • Artemia: ''The Queen'' by her fans; however, her detractors call her Fartemia.
  • Cain: Daddy Cain or King Cain by his fans^note Because of his badassery and his Awesome Ego, and Caincer by his detractors ^note Because how broken he is on PVP.
  • Cecilia: She gets called Ceci^note shortened form of her name or Karen^note Because of her resemblance to Karen Araragi in appearance, personality and fighting style hasn't gone unnoticed by the fans.
  • Ezekiel: Pudding Boy ^note Because of his love for pudding.
  • Laudia: Lewdia^note Due to her Stripperific default outfits.
  • Lewisia: Lewdisia^note Due to the amount of cleavage she shows on her adult form.
    • Her initial form is nicknamed Lolisia.
  • Loman: Lolman^note an intentional misspelling of his name.
  • Seria: Got nicknamed as Akame.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Crow x Mitra. Given that Mitra is quite literally the primary target of Crow in-game, as well as the two men having contrasting personalities, its clear why the pairing is so popular.
• Friendly Fandoms: A respectable number of people playing Fate/Grand Order and/or Granblue Fantasy (who already have a Friendly Fandom Rivalry between each other) end up playing this game along with either of the two. Or both.
• Game-Breaker: Baudouin was so meta-defining in PvP that Vespa released Leo specifically to counter him and released Scarlet later to counter those two.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: In its native Korea, the game is reasonably popular but often drops down a fair bit in the app rankings (partially because of how intense its competition is there) and is something of another face in the crowd. However...
  • In Japan, it has become one of the absolute juggernauts of the mobile RPG market, particularly in the Android market (where the game often manages to crack the incredibly competitive top ten grossing list and even occasionally the top five) because of a combination of the comparative uniqueness of its mechanics (specifcally its character acquisition model and approach to PVP and the balancing thereof) in relation to the rest of the market, Vespa recruiting an absolutely killer voice-over crew for the Japanese localization, and whip-smart, highly effective advertising campaigns that get the game a lot of visibility and only get better and more visible the more the game earns. The game, at this point, actually pulls in the greater portion of its revenue from Japan!
  • The game is also quite popular in Taiwan and Singapore, especially compared to the overall size of the population and potential userbase. Singapore, for example, produces about a one-fourth the revenue the Korean market does for the game - despite Singapore's population being one tenth the size of South Korea's.
  • Comparatively, it is worth noting that it has not achieved similar success in the main Anglophone markets like America. The game does okay for itself in America (most estimates place the US userbase, or userbase with US-identifying phones, as the third-largest overall, in terms of both size and revenue) but the game rarely breaks the top 100 on the top grossing charts and remains comparatively obscure. Among other things, the lack of quality in the English localization often takes some of the blame for giving potential users the wrong impression about the game's overall quality.
• Growing the Beard: While the story can be fun before it, many people agree that Chapter 9 is where things really get interesting due to the character interactions, reveals, and the huge end-of-chapter plot twist. It also helps that the English localization for the chapter is surprisingly solid compared to the prior chapters.
• Ho Yay:
  • Mitra and Crow have a subtext-laid dynamic, with the former being the subordinate of the latter during their time in the navy.
  • Clause is very fond and protective of Kasel, even casually offering to discard his status as a knight so he could join Kasel's group. There is also the fact that he resents Lua for laying such a heavy burden on Kasel, making Clause one of the few heroic characters who criticize Lua for anything at all. Taken up to eleven as Rebel Clause when he vows to save Kasel and Frey even if it means going against Lua.
  • Being Childhood Friends, Lucias and Esker have plenty of subtext.
• Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Obviously Kasel...
  • ... but Crow takes it even further. Aside from being frequently shipped with Mitra^note by far the most common pairing for Crow and Chase, he is also being paired with Ezekiel and almost every other guy in the cast.
  • Chase is likewise shipped with at least a half of the other characters in the ever-expanding cast.
  • Ezekiel is also slowly reaching this status.
• LGBT Fanbase: Gau, for being a manly Gentle Giant and Chase for his ripped body which is pronounced by his markedly revealing skin-tight clothes.
  • Crow, Ezekiel, Gladi and Mitra have also caught the attention of some Bara Fanboys.
  • Pavel's androgynous design and the whole female-soul-in-a-male-body situation is interesting for transgender people.
  • A subtle example happened in the Summer 2019 event, with Bernheim's cursed sword going nuts over Shea's harp. It's Played for Laughs and comes off in a way that wouldn't be out of place in a Looney Toons cartoon, but what makes it stand out is that both sentient weapons are male (or at least have male voice actors). Like Pavel above, it is portrayed as completely natural with the situation neither being defined by nor parodying the characters' genders .
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Any lighthearted Fan Art of Ezekiel and Crow will almost always either revolve around caramel pudding and lollipops respectively, or at least have them as background decoration.
  • Infamously, the above-mentioned awry English localization.
  • Shortly after his design was finally revealed, Lucikiel's imposing pectorals became this.
  • Lucikel's neglect of Ezekiel is recurrently exaggerated into full-blown Hilariously Abusive Childhood.
  • I-isn't that vandalism?!◊ ^note A picture of Leo exclaiming this phrase will crop up whenever someone posts fanart of Leo's dignity about to be affronted (either by having a female character about to assault him or an embarrassing picture from VRChat using a Leo avatar)
• Memetic Psychopath: Ezekiel is one in the fandom for his violent fighting style and being an out-and-out Ax-Crazy Anti-Hero. Nobody actually minds it.
  • Mitra is another one thanks to his violent Blood Knight tendencies that often result in everyone nearby (including allies) getting attacked by him.
  • Pansirone gets also this (deserved) reputation, especially after her portrayal in the 2019 Christmas event, in which she and Mitra caused enough property damage and vandalism that ruined everyone's Christmas parties.
• Moe: Plenty of characters qualify, but special mention goes to Luna, Rephy, and Leo.
• Misaimed Fandom: Due to the identity of a spirit possessing him being female, a surprising number of people will swear up and down that Pavel is a transwoman or nonbinary, despite multiple moments in the story referring to him as a man, the game only ever using male pronouns to describe him, and Word of God saying quite plainly that he identifies as a man.
• Multiple Demographic Appeal: The numerous characters each having their own unique quirk(s) results in this: there's Fanservice for both male and female players; characters with intriguing Hidden Depths (Crow being a good example); even breaking away from Testosterone Poisoning by having multiple more emotionally unperplexed male characters without resorting to Ukefication (Gau being the most obvious one).
• Popular with Furries: Gladi, for being a buff animal hybrid of a Lynx.
• That One Level: Not just one level, but an entire chapter. As of August 2019, the latest chapter, Chapter 9, is brutally hard to the point that even people who have been trying to optimize their characters find it difficult to get all stars on certain stages. On top of that, Chapter 9 suddenly switches the 4-man team format used for the previous 8 chapters for a 6-man team format and thus the battles are intended to be fought with 6, fully geared people. This can come as a surprise for players who did not read up on chapter 9 beforehand, as many players (especially those who are newer) would be focusing on optimizing four characters and would not have two additional characters ready to handle Chapter 9's powerful enemies.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Kasel himself is this, as he frequently mentions not being a popular person and remarked how he was ignored while Roi was fawned over during their adventures in the desert. In spite of that, he's still the Launcher of a Thousand Ships in most of the Ho Yay pairings and has a dedicated following. Taken up to eleven after he reverts from the Dark Lord curse where almost everyone hates him now.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Because of his pink hair and shy personality, Leo is frequently mistaken for a girl. (His summer swimsuit skin seems designed to play on this confusion.)