>The red eyes only show the intent to brutally kill the enemy

>>161122775
My bro Gil isn't afraid of that gaylord.

>>161122775
No red eyes is divinity look at Gil, hercules and Cu, it can sometime be gold like rhongominyad and ozymandias

>>161122775
Because Unlimited Blade Works trumps most of the abilities that Gil has in his arsenal. EMIYA at full power and Mana with no injuries can easily defeat Gil.

>>161124054
A serious Gil could defeat any servant.

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>>161124107
It doesn't matter, he's never serious 99.9% of the time, he's an arrogant douchebag who only gets serious the split second before he gets BTFO'd.

>>161122775
Gil has ability to read other Servants abilities, so he knew about UBW and that it might problematic

>>161124160
>never serious 99.9% of the time

Think about your words anon.

But yes, I agree. Unlimited Blade Works >>>>>>> Gate of Babylon. If Gil just used Ea, he would be fine. But he won't.

>>161124107
Serious EMIYA could defeat any servant too because he can just snipe them from across a city. They both have character faults of not caring, it's part of who they are. "Serious Gil" doesn't exist so it's pointless to think about it.

>>161124353
Serious EMIYA was in HA. Sniping didn't work though

>>161124353
>Serious EMIYA could defeat any servant

Hercules would like to speak with you. Or growl incomprehensible sounds with you.

>>161124054
You know a HARD COUNTER for UBW? A fucking sword. A simple fucking sword is enough to stop UBW.

>>161124107
I don't think so, it's clear Gil being a brain damaged retard who constantly jobs is an inseparable part of his character

>>161124259
>Unlimited Blade Works >>>>>>> Gate of Babylon
How so? THE only thing UBW has is a faster firing speed. That's literally it. And even that is not really an advantage, considering how long it actually takes to use UBW.

GoB has far more verity and versatility, containing pretty much everything from weapons capable of immense damage, to fucking space ships, to shields and armors strong enough to block NPs, to the best fucking wine. It also only takes only a split second to use, and is actually unlimited, unlike UBW, which only lasts as long as the users Mana does. UBW is fucking trash in a fight, while GoB is OP as all fuck.

>>161124107
>Gil
>Serious
Pick one. Gil's greatest weakness is his arrogant pride. He always underestimates his enemies, even when he deems them a threat or a worthy opponent. He always assumes that he'll come out on top, and it costed him his life when he fought Saber and Shirou.

The ONLY time he DID get completely serious was when he tried to kill Sakura before she could transform into the avatar for Avenger. He failed and was devoured.

>>161124353
>"Serious Gil" doesn't exist so it's pointless to think about it.
He went serious against Iskander out of respect to him as a worthy rival tho

>>161124811
Speed means a lot. Yes, GoB has a better and more diverse selection, but whaling on the opponent with countless blades really fast will trump most of it.

>>161124185
And Jeanne can read servants true name.
But suddenly cant read Archer name.

>>161124811
Yes, the whole point is that Gil needs to kill Emiya before he gets to deploy UBW, once he's inside UBW he's pretty much fucked unless he uses Ea at full power, something he refuses to do 99.99% of the time because hurr durr not worthy of using Ea on

Why the fuck doesn't EMIYA ever exploit the fact that he has a treasury full of Noble Phantasms with diverse and useful effects and instead insists on challenging the other Servants to direct, head-to-head battles equipped with a pair of plain swords whose biggest gimmick is a boomerang effect?

>>161125138
Gil has a million defensive NPs that can grant him total protection from vanilla blade spam, he's just too pompous to use them against Shirou.

>>161125241
He's chagrined and wants to suffer.

>>161125164
EA is an anti-world NP. UBW will crumble to pieces if Gil merely activates it.

>>161125241
Because he has zero(0) interest in winning the war?

>>161125307
If that was true he would've just jobbed against Heracles instead of killing him six times.

>>161125287
Only if he activates it in world-destroying mode like he did inside Iskander's MW

>>161122775
He knew his dick was bigger

>>161125241
Yeah and he's probably fought every servant there at least 5 times and knows their strengths and weaknesses and remembers it.

They just want him to stabby stabby and fail at or not use his archery abilities because of chuuni boner

The excuse is that he honestly doesn't give a fuck about the war and wants to kill shirou and be free of his hellish life.

>>161125361
He didn't fight Heracles to win the war.

>>161125361
He was ordered to stall Berserker as long as possible.

Also he barely ever gets a chance to use the full extent of his powers besides the fight against Berserker at the begining of UBW

>>161125164
Shirou's gambit only worked because he baited Gilgamesh into a dick-measuring contest to see who could spam swords faster, the ONLY thing UBW is better than GoB at.
If Gil had actually bothered to activate any of the NPs in his Gate instead of just firing them Shirou would've been fucked.

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>>161124107
Gil couldn't kill fucking shirou

>>161125164
Why doesn't gill just throw random shit at emyia?

>>161125241
He's actually super unskilled at it, so for Emiya, bladespam is just a waste of mana against skilled servants. Only reason it worked on Gilgamesh was because UBW 1:1 copied him.
Nasu even mentions in some interview or material that bladespam wouldn't work on the average knight class and it's Gilgamesh's capability that makes it effective.

>>161125478
Why didn't Emiya just tell Rin to offer Cu some dog meat?

Honestly having Hakuno as master makes Gilgamesh way better person

>the most powerful servant in the history of mankind is a ginger teenager who was too lazy to actually master a weapon or skill so he invented some copypaste bullshit magic and literally stole everyone else's abilities that they worked a lifetime for
>this man is the "protagonist"

Wow.... what a story...

>>161125138
No, no it means literally nothing. The speed means literally nothing when you need a 15 seconds chant before you can even fire your first shot. In that amount of time, literally every servant can kill Archer 15 times over.

>>161125519
Taking out any NP not named Kanshou or Byakuya or Caladbolg II and activating it!= bladespam.

Case in point: Hrunting.

>>161125626
For fuck's sake Archer doesn't need to stand still to chant UBW.

>>161125447
>If Gil had actually bothered to activate any of the NPs in his Gate instead of just firing them Shirou would've been fucked.
Except that he wouldn't have time to do so because by the time he got his handsnon any NP, Shirou was already in his face with the exact same NP because projection is instantaneous inside UB.

Did you even play the scene?

>>161124949
Didn't he underestimate her healing ability? Also did he use Ea?

>>161125519
>Nasu even mentions in some interview or material that bladespam wouldn't work on the average knight class and it's Gilgamesh's capability that makes it effective.
Which is stupid considering Saber is shown to have trouble dealing with bladespam whether it was from Gil or Emiya.

The only Servant that ever displays immunity against it is Cu who has Fucking Protection from Fucking Arrows.

>>161125687
You do realize Gil doesn't just have swords in his Gate and he has NPs he does not even need to touch to activate.

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>>161122775
He knows he can't compete.

>>161125737
Nasu is just a moron who loves downplaying Shirou in interviews and retconing his feats with each new edition of the side material to make Servants look less like a bunch of jobbers

Could Archer make Rule Breaker into an arrow and snipe with it?

>>161125737
Whether you like the story or not, mechanically FSN has always been a mess that Nasu has literally handwaved away with "the power of love conquers all."

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>>161125846
It's almost like he realized having a bunch of japanese teenagers beat the shit out of legends of history/myth is kind of retarded in retrospect.

>>161125766
Which he wont use because muh faker not worthy of any my treasures, not to mention that UBW can also trace armors and defensive armaments albeit with an increased mana cost

Just face it, Gil is an arrogant jobber who always lets his ego get the best of him and gets fucked in the process

>>161122775
>"Faker..."
what did he mean by this?
no seriously, what was this

Could shirou beat shiki thono?

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>>161126055
Depends...

>>161125963
The point is that Gil has a million ways to shut down Shirou cold not named Ea, whether he's actually use them is another matter entirely.

>>161126055
No, Nasu specified that Shiki would fuck him up unless they both died of a brain failure.

