Saber | King Arthur in Remnant

Artoria Pendragon. Class Name Saber, is one of the three main heroines of Fate/stay night and a major character of Fate/Zero.

She is the Saber-class Servant of Kiritsugu Emiya in the Fourth Fuyuki Holy Grail War and Shirou Emiya in the Fifth Fuyuki Holy Grail War. In the Unlimited Blade Works route, her contract with Shirou is broken by Medea and later becomes the Servant of Rin Tohsaka. In the Heaven's Feel route, her contract with Shirou is broken by the Black Shadow and transformed into the Servant of Sakura Matou as Saber Alter.

She is the Servant of Norma Goodfellow in the Labyrinth Holy Grail War of Fate/Labyrinth.

She is one of the Heroic Spirits of Ritsuka Fujimaru of the Grand Orders conflicts of Fate/Grand Order, summoned not as a Servant but as a special kind of Guardian.

Better known as Arthur Pendragon and King Arthur, who is regarded as a male in history, she is the "Once and Future King" and a legendary hero of Britain known as the King of Knights. She wielded the sword from the stone, Caliburn, but it was eventually destroyed. She later obtained Excalibur and Avalon from the Lady of the Lake.

While Arthur is a hero well known as a model for knights, it is said that he actually existed as "Dux Bellorum", the leader of War, and was a great general who led the twelve kings of Northern England, Gododdin, while preventing foreign invasion from forces such as the Scottish and the Picts.

This identity of the real great leader behind the legend of King Arthur has many variations, and it is thought that there may have been two people who fit the description of the king. One is the full Briton Arthur, while the other is the Roman Artorius, and their two separate sets of accomplishments are said to have merged into the legend of King Arthur that is known in the present time.

Artoria has the appearance of a young girl in her mid teens with a slender and petite physique, soft skin, and green eyes. She has "finely textured" blonde hair that seems "as if sprinkled with gold dust". Her face shows some signs of naivety and displays elegance. She is more muscular than someone like Rin, leading her to believe her body is unappealing, but Shirou believes her to be very feminine. She normally wears shining armor with an old styled dress, made from old-fashioned blue cloth, underneath. She is actually older than her appearance would show, as her body did not age from the moment she pulled Caliburn from the stone to the time of her death. Shirou sees her as being a few years younger, and the age of her body is probably a year younger than him. Though she lived as a man most of her life, Shirou and Rin describe her as beautiful instantly upon seeing her. Despite her armor being unrefined and unaesthetic, Shirou describes Artoria as being beautiful enough to make the steel clanking of her armor seem like the chiming of a bell.

Due to her inability to dematerialize, she needs to wear modern clothing in order to travel in public. Though she can wear her own dress when not in battle, she needs modern clothing to keep from standing out. With the ability to control the materialization of her armor, she can be ready for battle instantly and return to normal without damaging the clothing. During the Fourth Holy Grail War, Irisviel decides to match Artoria's clothing with her own appearance by dressing her as a man. During the Fifth Holy Grail War, Rin Tohsaka prepares clothes for Artoria, a blue, knee-length skirt (with tights) and white shirt (with a blue string tie), and brown boots originally a birthday present to Rin from Kirei Kotomine. After being captured by Medea she is forced to wear a white ballgown with her hair being strapped in a ponytail, a white collar in her neck, and white gloves in both of her arms.

Artoria is a strong-willed young woman who usually speaks truthfully but will lie if necessary. She is courageous, determined, and set on winning the Holy Grail. She constantly insists that she is a knight and king above all, and that her gender is of little importance to her and her role. She is resolute in following her own morals, regardless of the more viable, yet underhand, tactics being available. Artoria prefers direct, fair confrontations based upon codes of chivalry. Not even her hunger for the Holy Grail can make her abandon her code of honor. This leads to regular conflicts with Kiritsugu over strategy within the Fourth Holy Grail War. While obtaining the Grail is of the utmost importance, rejecting her chivalry is something she will never do, even if it should put her at a disadvantage. If such came to pass, she would require her Master to use a Command Spell as recompense for treading upon her heart. A Master tends to do well with Artoria when they respect her rules, such as Irisviel being closer to her than her true Master, Kiritsugu.

She believes loyalty and respect should be shared between Master and Servant. Thus when a Servant kills their Master, Artoria is enraged to the point she may kill as punishment. If a Servant dies protecting their Master, she protects their sacrifice from ridicule, believing they died honorably. She also expects Heroic Spirit to be treated with respect, displaying utter rage and disgust when Zouken Matou turns Medea's corpse into a puppet or when Shinji electrocutes Rider as punishment for losing in battle to Artoria herself. If a situation looks dire, Artoria will not hesitant to sacrifice herself to ensure her Master and companions can escape.

