well dat settles dat. i've been hearing arguments back and forth about that for a while since the fight was leaked, but riddle solved
Is a hell of a defense, but who cares when you can spam, and spam and spam some more.
This also works because God Hand works like 11 HP bars instead of 11 actual lives.
It also explains why the fight got more explosive as it went on. Saber started off "small" by simply bisecting Herk. Then the excaliblasts escalated until the really big one.
burn your dread you coward
Weaker then in Fate, where he was beaten by a half dead Saber wielding a dollar-store-knock-off of a worse sword then her normal one?
Herk: I thought I had 11 resurrections, not a huge life bar that can be depleted by one big hit
Nasu: I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further
Herk: This deal is getting worse all the time
Nasu: Furthermore, now you only get "add resistance" instead of "nullify damage"
Herk: This was never a condition in our...
Nasu: I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it any further
And that's why it is first in the list of alterations
After that is "now you can be wounded by Saber's attacks with her sword" in UBW
if I remember correctly, the sword wasn't able to hit him in the Fate route when he was grabbing Rin
She never did any sort of damage to him in the VN, there was just Shirou narrating about how Saber could get her chance to win (even when he didn't know about how God Hand work at that moment). And when she tried to hit him directly in the Fate route, she couldn't bypass that protection
Actually shirou worked out significant details of the godhand after watching archer’s attacks be nullified. An easy to miss moment occurs when shirou realizes that a law of immortality is protecting berserker from harm after archer’s arrows prove innefective.
This does not occur in the fate route as archer was not present in the fight. This is one of those times where shirou is able to intuit significant details many other people miss, such as when he seduced Gil’s identity earning what passes for a compliment from the king of heroes.
EDIT: also, it’s not “a chance to win”. Both shirou and rin are confident berserker can’t beat her now.
That was Shirou's Caliburn
When Saber tried to attack him:
I run.
I forget who I'm against or where I am.
My mind has already burned up.
"Stop…!!"
Saber slashes at Berserker.
The invisible sword is swung at Berserker's defenseless arm as if chopping a vegetable.
But it has no effect.
The sword bounces back. Not only does it not hurt Berserker's arm, but it does not even loosen Berserker's grip on Tohsaka.
Here is the scene in question. Even shows an image of the arm chopped off.Oh sorry, I was thinking of the wrong person.