>>161125687
Gil has actual bolts of lightning in his treasury. Like literal lightning, not a weapon. He has auto defense system that stops anything coming close to him by shooting bolts of lightning at them. He has shields capable of blocking NPs. He has fucking nukes.

The only reason he lost was because Nasu made him job against all odds, since the protagonist needs to win somehow. His not worthy bullshit isn't even consist with how his character has been used to fight weak shits ever since.

>>161126175
>His not worthy bullshit isn't even consist with how his character has been used to fight weak shits ever since.
Like?

>>161126236
The entirety of Extra-verse, the weak shit you encounter in GO, and in fighting things he doesn't even know in Strange Fake. So basically in his appearance in literally every Fate entry since.

Fate stay night.

Servants hide their name cause otherwise other servants can exploit their weakness.


No servants in 4th or 5th have exploitable weakness.

Only Achille in f/a have one.

>>161126370
stupid shit like that makes me mad. What the fuck is Arturia secret weakness? wtf. hide ur name hide ur waifu cuz u got a weakness lul

>>161124646
That's true when EMIYA is fighting most Servants. But when he's fighting Gil, UBW is the ultimate counter since Gil is a king rather than a warrior. He has a ton of weapons, but he never even attempted to master any of them.

EMIYA however not only can counter Gate of Babylon, but he can analyze the properties of all the weapons in UBW and of GoB and thus instantly use the most effective means of wielding them (not like a master, but close).

EMIYA and Shirou are outclassed by other Servants, other Servants are outclassed by Gil, and Gil is outclassed by EMIYA and Shirou. It's rock paper scissors. EMIYA can beat Gil.

>>161126370
Every servant has weakness. You're taking that word too literally. A weakness doesn't have to be a glowing weak spot that you can hit to kill them. It could be anything they're not good at handling. Take Blue man. He was killed by a type of holy spear brought specifically to kill him. Or Herc. Even if they don't get a specific weak spot for him, they know for a fact he can't cast magic, so they can make their plans accordingly with that to gain an upperhand.

>>161125729
Yes he did underestimate the healing ability, and no he didn't use Ea. The point is that that time was the most serious Gil has ever been, and even then he still held back. Even when he used the sneak attack Gate of Babylon on Archer after his dual with Shirou, he still underestimated Archer and was shot in the head by him at the end of UBW. That's the point I'm making. Gil is NEVER 100% serious with his enemies due to his arrogant pride, that is until he realizes he's about to be defeated and it's already too late. There's a reason why Gil is often referred to as the King of Jobbers.

>>161126498
Its not exploitable in the short duration of hgw.
His biggest weakness is geass. But no one can activate it.
Also you can troll him with dog to force him to fight you seriously but I wont recommand it.

Arturia have literally no weakness. She is perfect, cause she is nasu or takeuchi waifu

>>161126482
What I really meant was that UBW can be countered by a simple shower or use of a strong sword before it is even cast. Remember, throwing a really fucking strong sword is far easier than using UBW.

>a warrior
If you ignore his Herc/Arturia level strength and swords skills good enough to keep up with Arturia, as well as just endurance and strength to take on Enkidu in a fistfight. Gil's level of strength changes every time he shows up.

>he never even attempted to master any of them.
Except the one he has, called Ea. His own weapon, which only he can use. Only he has mastered.

Remember, these statements you're repeating are what Shirou claimed. He does not know Gil. He just made a simple observation. It doesn't have to be correct.

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Gil is literally perfect.

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>>161124495
Archer's Mana wasn't replenished in time when he fought Berserker. Even then he killed Berserker 5-6 times. Had EMIYA had full Mana and no injuries, he'd kill Berserker completely by using Nine Lives Blade Works like Shirou did.

>>161126733
Fucking piece shit. I'm so fucking glad that, I'M SO GLAD THAT HE SO FUCKING TSUN ABOUT IT.

>>161124259
Even if Gil uses Ea, Archer just needs to cut off Gil's arm before he can activate it.

>3 years have passed
>secondaries still cannot grasp basic concepts of F/SN
>secondaries still refuse to just read the VN

Why do you insist on being ignorant? There is still time, you can still read the VN. You don't have to be a dirty pleb your whole life

>>161124417
Except we are shown that serious EMIYA wins the war in 3 days in he goes full sniper-mode.

>>161126866
Ah, but what if Gil cuts his arm first?

>>161126898
I'm not going to waste 50 hours of my life just to fucking waste an another 100 hours to argue on the internet with strangers

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>>161126713
Ea takes a while to charge up and Archer is fast as fuck. He'd just literally disarm Gil before he could use Ea like Shirou did.

>>161126937
How can he when Gil is a shitty swordsman?

>>161126937
He'll grow a sword on the arm socket and use that.

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>>161126898
>Reading garbage.

I wish i could go back in time and kill myself so i end up erasing all the timelines where i read that pile of shit. I should have read Tsukihime.

>>161127001
Cutting your own arm doesn't take much skills.

>>161126985
In this moment, he traced EMIYA speed and strength?

Cause I am pretty sure, it's not a move an healthy teenager can do.

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Lmao stomps both

>>161126985
He can, if Gil just stands there doing nothing.

>>161127053
Obviously. And the anime kind of just exaggerates these to look good. In the VN, it's much more tame.

>>161127039
Why the fuck would Gil cut off his own arm? That's stupid.

As an idiot who watched F/Z first, I kept getting pissed off that masters kept fighting (and sometimes beating) servants in F/SN. F/Z makes it pretty clear that it's basically impossible under it's own (more sensical) rules, even if those rules came after F/SN. It makes a lot of sense that any servant would crush a master, so the battles are typically fought as MvM and SvS.

>>161127107
So that Archer can't? He can easily stop Archer from cutting his arm by doing it first. Are you retarded?

>>161126985
No need to bring out the glorious Ea for a lowly faker, Gil should've just wear his golden armor or bring out defensive NPs from GoB.
Too bad the MC's NP is plot armor.

Reminder that a serious Gil can be seen in Strange Fake

>>161127123
They only do that in F/SN.

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>>161127146
Then how is he supposed to use Ea before bleeding to death? Don't answer that. Youre obviously baiting.

>>161127197
Reminder that Strange Fake is fanfiction.

>>161127259
So is everything that's not the VN.

Are people actually using the fighting against Shirou, where he does LITERALLY NOTHING, as an basis of Gilgamesh's power? That was an exception, not an example.

>>161127259
So almost the whole Fate Franchise including Zero is fanfiction?

>>161127123
The whole "masters can't even hope to compete against servants" rule exists solely so tha Shirou can look cooler by routinely standing his ground or even beating servants

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>>161127197
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtIxgk3nKOw

>>161126654
Arturia is Takeuchi's waifu, Medb is Nasu's waifu

>>161127243
I think he means cut off archers arm, but the thing is gil can't cut off archers arm if he can't even beat the teenage version close quarters.

>>161127390
The issue is that Shirou was never cool. If Kotomine or Kiritsugu did it, it would make sense, considering their obvious abilities and large amounts of training. Shirou is implied pretty easily to be a newbie, and while I could imagine EMIYA beating Gil, Shirou doing it is absurd as all hell (even considering the "Gil is an arrogant bastard" factor).

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>>161127328
>where he does LITERALLY NOTHING,

I can't believe I have to go all out against a fraud like you!

>>161126927
Where?

>>161127580
My fanfiction check it out

>>161127356
>including Zero

Zero is the most fanfiction of them all

>>161127356
The VN and Zero are canon. Everything else is fanfiction.

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This shit right here is why I gave up on Fate after S/N, H/A and Zero. Nasu's not only turbo autistic when it comes to his MUH PSEUDO RPG SYSTEM, he can't make it consistent for shit.

Add non-stop powerlevelling and ten thousand spinoffs featuring the same characters BUT ALTER/GENDERBENT/BIG TITS/WHORE/DIFFERENT CLASS MEANS DIFFERENT PERSONALITY/DIFFERENT CLASS + ALTER, etc etc and it's clear at this point he's just making shit up as he goes to appeal to his rabid fanbase, when the whole Fate setting is literally too big and complex even for the creator to keep track of, how the fuck can you expect quality writing?

