[Altima of the Gates]

Originally Posted by Blade_Lord

A fool who cannot defeat even a weakened version of the servant with his own power(I mean his own power not archer's)...precisely the reason why I prefer Shirou in UBW route than HF route, I mean come on he's against a full strength King of Heroes.

Spoiler for HF True Ending:

I prefer the Normal Ending instead of HF True Ending. Shirou actually sacrifice Illya just so he can keep on living. Man, I rather die than let someone else die for my sake....well that's my opinion anyway. I dunno about you guys.

HEH?!!

1.) In this route, he barely got time enough to understand his own power, and besides, his mind is basically shattering every time he uses it, so its not really even beneficial in the fact that its turning him into a living corpse and a vegetable. Plus, in UBW, and I'm not saying Shirou wasn't good, but the ONLY reason that he won was because Gilgamesh was incredibly overconfident to the point of blind arrogance and continued to try to prove his swords were superior to Shirou's. It wasn't even about killing Shirou anymore, it was about his injured pride. Also, you mentioned how Shirou was fighting a weakened Berserker and not using his own powers? Hello? Was he ever taught the route of his powers before he got Archer's arm in this route? No. So he used what he could at the time. Besides, even though he was blind and weakened(weakened as his purity as a demigod was weakened since he was tainted and some stats went down), he was still as physically powerful as he always was and Shirou was fighting him HEAD ON, destroying what little advantage he had over Berserker, no eyesight.
Say what you want, he was at a huge disadvantage and used what he had to, hell, even that wasn't enough and he STILL needed one more blow to kill him.

2.)

Spoiler for Ending:

Shirou never asked Ilya to do that. He didn't have a mind enough to ask, and didn't even know she was there or that it was her immediately cause his brains were going to crap at the time. When he realized who it was and what she was trying to do, he begged her to stop, but it was entirely her decision. She thought, "Hey, if I'm going to die anyway soon enough, I might as well save him at least." Blaming Shirou for that when he also would have preferred to die instead totally ruins the tenderness of that scene and the bond that grew between them.