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1) Regarding the whole "piercing Rho Aias".....Gae Bolg was literally the first time Archer saw a weapon going beyond the 1st layer. Which says a lot about the shield.

2) They're not really that comparable to real NPs, Sentry. The projections are 1-rank lower, thus weaker in every sense, than the original. They are only as strong as the original when Archer uses them as Broken Phantasms....and when he does that, he blows them up.

3) Gae Bolg is less destructive than you think and more destructive than it looks. When thrown it can grow extra heads to hit multiple targets, including armies, but that's not something Lancer ever does in F/SN or F/Extra.

4) Gilgamesh literally refuses to use more than 13% of his power at the very most, and he only ever uses that much at like one or two points in all of F/SN. For the most part he just overwhelms the enemy with GoB, and considering each of the weapons in it is either a legendary weapon or the prototype of one, that's all he needs against most Servants.

His Ea could legit destroy the world if he felt like it, but his ego means he thinks he never needs to go to such lengths to deal with mongrels. In fact, Gilgamesh is even able to teleport to another freaking planet if he feels like it. In fact, he does just that in Extra CCC.