I still fap to the doujins even though I know nothing of the characters, but fuck trying to understand Nasu's schizophrenic ramblings

>People take any fucking thing in a god damn video game as canon.
Yeah, because Gil totally solo NP'd every minion in CCC,GO and EXTELLA
Don't be fucking retarded.

>>161127799
>I still fap to the doujins even though I know nothing of the characters
/a/ in a nutshell.

>>161127356
GO is canon, everything else is fanfic waiting to be retcon by Nasu. He already changed Zero last year.

It's amazing how Fakerfags still can't accept the fact that Gil only let Shirou win, and even that only because plot demanded it and because that was his first appearance. He was overpowered back then, but he's gone through the roof with every entry in the Franchise ever since. Now he even has technology, magical technology, like fucking miniguns and fighter planes with nukes in his arsenal. No matter how much the fakers TRACE ON, they won't be keeping up with dozens of bullets coming their way every single second.

Just accept and move on. Whatever the fuck you may think of the character, his entire point is to be stupidly overpowered. Something that is stupidly overpowered winning isn't a surprise, nor is it an insult.

>>161128002
Explain

>>161128072
>Gil only let Shirou win
More like he underestimated him and got RICED hard.

>>161128002
This is /a/, death of the author is our bread and butter.
The fate fandom on here has been selectively choosing canon based solely on what they like since CM3.

>>161128185
>The fate fandom on here has been selectively choosing canon based solely on what they like since CM3.

What do you mean by this?

>>161127840
???? Extra was Nasu's pet project and why does a video game being a medium to tell a story make it any less real than a fucking VN?

>>161128217
CM3 killed a lot of people's ideas on canon and many VNfags to this day refuse to accept parts of it.

>>161128225
Because player action=/= plot action
You could go through each boss fight and not even bother NPing to keep Gil as his cocky self, or you could solo NP every single enemy you ever meet.
You gonna tell me the second one is canon because one person did it?

>>161128322
>CM3 killed a lot of people's ideas on canon and many VNfags to this day refuse to accept parts of it.

Like what?

>>161128443
Been awhile but I definitely remember Excalibur being unprojectable blasting a lot of booties.

>>161128381
No, I'm going to tell you the second one matters because that's literally the entire point of allowing player to do it. If they thought it was out of character, they wouldn't even make that an option. Like how it isn't an option to just say fuck you to Moon Cell in the beginning, rather than doing it in the end. Because Gil doing that for no reason is out of character, as it doesn't make sense.

They even block the NP until a certain point in the games, so it's not even that they couldn't block it entirely for Gil. They didn't. Making it an option, something Gil is willing to do. That's the point.

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Reminder that unnerfed BASAKAH would have had everything statted as EX or A++. He was the BEST swordman at the time when Arthur and Mordred existed. No noble phantasm will save you if you get shafted by superior speed, power and reflexes. He is so amazing with a sword that every NP he has is forced to deactivate.

Lancelot would shit on everyone in Fate Stay Night had Rin summoned him. Even Gil would get fucked. Lancer cant even contest his power and ability in a fight.

Imagine if berserker was summoned by a competent magus that could handle the mana cost? It would be absolutely massacre, he is the strongest servant in Fate by a mile. Even Karma cant touch him

>>161128601
Arondight is A rank

>>161128002
GO is fucking cancer, thank fuck for another garbage Nasu.

>>161128592
Gil wouldn't let the Moon Cell block shit.
It's a video game and it's done for balance reasons, not story reasons, same reason they unblock it, because at that point in the game, not using it is impracticle.
However player action=/= plot action, you're sperging over nothing.

>>161128601
Yeah, but he would suicide willingly to AAASAA OU

>>161128637
If Rin would have had summoned him he should get at least one rank buff like Saber did with Shirou/Rin

>Strength: EX
>Agility: EX
>Mana: C
>Endurance: EX
>Luck: B (Can change to either direction)
>NP: A++
His sword was A++ like his gunho style which means theyre pretty damn good. Lancelot would shat on everyone with stats alone but his NP is close to a decent Rider one.

Going by the stats he is the strongest Servant in fate. For gods sake he can catch swords shot by Gilgamesh, Lancelot would destroy him if buffed

>>161128671
What's wrong with FGO? 5 books (so far) for Grand Order.

>>161128749
Again, you missed the entire point.
The point I was making with the blocked bit was that it has been made unavailable to the player. Making the NP not available has been done. If they really thought it was OOC for Gil, than they could have just not programmed his NP in CCC, and given the excuse that he didn't want to use it. The very fact that they added it in means they considered it not OOC for him. For example, even in CCC, you can't just insult Gil. Because if you did, he'd kill you. You can make fun of Tamamo all you want, but not Gil. Because taking that would be OOC for him. They literally removed an option from player because it doesn't work with Gil. They COULD have done the same with his NP. They didn't.

At that point, the creators are saying you can do it, it works without breaking character. If you argue that it's just OOC, they wouldn't put it in. Because there's no reason to. Fuck, there was no reason to even have Gil if it broke the character so much. But they did go through with it, because they didn't think it was a problem. If the creators are saying it's not a problem, what problem do you even have?

>>161128859
In GO, they are getting mana directly from Avalon and his stats are nowhere near that level.
Lancelot and Kariya have great compatibility, so even if he doesn't have the juice, his stats are almost all kitted out.

>>161126866
Archer won't be able to cut his arm off if Gil uses his armor. Armor + Ea + GoB then it's pretty much over for Archer. But as many anons said, it wouldn't happen because Gil can't bring himself to take Archer seriously because the moment he takes Archer seriously, that would mean losing to him. He's just too prideful.

Serious Gil is in CCC, F/HA and Grand Order (Babylonia chapter), right?

>>161129074
That only applies to Shirou. Archer is a Servant, no matter how much he cheated for it, so Gil wouldn't treat him the same as he would Shirou.

>>161129074
>the moment he takes Archer seriously, that would mean losing to him
Yeah, that's why he went out of his way to kill Archer first. That's a retarded bit that makes no sense added in the anime. He makes no such claims about losing for taking seriously in VN.

>>161129055
How strong would lancelot be with a better mage that had equal compability.

>>161126754
That was a blind handicapped, divinity loss, half dead herc he was barely able to kill once

Feika exists as a fail safe to Gil.

If he goes raging faggot mode EMIYA will just go behind you while Gil is wasting time trying to pull out his laser

>>161127799
I actually agree. F/SN is my favorite story ever, but I just can't get into all the spinoffs like FGO/Prisma Illya/Extra, etc.

Type Moon is probably hurting their legacy in the long run and most people are too intimidated to watch the fate series anyways since the absurd amount of spin offs.

>>161122775
gil just hated archer with a raw passion for being a piratefag.

>>161129166
Only in Strange Fake. His gayness for Enkidu made him decide he would never fight truly seriously against anyone but Enkidu.

>>161127799
power level scaling is one of the reason I hate it.

Hunter x Hunter will always have the best system

>>161129180
He wouldn't be any stronger, really. Kariya was forced to give him whatever mana he wanted since he couldn't control the flow, so he was generally fighting at top performance.
His stats are filled out, he'd just have more gas in the tank. Just like a car's performance doesn't depend on their gas, Berserker Lancelot doesn't really scale high with mana.

>>161129314
This is a really stupid thing to say considering the fact that chimera ants aren't remotely strong in the new continent - and were enough to insta-kill gon/killua after greed-island.

>>161129352
How the fuck is it stupid. Name a anime with better power system. Go head..

gil only gets serious is in CCC and beats everyone without much effort. he even tells the moon cell to fuck off.

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>>161128180
Shirou made it a fight of originals vs fakes which meant that Gil was screwed from the moment UBW came up. Even if he did get enough space to use EA, he would still 'lose' because that means he won by being a bitch and bringing out a weapon that couldn't be faked instead of proving the superiority of reals over fakes.

>>161129055
Yet Sabers stats are C when summoned by Shiro, B when under contract with Rin and A while summoned by Kiritsugu. Id take VNs over gachalore any day of the week.

