How is it possible for a human to beat a servant?

Just finished the VN.
Wasn't it established day one in Fate/Zero that a humans can't stand up to servants?

That's a sword

Nasu is a hack.

FSN predates Zero you fucking retard.

Nasu creates rules for the sole purpose of breaking them

You know that most "servants" are humans to begin with right? Shiro litterally cheats by getting the strengh of his future self that became a hero.

E rank stats are only like 10 times a normal human without magic.

Saber survived while Shirou became a vegetable, so she won. And Saber was going easy on Shirou since she didn't think he could threaten her. She was complacent and paid for it.

Why does Nasu like to pretend that Archer is a "mediocre" servant?
Yet he's able to project any NP to counter any servant plus he's able to nuke people with broken NPs.

He still won the fight though, Seibah herself said so.

Does she count as human?

>Wasn't it established day one in Fate/Zero that a humans can't stand up to servants?

She said she won.

He doesn't want Shirou to be a mary sue.
Funny how in Fate/GO he tries to downplay Archer so hard.

>Believing Urobutcher's schlock
I can't believe they got that shitter to cover the Tsukihime Remake. TM is fucking dead and buried.

He's versatile but has shit stats. His weapons require a lot of mana to be produced, are inferior to proper Noble Phantasms and he can't use them as well as other heroic spirits can use their own. And unless he's prepared and has a plan he can go down like a chump.

The whole point of archer/shirou was to be a one trick pony. That is to say, to be very good for specific circumstances but little else. It takes a lot of noodling to keep that up while still having MC not just get str8 up murdered, so we can say the execution was not particularly good.

Saber was going easy on him. She didn't even use Excaliblast (she did if you brought Rider).

She "won" because there's no one help Rin in the next 10 min after she heals.
She didn't win the fight itself though.

Saber won because Shirou was brain dead and she'd regenerate in a few minutes. Shirou managed to injure her, but in exchange he self-destructed.

But Shirou's objective was to keep Saber from helping Sakura, so he did succeed in that.

Counter Guardian Archer > Any Servant

All heroic spirits are much more powerful when they aren't summoned as Servants. Servants are just a pale reflection of the original so that means nothing.

And then he ran into Kiara.

And there's some proper strategic theory right there: a fight is only its goals, and achievement of those goals is the determination of a fight. Napoleon may win Borodino, but it is Kuznetsov who wins the war.

I like Shirou Negro in concept, but his FGO artwork is pretty bad. Fan art does him justice by at least making his face resemble EMIYA

>Then Muramasa shows up and everyone is confused even further