[Sunder the Gold]

Originally Posted by bhl88

Wonder what's the difference between the Nanoha and Fate rankings.... EX would probably be SS+...

No.

EX Rank means "This class of power is unmeasurable; effectively infinite."

There is no possible means of penetrating Avalon, and nothing short of Avalon can resist being utterly destroyed by Ea's attack... assuming you're putting enough power into it, rather than deliberately holding back like Gilgamesh did.

The only things that might qualify for EX Rank in the Nanohaverse are the Jewel Seeds and the Book of Darkness. And that would be a composite rank that measured their overall potency, rather than anything as specific as "defense" or "attack".

The Saint's Cradle would not qualify for an EX Rank in any category, nor as a composite whole.

or A++ Excalibur vs S Starlight Breaker

Excalibur has the power to destroy a city like a nuclear bomb... But that's why it's labeled an Anti-Fortress attack. That's not why it's A++ Ranked.

The Nasuverse cosmology includes the concept of Mystery which works a bit like Priority in fighting games.

A creature who is inherently magical enough (as as a Servant) would be completely immune to a nuclear explosion, because such newfangled technology has no "mystery".

Excalibur's A++ mystery (as a sword made by nature spirits from the dreams of legends of all other magical swords) enhances its pure physical damaging power, so that the weapon's special magical attack can "interrupt" any force with less mystery.

Rin Tohsaka had gemstones containing elemental spells capable of destroying entire houses in one explosion. One of these spellstones was powerful enough to penetrate Berserker's protective blessing and blow his head clean off.

Against Saber's Magical Resistance, such a gemstone shattered and fizzled into nothing, with absolutely no effect.

Saber's A-Ranked Magical Resistance would make her completely immune to any attack or binding or decrease-type spell that the Nanohaverse could throw at her.

Berserker is immune to any damage below a certain threshold or level of mystery. He CAN be hurt and even killed by attacks of sufficient mystery so long as they can exceed that threshold of immunity...

But if, after dying, he is allowed enough time to regenerate after being killed, the attack or spell that killed him becomes completely useless against him. And he has 11 spare lives... that regenerate over time.

As for Archer vs Signum

You know, I was going to talk about this, but I decided against it.

There are simply too many factors to take into consideration, such as terrain, time, motivation, weather, information, misinformation...

Suffice it to say that both of them are very real threats to each other.