>compatibility
Luck is dictated by that, not pure stats. Or will you argue that Kiritsugu was better match than Rin?

>>161129397
fma

>>161129257
>hurting their legacy
It's not.
Check their sales and statements, reducing reliance on the VN and the original story has expanded their base many times over.

>>161129477
I'M FUCKING OUT OF HERE!!!

>>161129397
Because a monster that was previously lethal will be literal ant tier when they get off the boat. Power levels have MASSIVELY fluctuated in the last 2 arcs.

Don't even make me bring up Hisoka

>>161129521
O

>>161129477
fma's powersystem is virtual'y nonexistent.

for the most part it's just turning random shit into weapons(or in Mustang's case burning the shit out of everything)

>>161129477
What system? equal shit is just what the write want it to be.

>>161129595
Can you just fucking kill yourself you hxhtard. No one gives a shit about oh my rubber nen

>>161129453
>originals vs fakes
It was never that. The fakes are a rank below original. There's nothing to fight for there. The fight was to kill the other. Simple as that. And Gilgamesh didn't even consider fighting and practically threw the fight, while Shirou did, which is why he won.

>>161129457
Shirou wasn't supplying prana at all while Rin and Kerry were and had pretty equivalent stats outside of luck.

>>161124417
It only stopped working after the target already knew exactly what would happen after experiencing defeat countless times and used a command spell. And even then he says that if he'd been in full Grail War mode and had his swords prepared, then he would have been able to drive Saber away long enough for the arrow to finish off Shirou. He also wasn't receiving support from Rin at the time.

>>161129686
>"There's no need to be surprised. These are all imitations.
As you say, these are all trifling swords."
I reach out my arms.
The swords come out as if to accept me as their user.

"But there is no rule that an imitation cannot defeat the original.
If you say you are the original, I shall surpass every one of your weapons and destroy your existence."

>>161129457
>gatchalore
Takes precedence over every other piece of lore because it is both the newest lore and the lore tied to the flagship.
Besides, this is Zero lore.

>will you argue that Kiritsugu was better match
I guess I can. As people, they were much more similar than Rin and Saber, they just had different frames of reference.

>>161129585
MY

>>161130032
AVALON

>>161129585
>>161130032
>>161130081
kek

>>161129477
fma did good without a power system. it was more about the abilities of the fighters instead of the alchemy itself.

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>>161129905
>>161129744
Fate/Complete Material
>Artoria’s abilities rose when having Kiritsugu as Master. Her LCK status decreased since even Kiritsugu still could not provide sufficient magical energy, as a result the status was affected by the Master's way of life. When having Rin as a Master, Artoria was able to unleash her original abilities without being affected by the Master
>Because Artoria has served under several Masters, she is a good example for demonstrating the effect that the Master’s magical energy has on Servant Status. Because Shirou’s Magical Paths were obstructed, Artoria’s ability cannot be called that of the best Servant while having Shirou as her Master.

Here we see that Kiritsugu was a bad match of Saber causing her luck to fall even though he supplied magical energy(albeit not enough). Yet it rose when Shirou(who supplied nothing) was the master ergo its more about the personality than the amount of magical energy.

>Magical energy in GO is unlimited ergo stats are capped
Yet we see this isnt the case. Kiritsugu doesnt supply mana near as much compared to Rin yet Sabers stats are higher while summoned by him. How can it be?

>Also, if the magic energy of the Master is powerful, the Servant will become closer to his strength as in the legend.
Powerful doesnt mean more prana though. Kiritsugu was inferior to Rin as a magus but arguably more powerful in combat. Same goes for Aoko and Touko, one is shit at magic and has less prana while the other is a living prodigy. Yet Aoko is considered more powerful.

Ergo If BASAKAH had stronger master his stats would increase.

>>161130611
>>161130611
>inb4 lore from a thirdparty Gacha is more important than a book written by Nasu, who especially designed it to be a book about lore.
>But its old, gacha is newer!
Its being republished and translated. Nasu allow companies to publish old and outdated lore

>>161130759
>wouldnt allow

Will Gilgamesh become Grand Archer, Grand Saber or Grand Ruler? He's going to be one of them, but which one makes the most sense?

>>161122775
Fuck this.
Gil shouldn't act like a fag.
Archer is shit

>>161130611
Are you dumb?
Her luck fell because Kiritsugu was going to use her as a tool and no possible end with him would be good for her, that says nothing about her general compatibility since no amount of mana could keep her from being caught up in his grimdark.

>Powerful doesnt mean more prana though
It does. This isn't rocket science, being better at fighting doesn't give you higher magic output.

>>161126370
You can abuse the shit out of Lancers weakness if you know his name.
>Cu is fated to lose against any Ulsterborn wielding Caladbolg
Rin just needs to fly in an Ulsterborn to Japan and Archer can give him his traced Caladbolg. Then they just tell him to fight Cu.

>>161130792
He's obviously going to be Grand Gilgamesh.

>>161128601
He'd have been even better as literally anything other than a Berserker, like most other Berserkers.

>>161130792
He doesn't qualify for any Grand containers only one is Merlin and he ain't even dead. King Hassan was the Grand Assassin but he throw that away to be summoned by (you)

>>161126370
Just learning the names gives you an idea of their skillset. Even if it does not give you a clear weakness, such information is extremely viable.

>>161126049
man fatefags never answer anything

>>161131010
What qualifications does he not meet?

>>161124054
Unlimited Blade Works is only superior to Gate of Babylon in a single aspect; when set up, UBW's weapon draw speed is faster than GoB's.

>>161126049
Are you retarded?
It's because all of Archer's swords are fakes made by his tracing ability, all of them. What's worse is that they're actually inferior as part of Shiou's limitations as a magus and the nature of tracing.

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>>161128601
There isn't a universe where the normalfag Agravain couldn't rolfstomp Lancelot no matter what form he was in.

>>161130958
i can see this, and the only difference is hes even more hilariously arrogant and has access to even more stupid shit in GoB, but nobody can actually tell since hes too fucking arrogant to change up any of his shit.

>>161129806
The problem in that scenario was Shirou. Had Shirou not been there, Saber would have taken Archer down. The reason they kept losing was because Saber was forced to protect Shirou the whole time.

>>161126049
Really? it's simple as fuck

Gil hates EMIYA's copies, because his whole pride as a servant is how he has the original of every NP ever made, Archer being able to copypaste his precious original weapons is insulting to Gil, so he keeps calling Emiya a "faker" to mock him and remind him who the real deal is.

>>161124646
The only NP that can destroy UBW in Gil's hands is Ea, so long as he refuses to use it, Emiya can destroy every weapon in GoB, because Gilgamesh never learned to use them properly, only to throw them or swing them like baseball bats.

>>161128601
>Berserker stats: A+/A/A/A/B/A
>Emiya stats: D/C/C/B/E/?
>Emiya still killed him 7 times starting from melee range as a fucking archer
Reminder that unless it's luck or NP, stats don't mean anything in fateverse

>>161130921
>It does. This isn't rocket science, being better at fighting doesn't give you higher magic output.
It really doesnt, stats have multiple factors

>The summoning Master and local attributes have some influence, but it’s basically the hero’s known exploits, and the recognition afforded them by the people of the world, that decide these rankings.
>If Chu Chulainn had been summoned in his homeland Ireland, a castle, chariot, protection of sleeplessness, and the like would have been added probably.

>Powerful doesnt mean more prana though
>It does.
Yet how come people with less magic energy give servants better stats anon?

>>161122775
More like gay for garcher.

>>161131284
>implying emiya didn't get those 7 kills through shitting broken phantasm a fuckload of times before eating shit via running out of mana.

>>161131426
Well, what can he do the Bersercar besides shooting tactical nukes in his face?

>>161131288
What is this sophism?
With regards to the statement "Also, if the magic energy of the Master is powerful, the Servant will become closer to his strength as in the legend." it is directly regarding magic output and capacity.

>>161131571
Answer the question anon
>Yet how come people with less magic energy give servants better stats anon?

