Saber from FSN sucks and the worf effect is hugely prevalent in fate.

Or are you saying that any of these characters could have beaten Saber with full power Excalibur had they also been at full power?

the opposite saber should not even need excallibur blast to beat any of them since most of them are weakened in some way,shape or form.

against assassin she had surperior power and reflexes thanks to instinct and her blade could cut though kojiro's blade like butter since sasaki's blade is not an np and she still lost.

same goes with kazuki since he is just a regular human enhanced by caster magic and even with that enhancement saber is significantly superior to him in every shape and form and should be more than capable to one shot him Excalibur or not even if she is caught off gaurd

hf shirou is even worse since unlike in ubw salter is not weakened at best she is worse at dodging but better at everything else fighting a teenager with archer's arm who being a caster in archer class is horrible in close combat and shirou should be worse than archer and also suffering through brain damage and also limited to 3 projection if not lesser while also already sustaining injuries from her and still was able to hold back against saber and draw against her when in reality shirou should be dead the moment the battle start without even needing excallibur blast.

against rider in hf she aside from agility is better at everything else and even with shirou's "support" rider merely matched excallibur and salter did not sustain much damage aside from knowckback.hell she sustained more damage against shirou's triple crane since that completely destroyed all her internal organs and she still survived that.the moment shirou would have approached salter,salter should have killed shirou right then and there.

even in her weakened state she really does not have businesses losing a lot of battle she loses aside from poor writing or plot contrivances since the enemies she faces are them self really weak compared to her like fake assassin,kazuki,hf shirou,rider etc........

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