Kaimax wrote...
None of the Servants of Fate/Zero are "basically" stronger than the Servants of Fate/Stay Nights
I maintain that this is a lie. First of all, I think F/SN is so full of bullshit that a straight up comparison is almost impossible.
A trained mercenary who is also an excellent magus is stronger, or a total noob that never did undergo any particularly amazing physical training and just happened to land on an awesome magecraft that, it is important to note, has little to do with his physical prowess?
I think it is no-brainer to say that Kiritsugu is stronger. And yet, Kiritsugu admitted clearly that him and another trained mercenary aren't able to defeat a weak servant. There are also other instant where a servant completely destroys his chance of victory merely by swinging his weapon (I wont reveal due to avoid spoiling). And Shirou lasted through the barrage of Gate of Babylon without any physical scratch whatsoever. Okay, he might have the projection to copy the weapons, but just where did he get the reflexes to timely respond to all of them? How come Assassin couldn't even notice the first strike coming when him, a servant, a particularly agile one to boot, when Shirou successfully lasted through a barrage of those?
Shirou also survived a head-on blow from Ea. Oh god, if that's not the god of main characters hugely nerfing Ea, I don't know what it is.
We can get into other examples, but I believe the one I mentioned above already showed how F/SN is too MC protective for a decent comparison.
Also, sincere opinion. As long as we don't have any servant with weapon of mass destruction like Ea running around in the war, Rider can seriously curbstomp 6 servants at once. *_*