>>161125141
She can but he's a literally who. I doubt Emiya became even somewhat famous during his lifetime.

>>161131288
It's an issue of priority. Neither Kiritsugu nor Shirou have the mana capacity to cap Saber off. Thus the stats are adjusted to accommodate that. Kiritsugu has no interest in luck, leaving nothing to chance, so in order to maximize Saber's combat potential under Kiritsugu, her stat priorities align themselves accordingly. In order to make sure that Saber is as effective as possible, something has to give.

Under Shirou, Saber was more well-rounded, having better luck but overall inferior stats. Shirou could not grant Saber the necessary magical energy to max her out, but at the same time, she wasn't min-maxed to accommodate that. No, ultimately, what Shirou needed was a well-balanced Servant, and having high luck is ideal in this case.

>>161131623
It is a question unrelated to the point.
The poster claimed that "if the magic energy of the Master is powerful, the Servant will become closer to his strength as in the legend" means that being better in combat means that you summon stronger servants.

>>161131691
Sabers stats are higher because she was summoned in Europe, but Kiritsugu's luck is so bad it drained hers as well.

>>161131531
honestly if emiya had the ability to snipe at range instead of being stuck in close quarters where his swordsmanship is shit tier like he was i would honestly give that fight to emiya.
just like i'm fairly convinced herc has shit compatibility against Gilgamesh unless hes archer and can straight up ignore thrown projectiles like you see him do in F/SF.

>>161129171
Gil looks down on EVERYONE. He is arrogant and prideful to EVERYONE. Archer is no exception. He deemed him a threat but not one to that he thought could best him.
>>161129172
He tried to kill Archer because he deemed him a threat, but that doesn't mean Gil thought he would lose to Archer. Gil just has no honor and is THAT prideful and arrogant.

>>161131531
Make him ejaculate with his skill and swordsplay?
He was so fucking good at it Hercules snapped out of his Mad enhancement for a few seconds just to think to himself how much fun both of them could've had clashing swords together if he weren't under the mad enhancement.

>>161131799
He can't normally do that, he got mutated.

>>161131747
Why arent you answering the question? Wouldnt that mean more prana = more power is false?

>>161131831
Looking down != underestimating/not even fighting back. Even if he looks down on someone, he can still fight them. Something he didn't do with Shirou.

>>161131881
Because that would let you shift the goalposts. I answered why the original statement was wrong.

>>161131799
>shit tier swordsmanship
>his arm on a japanese teenager beat Saber Alter in a sword fight
>he can trade blows with Lancer in close combat
>even Heracles was mirin after their fight
Archer's sword skills were far from shit tier.

>>161132000
Oh I guess youre wrong then if you cant prove that more prana = more powerful servant. Seems like GO doesnt cap stats after all

>>161131796
That's got nothing to do with it. Environmental factors alone isn't going to max out a Servant's stats. The Master is just as important, if not moreso. For instance, even if Shirou were to summon Saber in Britain, he still wouldn't be able to max out her stats.

The important thing is magical energy. Neither Shirou nor Kiritsugu are capable of maxing out Saber's stats. Had she been summoned in Fuyuki, her stats under Kiritsugu would have been even lower. In the end, making Saber as strong as she could possibly be is utterly impossible for either Emiya short of using a Command Spell. They just don't have the capacity for it.

Think of it this way. Let's say that 100 units are necessary for Saber to reach her full potential, like in a tabletop RPG where you're given a certain amount of points to allocate to your character's stats. Two factors can affect the amount of points the Servant receives: the place where they're summoned, and the Master's own capacity as a Magus. With his own ability as a Magus, Kiritsugu can only give Saber about 60 points. The location she was summoned in gives Saber an additional 20 points. But that only gives her 80 points to work with. So Saber's stats are adjusted; in order to max out her other stats as far as possible, Luck has to be neglected.

>>161132044
>Also, if the magic energy of the Master is powerful, the Servant will become closer to his strength as in the legend.
>magic energy
It's in your own post. Quit being obtuse.

It's been over a fucking decade and this shit bait still exists.

Look you faggots. Shirou won because that was supposed to be it. That's where it was all supposed to end and Gilgamesh was the final boss. The protagonist needs to overcome him somehow. Back then, Gilgamesh had nothing but throw-able weapons, his armor, his chains and Ea. Shirou won back the, because Gilgamesh had literally nothing else he could do. That makes all your rattling gun and super shields and magical defense and lightning bolts from GoB to counter UBW arguments null and void. Because they DIDN'T FUCKING EXIST. Nasu didn't know everyone would start sucking Gilgamesh's dick after Fate/Zero. But everyone did, and so he continued pandering to those faggots. As a result, Gilgamesh got to absurd levels, where Shirou cannot possibly match him now. But it doesn't fucking matter. Shirou doesn't have to fight him now. He fought him when he had the advantage, when Gil had literally nothing he could do against Shirou except use Ea.

And yes, I know he fought again in the anime just a couple of years ago. Do you know what they did? They changed the fucking fight. They had Grail and Archer help Shirou out as he was DYING. Your Gil still fucking won, but Shirou remained the last man standing. Even then, there were faggots like you who complained how Gilgamesh didn't fight properly. Well fuck, do you want Shirou, the protagonist to fucking lose you fucking retards? Because that destroys the story. Learn to compromise a little. Sure, you're little claygay faggot can be the strongest, even Shirou can't beat him now, but at least for the sake of the story, let one victory go to Shirou. Even if you Gil would destroy Shirou in every fight, in that one fight, let the kid have it without bitching about how Gilgamesh didn't destroy the fucking story. Jesus fucking Christ.

>>161132147
>powerful means more prana
Yet thats not the case in the lore as we see less prana = more power. What gives anon?

>>161132241
What are you talking about? They explain it in the story. The reason Gilgamesh lost was because of Unlimited Blade Works' superior draw speed. As long as they're fighting, Shirou will always be the first to attack, meaning Gilgamesh will always be defending. This puts him at a disadvantage. Even if Gilgamesh threw out something huge, it takes time. In the time it takes for Gilgamesh to pull something specific out, Shirou can shoot a hundred Noble Phantasms at it, destroying it. This is exactly what happened at the end: Gilgamesh drew Ea, but Shirou already had two weapons in his hand, flying towards his arm by the time it was drawn.

The one and only condition for defeating Gilgamesh is raising Unlimited Blade Works while his guard is down.

To put it another way, a battle between Shirou and Gilgamesh is like a battle between two gunmen, one with his weapon already drawn and pointed at his opponent, while the other still has his gun in its holster.

>>161132241
>Gilfags are still butthurt their king of heroes got beat by a japanese highschool student
>b-but if he was serious he could win the grail war in one night
Yes but being that arrogant to the extent that it bites him in the ass is part of his character traits. Take that away and he isn't Gil anymore.

>>161132327
You are challenging a direct statement by the author on his own mechanics, man. Wringing your hands about how it's not the only factor doesn't change the truth of the statement.

>>161132447
Maybe if he didnt waste seconds fondling EA before drawing it, he could have parried Shirou

>>161132554
>challenging
Im challenging your intrepation of it given lore doesnt go its way

>>161132656
>Also, if the magic energy of the Master is powerful, the Servant will become closer to his strength as in the legend.
From that statement alone, find another interpretation.

>>161132576
He couldn't.

The entire fight, Shirou was always using the exact same swords as Gilgamesh. When he saw Gilgamesh draw a sword from his vault, Shirou drew the exact same sword. Because UBW's draw speed is faster, even though Gilgamesh reached for his weapon first, Shirou was always the first to attack.

But the part with Ea was different. Shirou didn't bother waiting to see what Gil was drawing, because he was already anticipating that ahead of time. While Gil was reaching for Ea, Shirou skipped the procedure of waiting for Gil to reach for a weapon first and instantly drew Kanshou and Bakuya.

How to win the Holy Grail War if you happen to summon Gilgamesh
>Hope Enkidu is in the war so that he doesn't act like an arrogant fuck
>Hope EMIYA isn't summoned to bait Gilgamesh into a thrown sword off
>thats it.

>>161132908
There are other ways.

