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I'm sure this has been asked over a thousand times, but how was Shirou able to beat Gil at the end of UBW?
I get that Gil isn't that great at hand-to-hand combat, having never mastered a single weapon. But he's still a servant, shouldn't he be an order of magnitude stronger and faster than Shirou? It's not like Shirou is some master swordsman either. Is Gil really so unskilled in close quarters combat that a few days training with Saber and copying Archer's fighting style is enough to overcome the vast difference in physical attributes?