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Altima of the Gates
Lots of things will be interesting to see in the next movie. I always raised an eyebrow when Rin said that Sakura's powers were so simple when they had such variation when she you know, actually got to use them. So it'll be interesting to see what people think of that line, but most of the stuff that she says in HF that is basically, "you can't have her help since she can't function as a magus" was cut, but there were also the magecraft talk Sakura had with Shirou was mostly cut, or how she says she cannot heal the damage from Archer's arm with her powers and suggested chatting with Rider for a solution (which come on Nasu, you should have worked that angle more if you bothered to put the line in).
Given Sudou is showing more of what Nasu implied with her powers (the long reach of her shadow, the spears, how it shows the Shadow itself taking mana in *with audible almost gulping effect, nice touch Sudou* as it sucked it from the air before the explosion, familiar puppet usage that you might as well just say she makes her own ghost pokemon), not even getting into the shadow walking or that she can inhabit those familiars to make an effective clone from someone whose training was anything but, and only got some juice, not the manual to use it. It would be odd that Rin thinks of that as lesser than a repertoire of jewel grenades, shields, and Gandr. By the end of this movie, if it overturns the "Sakura doesn't know anything and can't do anything with magecraft" stuff that pervades the fandom even a little, I'd be happy.
^That would have to be an original line, since the most she remembered about Gil was what the Grail told her that the possession went to Kirei since it couldn't assimilate Gil.
It was Herc in the next part of the scene that hurts her because his soul is cramping hers and she wasn't made to go into automatic shutdown after a certain amount of spirits like Ilya and Iri.