>Summon Kid Gil.
>Summon Caster Gil.
>Earn Gil's respect and adoration.

>>161132447
You don't understand Gil's powerlevel at this point. He has been shown using Shields capable of blocking Noble Phantasms. The entire thing that UBW did to Gil was that it made weapons of equal-ish power and shoot at the originals before they could launch. That's the entire reason why Shirou didn't shoot a sword at Ea, instead he cut off the arm. Because he couldn't make a copy of that, thus he couldn't shoot a copy at that. Opening a Gate doesn't take time for Gil. What takes a split second is shooting the weapon from the Gate. That becomes a non issue when he's not shooting anything. When what he's drawing is not a bladed weapon that Shirou can copy and stop the original with.

Now, Gil has a plethora of things that can't be copied with UBW. He also has many ways to defend himself. A lot has been mentioned in this thread and you can just check the wiki for more. As for Shirou just destroying those things before they even come out, which isn't even possible for some of the shit he has now, Gil can defend that one particular item by simply opening a shit ton of Gates in front of that. There's never been a limit to how many he can open. And as mentioned before, he now has fucking bombs and magical machine guns. Things even Shirou can't defend himself from, no matter how fast he copies.

Point is, UBW counters Gil's projectiles. During F/SN, he only had projectiles. Now, he has pretty much everything.

>>161132950
>ask him politely without planning on backstabbing him

Why is it that anime-only fans like Ufo-UBW? Absolutely none of the actual mechanics are explained and things actually elaborated on in the VN are turned into complete asspulls in the anime.

>>161132708
Magic energy doesnt imply amount of prana ergo GO doesnt cap stats. For example Aoko has different magic energy compared to Touko even though Touko has more prana thanks to Aokos "simple circuits". Plus Aoko is considered more powerful while having less prana than touko. There is more to magic in fateverse than just sheer numbers anon

Also the fact that Kiritsugu who provided less mana than Rin provided better stats means that the notion of more prana = better is false.

>>161132908
Sure fire way is to be the main character. If Gil becomes the protagonists' servant, he doesn't HAVE to lose. So he'll just fuck everything.

Why is Gil such a lovable dumbass?
He unironically is one of the most entertaining characters in the franchise.

>>161132988
>why does anime-only fans like the anime
Gee, I wonder why.

>>161132950
>>Caster Gil
How is he any different from Archer Gil?
>>Earn Gil's respect and adoration.
How do you even do that?

>>161132962
Nope. Re-read the fight. Swordspam only negates swordspam. The main fight was a close-quarters fight between Shirou and Gil. Gil draws a weapon, Shirou draws the exact same sword even faster. They clash, and Gil is forced to break break both weapons in order to defend.

When Gil drew Ea, Shirou already anticipated it and had Kanshou and Bakuya drawn first. He knew it was coming, so he prepared beforehand.

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>has seen every NP there is and fought servants to the point he has a collection of their weapons in his reality marble
>can copy their experiences by projecting it.
Nah, he just didn't give a fuck.
Extella/Zero had him try hard and he managed against Gawain. Lu Bu, Vlad and only lost to Nero because he already too half-burnt half crumbled.

>>161133067
I'm not saying "anime-only" for everything, just that they went to UBW not having read the VN. The anime itself is bad when you don't already know the story, while it's a great spectacle when you do know the story and get to skip past all the minute details.

>>161133074
Caster Gil is Gilgamesh as the older, wise king of Uruk. He's far more benevolent than Archer Gil, more wise, more hardworking. He seals away Gate of Babylon, but his extremely huge number of powerful Mystic Codes allows him to be a Caster of the highest caliber, despite not being a Magus himself. He's still arrogant and self-absorbed, but he's a far better person than Archer Gil. His Alignment even changes from Chaotic Good to Lawful Good.

And if you want to earn Gil's favor, you just have to be Kishinami Hakuno.

>>161133117
Being Emiya is suffering though.

>>161133004
You haven't read Mahoyo or any of the surrounding material. Aoko doesn't have a different kind of magic energy, she's just more efficient. And her magic stock is still inferior even if she is better at fighting.
And Kiritsugu summoned Saber in Europe, where her fame is much higher compared to Japan, resulting in a better container.
There is still only one interpretation for the statement "Also, if the magic energy of the Master is powerful, the Servant will become closer to his strength as in the legend."

>>161133076
>Gil draws a weapon, Shirou draws the exact same sword even faster.
That's the entire thing I'm saying. He now can draw things Shirou can't copy. Which gives him an upperhand. For some examples, he can now draw magic. Automatic defense system that'll shoot lightning bolts at Shirou. These are things Shirou cannot copy and counter. Gilgamesh only really got these in later appearances, so in the original VN, he could not use these. Now, though, he's gone beyond being ridiculous.

>>161133198
Why can Redman never get a happy ending?

>>161133249
>Waiting for
And Im waiting for proofs given how lore contradicts it. My interpretation doesnt matter at all, what matters are proofs that more powerful = more mana. Powerful is a vague word after all

>>161133175
>Kishinami Hakuno
What personality traits does Gil appreciate in people though? He also respected Kirei for example and is apparently very compatible with Rin.

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>>161133281
> Yet, those hands will never hold anything
tis a curse

>>161133482
If he hated being a counter guardian and being summoned so much why doesn't he just trace rule breaker and use it to sever the contract?

>>161133413
To not be too high up your own ass. There's been an air of carefreeness among everyone he has liked. Though Kirei was initially more stuck up, with Gilgamesh's influence, even he became more "fun".

>>161133328
Lore doesn't contradict it on any point, retard.
Kiritsugu's Saber having high stats despite having less mana input can be attributed to another mechanic, ie fame.
The fame in Germany of King Arthur, where she was summoned in Zero, is higher than the fame of King Arthur in Japan, where she was summoned in FSN.

>>161133587
>The fame in Germany of King Arthur, where she was summoned in Zero, is higher than the fame of King Arthur in Japan
If she was summoned in 2017, would it still be true? Fate and other Japanese media has been featuring King Arthur pretty often, making him more popular these days in Japan.

>>161128859
His stats would become A+ or A++ rank at most since EX doesn't mean it's stronger than A, it means it's incalculable can be anywhere from E to A depending on the situation.

>>161126733
cute

>>161133587
>Germans know Arthur better than japs
Hah, fuck no. Still waiting for proofs mate.

>>161133413
He didn't respect Kirei. He thought Kirei was interesting, like a school project, but also thought he was lower than trash.

Gilgamesh likes earnest, hardworking people who reach for their desires with all their might. A degree of selfishness is necessary, because he believes being selfish is the right of humanity. A Master who respects Gilgamesh, but also has enough selfishness to covet him as the greatest and most powerful Servant is ideal.

Earnest effort should be rewarded. Reaching for one's desires without hesitation is admirable. And even if the entire world should spit on such a person and repeatedly attempt to destroy their hopes, how could he possibly ignore them? For he is humanity's oldest King of Heroes. The gods may spurn you, the world may curse you, but if you can withstand that and still crawl fruitlessly towards your desires no matter how pathetic you may turn out, that King alone shall reach his hand out towards you.

Rejoice, lowly Master. The King of Heroes shall become your sword and shield.

>>161133586
>not high up your own ass
>yet respectful and to know your place
It's a fine line. He also appreciates Tine for some reason, in F/SF.

>>161126370
>>161126498
Expanding upon this response:

In Strange Fake, once a certain participant of the Grail War learns that AHeracles is a hostile participating Servant, he immediately calls for a Hydra Venom dagger to be brought to him.
Just because very few people tend to be proactive does not mean that they *cannot* be proactive.

>>161133587
Why not just summon her in fucking ENGLAND then?

>>161126733
Huh. You share my birth date.

>>161125095
RIP in pieces, my sides

>GoB candy
I-I want s-some, too.

>>161124107
>"serious threat"
>loses fight to Ilyasviel

>>161133726
>earnest, hardworking people who reach for their desires with all their might.
So why did he hate Tokiomi?

>>161133930
Tokiomi groveled too much.

