Can temporarily manifest an imagined sword into reality

>this process also replicates the weapon's history and the battle experience of its prior wielder(s), meaning the current user can fight even without any serious sword training
He's far inferior. At best he does a lesser imitation.

>archer
>uses sword

He technically beats Gilgamesh

This franchise has produced nothing of quality outside of the theme music for Shirou and the Fate/Zero anime

shooting swords with a bow is the highest level of archery
youtu.be/9_0_1SPpA5s

Only because he exploits the fact that Gilgamesh never remotely takes him seriously and always prefers to just spam GoB instead. He'd NEVER beat a Gil who treated him even remotely with any sense of proper annoyance. Ever.

so ass pull shit
stacking “coincidences” doesn’t suddenly make this good writing
he’s still a mary sue

It's just an asspull to allow an autistic Japanese high schooler to battle mythical heroes. God, Fate is fucking dogshit.

Yes, that is quite literally what it is

It's stops being "defying expectations" when it happens every single time.

>technically
But he doesn't. Unlimited Blade Works collapses before he lands a decisive blow, then Angra Mainyu interrupts the fight.

He still fought a servant and won.
Every servant has flaws that make them less than invincible. Pride is Gilgamesh's. You can't call exploiting your opponent's flaws cheating.

wait never mind I see that this is in response to OP's retardation

with how easy it is for them to set up rituals to kill tons of people and collect tons of mana casters should win every grail war

>Behold, this is Gae Bolg! The cursed spear that reverses the nature of causality, the meaning of "cause and effect" in the order of things, to make it so the cause of the "lance being thrust" comes from the effect of the "opponent's heart being pierced" by it! It determines the opponent's fate simply through its use, an always fatal move that pierces the heart with one thrust! It is an attack on destiny itself, a top-notch power just a step away from the Authority of the Gods! The actual action of the thrust is merely a formality, as the lance has already pierced the opponent's heart before the attack has even started! The "result" of "the heart of the opponent has been pierced" is created earlier than it is thrust, while the "cause" that "the lance has pierced through the heart" is generated later! If it is released, the opponent is dead!

>Granted this only if your luck stat isn't high enough. Because in that case the spear is just a worthless piece of shit.

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The biggest plot hole in this series is that you can lower some of your servants stats to raise the other and not a single retard has decided to just luck max Cu.

>Because in that case the spear is just a worthless piece of shit.
Actually even if you pass the luck check you still get stabbed in the chest and it fucking hurts and usually settles the match shortly after.
Cu won that fight, but his command spell forced him to flee.

your fault for watching gatcha shit

>236758477
imagine being this retarded

Him fighting servants is literally plot armor. Even Nasu said that his fight with Gil was hundreds upon hundreds of "good rolls" and normally Shirou is pretty weak in the world of magi.

Consider that there are 45 ends to Fate/Stay Night and only 5 of them end with Shirou not dead or wishing he was.

He had backup from Rin. It's always a team effort

The fuck are you talking about? The changing stats shit is all just a matter of mana supply.

Well, besides Enkidu, but that's specifically one of his unique powers

Just setting up some rule to just break a minute is only defying expectations on the most technical level it is not at all a wow cool moment

Instead, they're set up, reminded again 20 hours later, then broken another 30 hours later. By that point, it's a pretty wow cool moment.
Fate/Stay Night is a long goddamn story.

okay but that still doesn't explain why no one has luck maxed Cu.

>Never summons one of the strongest weapons belonging to his servant
why?

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He traces Excalibur in Heaven's Feel, retard.

>replicate the skills and techniques of a legendary warrior
>still have shit for worth human baseline strength and attributes
>somehow doesn't get immediately bodied by gilgamesh
?????

At which moment? I don't remember.

Tracing Excalibur kills him dummy. Even Archer says he can't handle it.

>his onee-chan doesn't love him
Embarrassing

I see. What if he was using someone else's mana, as he did to Rin?
No, a better question! Can ARCHER trace Excalibur?

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He never win against servants by himself, and when he does he dies and get a bad end.

I only remember him doing Caliburn

>baseline strength
False, greater mastery of his power makes him capable of replicating some of the SKILLS and STRENGTH of all previous user's weapon. This has been shown not only during Gil fight where he's able to react to Gil's getting GoB weapons to destroy it but also in Heaven's Feel Nine Bullet Revolver Scene.

Sometimes I wonder if people truly watch anime or not.
He did not win at all, that is painfully clear even in the anime: all he did was landing a blow on Gilgamesh because he wasn't taken seriously, and that was thanks to that plus UBW being GoB's natural counter, and Rin's buff.
If Angra Mainyu did not kill Gilgamesh Shirou would be dead as fuck.

>What the fuck? This is bullshit.
The whole point of a spell is to be usable. What is the point of summoning a weapon if you don't know how to use it?
It is a staple of gaming that if a mage summons a spectral weapon, that they would automatically be proficient in its use for the casting duration. This is despite the fact that they would otherwise not have the physical strength to wield it.

This is NORMAL. it's like having an immortality spell that also grants you troll-scale regeneration. it is what we call "required secondary powers".

It's only really clear in the VN though, since the anime doesn't have monologues and doesn't explain as much what's going one.
Don't forget his job was to hold back Gil until Rin and Saber destroy the grail.
The skills and strenght does have slighty malus compared to the original article desu, so luck and Gil's arrogance were vitals during the fight.

Normal ending
He doesn't do it in the true ending

hm, I've only watched the anime so I wouldn't know.

youtube.com/watch?v=j4xsfkhcw-A

Are we not counting him and Saber killing Berserker with Caliburn?

>and Saber
No, we are not.

He only wins solo against Archer because it was a meme philosophical fight

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NASU
this answer all question you have

>Shirou never, even once in the entire VN, "fights a servant and wins"
based CTRLnigger

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Archer willfully stopped fighting, read the scene again.

>"I won, Archer."
>d-doesn't count
Germany "willfully stopped fighting" WW1 as well

>B-BUT NASU DID IT SO ITS OK
Like said, this is the most hacky way ever for creating plot twists, saying something can't happen only for it to happen afterwards is one dimensional dogshit writing.

>noooo you can't just break the heckin rules!
What a retarded bit of """criticism."""

kek

Dumbass, he literally stopped fighting and just let Shirou stab him. Read the whole route to the end, it's the last scene of UBW where you learn it. Archer was never surpassed, he just stopped moving.