>>161133930
He didn't, Tokiomi just cramped his style and was planning to betray him.

>>161134014
Tine does in SF as well and he likes her.
He also gets mad when people don't act with a degree of servility in his presence.
>>161134019
>He didn't
He kept shit talking him and being annoyed every time Tokiomi told him something.

>>161125241
Because any time he spends doing that is time not spent trying to time paradox himself out of existence?

>>161125562
I feel like you aren't actually familiar with any of the material.

>>161122942
>Archer
100% straight, would never fuck a man.
>your bro Gil
Fucked Enkidu, wanted to fuck Kotomine, massive slut who can't count the number of dicks he has taken.

>>161133930
Tokiomi was a petty man whose groveling was all just for show. His respect for shallow, only so that Gil would obey him.

Respect must be genuine.

Incidentally, Gil also values honesty. Someone who can be up-front with him without holding back is refreshing to him. Hence why even though Andersen told him exactly what he thought of him, Gil didn't skewer him on the spot.

>>161134258
>Andersen :: Though my tongue may be cut out where I stand, as I have been asked, I will speak my estimation of you without reservation! To start at the conclusion, you don't qualify as a Servant! I can't give you a single point! And as a Heroic Spirit? That doesn't bear discussion! No matter what records you consult, Gilgamesh was a ruffian that brought suffering to his country and his people. Calling you a king of men would make me laugh. A fool who united heaven and earth, ruling over men without governing his country. A King of Heroes is just that, and not to be called a king of men even by accident. That principle of kingship is simply to reign. You establish yourself as a king, but that state is nothing but a storm with will. First you destroy. And after that you cannot even promise a good harvest. And in that sad state you gather the riches your subjects produce. Greed. Cruelty. And conceit. Those three things raised to their ultimate form and then made into one — that's what you are.
>So, so close, I can't listen to this...! Gilgamesh holds his imposing stance just as it is, not so much as twitching, looking on as Andersen slings abuse at him. I wouldn't be surprised if he killed him right now, with that –
>Gilgamesh :: —–.
>— refreshed, expression...?

>>161134290
>Anderson :: Serfs raise their crops, kings raise their countries. But you didn't even raise a country. You did at all nothing but kill and pursue your self-satisfaction. Your nation, your followers, your legend, none of it continues after you. The only thing remaining to you is yourself. Is this contract, too, nothing but an amusement to distract you from your boredom? An adjudicator who enjoys human emotions without understanding them. That is your true nature, Gilgamesh. Hakuno Kishinami. Don't think you'll come to understand this man. You should act as his Master and nothing else. All right! Feel free to take my life now! I have said what I wanted to say!
>Gilgamesh :: Heh. I have no need for your life. It is utterly insignificant. That was not an estimation of value, in any case. It is a story you have written. If your tale portrays the king, it will find room in some corner of my library.
>Andersen :: Well, that's good, I didn't fancy dying here right — wait. You recognize its worth? Then pay the fee! Will the famous golden king really just listen and be done with it!?
>Gilgamesh :: There's nothing for it. When offset by such vilification, this is the assessed value of your work. If you want payment, reassess next time, mongrel. Though you a literary master with a twisted nature, after all...
>A malicious grin crosses Gilgamesh's face. ...these two may actually get along better than expected...

>>161129397
Jo
Jo

How many years are we going to debate Redman vs Gil? How many years are we going to use the Shiro fight as an example even though Gil wasn't even wearing his armor through that fight? EMIYA would not be afforded the same luxuries that Shiro received.

>>161134696
EMIYA wank will never end. It is eternal just like his job as a janitor.

>>161129197
>NINE LIVES bladeworks
>only killed once

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>>161134816
Everyone will always be gay for GARcher

>>161134322
Andersen's from Extra? Didn't know that. Just kinda assumed he was exclusive to GO, thus far.

Serious question: What made DEEN/Stay Night bad? How did it fail in its adaptation of the Fate route?

>>161135414
The inclusion of bondage Sakura.

>>161135414
It was very well-received by /a/ when it first aired. Its reputation has fallen since then.

>>161126049
Archer copies all of Gil's weapons, ironically not just faking Gil's pride and joy but also faking what Enkidu can do way better than EMIYA can (Enkidu produces 100% perfect replicas of all weapons he sees, EMIYA's are ranked down)

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>>161135492
>well-received by /a/
/a/ enjoying anime?

>>161127328
Are people actually using the fighting against Iskander, where he does LITERALLY DOES ONE THING, as an basis of Gilgamesh's power? That was an exception, not an example

>>161135414
Dumb additions like bondage Sakura and QUALITY aside, it was boring. Seriously, I read Fate just after finishing the DEEN anime and I had fun despite already knowing everything that happened from watching the anime.

>>161135414
It fell for a common trap of LN adaptations at the time in that it tried to merge multiple routes together. Adaptations did this to give a better general representation of the highlights of the source material (since they served as ads for the source), but the result was almost always a borderline incoherent mess with nonsensical pacing. That's exactly what Deen's FSN adaptation suffered from.

Plus the source material moves at a glacial pace and spends a great deal of time fixated on the aesthetic of it's split-city at night and Shirou's plodding, ponderous thought process. The adaptation shifted gears to a fast paced action show, but still included scenes that then had no place in a fast-paced action show. Fans of the VN were disappointed that it was so different. Fans of the tv anime were disappointed the VN was so different. That sort of misalignment of expectation is a hallmark of a poor adaptation.

>>161132988
Because Deen was shit and they haven't seen HF yet to waifu the most worst choice yet.

>>161133281
HF is arguable since he seems content that Shirou won't follow in his footsteps, though I still suspect that EMIYA's timeline was the superhero badend. He seemed happy-ish at the end of UBW as well.

Have you rejoiced today lads?

>>161131010
He has clairvoyance which makes him eligible for grand caster but merlin is a grand so Gil can't take his spot.

>>161136109
Merlin isn't a Grand Servant; he's not dead.

>>161133586
>To not be too high up your own ass.
>>161133726
>Gilgamesh likes earnest, hardworking people who reach for their desires with all their might.

Shirou summons Gilgamesh. What happens?

Is there any way to even make a good F/SN adaptation?

>>161136149
Gilgamesh calls him a faker with a borrowed ideal.
Shirou's desire is a misguided attempt to achieve somebody else's ideal.

>>161136174
Competent staff.

>>161136174
Hardly, FSN can only be enjoyed fully as a VN

>>161136149
Shirou doesn't work. Shirou wants nothing for himself. He's the antithesis of what Gilgamesh values in man.

>>161136249
But at the beginning of the HGW Shirou has already long given up on projection, making him not a faker.

>>161136174
No.
You need to know Shirou's thoughts to understand him properly.
Look at all the animeonly idiots who think Shirou is a generic moralfag self-insert.

What would have happened in the fifth war if Kotomine instead somehow summoned Emiya and Rin summoned Lancer? Could Cu win it?

>>161136421
Gilgamesh is still alive.

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genderswapped gil when

im rusty on my fate lore but isn't he like omniscient from seeing the entire worlds future and chose to not keep immortality because life was boring

so any time he loses he meant to lose

>>161136481
So? EMIYA is still there to make him job.

>>161136516
>What would have happened in the fifth war if Kotomine instead somehow summoned Emiya and Rin summoned Lancer? Could Cu win it?

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what would have happened in zero if kiritsugu got Gilgamesh

>>161136500
would literally spend 500$ on FGO if it ever happens.

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>>161135281
I fixed the white smidge near the bottom left of his coat. Sorry about that

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>>161135696
>not being here watching EP13-14
From the way the Redman started chanting to that smug look he gave to bersercah was glorious.

Never have we seen so much GAR

>>161136631
>Implying EMIYA won't just backstab Kotomine and UBW Gilgamesh because fuck you two I'm only here to kill myself and I have independant action

>>161136677
Gilgamesh spends the first 5 minutes after he is summoned laughing at Kiritsugu.
It's a coin flip after that.

>>161136500
He chose to forego immortality because 命とは終わるもの。

>>161136849
I was thinking kiritsugu would probably come up with some pretty nasty uses for gate/ea with the command seals...

>>161131690

The whole 'servants outside time learn things' never made much sense. Emiya is way after the 'now' of most fate series, so no one living can normally identify him. But even after that Shirou dies way before taking on Emiya as name when a CG. But then CG/Heroic Spirits knowledge bounces around because 'lol outside time, but didn't read every report/volume from their summoned clone'. It's just random contrivance of what they know each time a copy is summoned. Can they draw on knowledge from different timelines?

>>161136143
Merlin is also a lazy ass NEET who rather shitpost online and pretend to be a girl, so we might as well make Caster Gil Grand Caster

>>161133741
Einzbern intelligence strikes again!

>>161136908
The moment he tries to order Gil to pull out Ea is the moment he dies.

>>161137286
can gil actually disobey like this?

Wasn't he forced around by rins dad with a command seal

If Richard the Lionheart touched Excalibur would that turn it into double excalibur?

>>161137316
That only happened in the anime. The novel doesn't say that Tokiomi used a Command Seal.
Even then, compare it to any other time a CS has been used to order a Servant to do something they don't want to do. They either resist for a few moments or they immediately do it against their will. Gil on the other hand basically turned around and went "u serious bro?" without any signs of pressure.

>>161137493
Yes.

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>>161137495
Trying to command Gil to do something he deems beneath him is a surefire way to get yourself killed.

>>161137495
>The novel doesn't say that Tokiomi used a Command Seal.
It explicitly states that he uses a command seal because it becomes a plot point later in the story that he used a command seal, hence the reward for one of killing caster, and Kayneth killing Risei after getting his.

>>161137599
Nice job leaving out the rest. Now actually post where it explicitly says Tokiomi used one.

>>161137638
No, the point was that having an extra CS would be an advantage. Masters aren't limited to just 3 after all.

>>161136082
It's been confirmed already that Archer's timeline was essentially the Fate route except Shirou didn't save Saber.

>>161136109
Not really , Solomon is a grand, and merlin is a grand caster candidate, same way caster gil is, but since Merlin aint quite dead yet to enter the throne of heros gil is next in line.

>>161133117
>all that bullshit in his UBW animation
I love how fucking crazy lunar redman gets, but it really sucks that regular Emiya can't get ever get to that level.

Goldie and Redman were made for homolust, not war.

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>>161138585
the MOONCELL makes him competent enough to make him compete.

Here's something i've always wondered, after Shirou takes Gil's arm off How does He trace Ea into His own hands?

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>>161136500
Gilko a cute!

>>161138585
Moon Cell actually boosts his abilities in a variety of ways. He can even forge holy swords, albeit severely degraded.

>>161139399
He can't?

>>161136872
Non-moonrunes, please.

>>161124949
To be fair, he wouldn't go all out against Saber because she was his prize and he didn't want to destroy her. He never stood a chance in the first place, as the use of Avalon was only delayed for dramatic effect. A serious Saber would have used ti immediately and cut him down before any words were exchanged.

>>161138042
Fuck it's been so long since I played. Save her from which event? The Gilgimesh ambush at the bridge?

>>161141717
The same reason that Roman chooses to not be immortal. I was quoting Roman's iconic scene.

>>161134974
>Unlimited blade works
>Limited by the amount of mana the user can sustain for the RM
EVERYTHING IS A GODDAMN CONTRADICTION IN THIS SERIES

>>161141719
She can't attack while protected by Avalon. That was the whole point of keeping it hidden until the last moment to land a decisive strike against him.

>>161142396
But the RM holds an infinite number of blades.

>>161126049
THOSE SWORDS ARE FUCKING PATENTED

>>161133281
Shoulda checked a dictionary on what "infinity" meant before he made that deal.

>>161136174
Six cour epic with Shirou breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience on his thoughts.

Cu Chulainn is the strongest

There is not a single Servant in the entire Nasuverse that mundane Taiga couldn't beat under the right circumstances.

>>161142539
Well, no. The blades themselves are limited to what Emiya has seen and recorded. If a specific sword is broken, then Emiya has to pay a greater mana cost in order to reforge it.

>>161142849
Shut up because I kinda want this now (well, not for six cours, but I think it would be a fun idea).

>>161127089
Remember the threads we had about Lancelot before /Zero came out?
I think we came to a conclusion that Lancelot holding a black hole in one hand and Shiki by the ankles in the other would be undefeatable.

>>161126370
>giles not super weak to JANNU
>cu can literally be weakened with dog meat
>hercules and medusa's identities make their NPs easier to understand

>>161143172
This ain't China. You ain't gonna find dog meat that easily. Unless you kill one yourself. You monster.

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>>161136500
Best version right here.

>>161124417
HA EMIYA wasn't serious. That was minimal effort required EMIYA.

The funny thing is that GIl's legend has him and Enkidu using some insanely heavy weapons to kill Humbaba or whatever that divine beast's name was, and Gil could just take it out and slap Shirou away with one hit.

>>161143798
What did they use? Big-ass polearms or something?

>>161143798
No he can't. That'd leave too big an opening for Shirou to skewer him with swords.

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>>161124107
>Gilfags are THIS retarded
He couldn't beat Saber, and he couldn't even defeat her boyfriend.

>>161124107
Except ARTURIA

>>161143828
One of them was a massive axe or sword i think.

>>161143881
Nothing stops gil from shooting GOB while he holds a sword in his hand and kills shirou in one hit. Blocking a massive weapon which he used to kill a divine beast would have sent Shirou flying at best.

>>161144057
Shirou's swordrain can counter Gil's. That's why it boiled down to a melee fight. There were swords flying everywhere during their fight. Whenever Gil shot his swords, Shirou countered with his own, negating the swordspam completely.

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>>161144057
I kinda really wanna see Gil physically carrying around and using Herc's rock-sword now.

Did anyone bring up that, just because Gilgamesh has a bunch of NPs, it doesn't mean he knows how to use them?

>>161133281
Mooncell gives him a happy ending even if he has to play Nero's bitch.

>>161144083
how was it a melee fight when Gil didnt even have any melee weapons in his hand? Plus, with servant tier stats, he could have easily beaten Shirou in a melee fight.

>>161126370
What the fuck is Cu's weakness then? Feed him dog and you literally win. That's a weakness.

>>161144189
It was melee fight. If Shirou went on a range pissing contest, he'd lose because Gil can think. Gil had melee weapons, but can't use hard counter shit since Shirou just smashes the sword in melee as well.

>>161144228
His bad luck because he's a lancer.

>>161144262
why didnt gil just uses a weapon that was too large/heavy for shirou to wield? Then shirou cant use a copy to smash it.

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>>161144189
He did?

And stats aren't the issue. The problem is the Noble Phantasms themselves. Due to UBW's superior weapon draw speed, Shirou always had his weapons ready before Gilgamesh did. By the time Gil had his weapon completely out, Shirou was already swinging a blade at him. It doesn't matter what your stats are; if you get hit by a Noble Phantasm in the face, you're going to die. So Gilgamesh had to defend himself with his own weapon, shattering both. Then the same thing just keeps happening. As long as UBW is up, Gilgamesh is at a disadvantage because he's constantly on the defensive.

>>161144180
Literally what. He can bring out any random NP and use it just fine.
His super clairvoyance also means that on the off chance that he doesn't know, all he has to do is look at it and then he knows what it does.

>>161134169
Gil only gives dicks, he doesn't receive theme. So that makes him NOT GAY.

>>161127485
Shirou was able to beat Gilgamesh because by that time, he had already absorbed a lot of EMIYA's ability anyway. The UFO anime literally tells you this, it can't be made any clearly. Shirou and EMIYA's battle boosted Shirou to extremely high levels. But not nearly as much as Miyu!Shirou installing his future self in Prisma Illya

>>161144387
Gil's a retard. He wanted to prove his originals>shitty copy.

Problem is passive bonus that Shirou gets when using said NP. If Gil draws a famous great sword, let's say Balmung, Shirou draws same shit smashes it with the same intensity as suminai smashing it to Gil.