A firm believer in justice, Artoria cannot stand when evil goes unpunished. She therefore strongly rejected Kiritsugu's decision to let the other Masters kill Gilles de Rais, as she wanted to stop Gilles as soon as possible before more innocent victims were made. Seeing humans reduced to demons who commit countless atrocities when their lives are threatened was something she witnessed all the time in her life. But precisely because of that, humans need to prove they can still live on with dignity no matter the difficulties that surround them. A knight is the one who can testify to that. Illuminating the battlefield by inspiring awe with his justice, a knight lets those reduced to demons to regain their honor and pride, and become proper humans once more. It is therefore the duty of a knight to put aside their feelings to focus on the greater good.

One of Artoria's greatest struggles throughout the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars is her identity as both a "human" and a "king". Because of her status as a knight and a Servant, she dislikes being treated as a woman, or even as a human. She tries to keep the notion that she is only a Servant, a tool for her Master, first and foremost in her mind. Normally quiet and reserved, she raises her voice in defense of this non-human identity. This focus is so extreme that she has no obvious reaction to Shirou accidentally seeing her naked, possibly ignoring or not understanding his flustered response. She slowly becomes aware of herself though as her bonds with Shirou and Rin develop, later displaying her true embarrassment when Shirou again accidentally sees her naked. Despite being granted knowledge of the modern world upon being summoned, Artoria is a 'fish-out-of-water' in many social situations due to her strong disconnect from her humanity in her past and lack of interaction with others her age and social status. She was unaware of the innuendo of the phrase 'between my legs' and didn't understand why Irisviel was giggling afterwards. She also doesn't even understand what a date is, as the Grail doesn't give data on minor modern social structure and phrasing, until Rin explains it to her.

Due to always conducting herself as an untouchable king, she is unfamiliar with affection or flirting from others. She is notably sexually inexperienced as a woman, but she is nevertheless knowledgeable about a man's sexual experiences. Once Artoria becomes more self-aware of herself as a girl, she becomes very self-conscious of her body. She remarks it as "unsightly", and tries to stay out the center of attention. She is also more aware of others' physical appearance, envying the voluptuous Rider. Initially, she and Shirou view these experiences as being contradictory to her identity as king, causing strife between them, and internally for Artoria. Through careful self-exploration and support from others, Artoria realizes she can be happy as a woman while still being a king. She also accepts the failures of her past, deciding to stop punishing herself for it. This accumulates in Artoria accepting Shirou's love, and her declaration to herself and Gilgamesh that she will always be "a king before a woman". In Realta Nua, Artoria journeys to Avalon and lives as this person she wishes to be. In Fate/hollow ataraxia, Artoria acts to refine that womanhood and femininity among her peers, and Sakura and Taiga help her with this when they go shopping together. She can react violently when others point out her underdeveloped physique as a woman. Such was the case in Fate/hollow ataraxia when she relentlessly chased Lancer with the intent of beating him after he said she should develop more before wearing a two-piece swimsuit.

Artoria is loyal, independent, and reserved. She appears cold, but is usually suppressing her emotions to focus on her goals. She is bewildered by Shirou's "protective" tendencies, and believes his over-valuing of her humanity jeopardizes her chances of winning the Holy Grail War. However, Artoria is secretly deeply insecure, having no real sense of self-worth. As she was born and raised to be a king in service of her country, she has no sense of self-worth past that, and can only feel fulfilled by serving other people. Because of this, she will regularly berate herself as worthless if she ever fails in her duties. Shirou realizes from his dreams of her past that, even though she is a supremely skilled warrior, she would be happier if she didn't have to fight at all.

As king, Artoria put the needs of her people before her own and considers herself a martyr to her ideals. While primarily an idealist, she took a more pragmatic approach when ruling and protecting her people. She understood it was impossible to save everyone, so she would sacrifice a few to save the many. Throughout her rule, though, she was plagued by self-doubt about being a worthy king, and eventually came to hate herself for not giving her people utopia like she promised and the atrocious actions she took to ensure Britain's protection and future. She feels deep guilt over the eventual destruction of her kingdom, holding herself solely responsible and calling herself an inadequate ruler. When shown her death before pulling Caliburn, Artoria accepted she would die alone, ostracized by everyone for taking many lives. Even though she accepted that, she was horrified to know her kingdom would be destroyed alongside her in the bloody Battle of Camlann Hill. She understood, as Merlin told her, that Britain would fall, but she wanted to believe its end could be more peaceful, like a slumber. As a result of these factors, her wish for much of the Fourth and Fifth Holy Grail Wars is to undo her rule so that someone more suitable can take her place in order to give Britain a peaceful end. Iskandar and Shirou both chastise her for this, saying that to undo her rule would be an insult to all those who died in her name, or that she is selfish for wanting to redo the past merely because she didn't like the result. Also, because of her past, Artoria blames herself whenever her past enemies reappear.

For the most part, Artoria is a serious person who fully devotes herself to whatever task she's given. This can especially true when it comes to competition, since she's a sore loser, though truthfully her soreness is directed at her own weakness. Obstinate at her worst she can spend hours on a single task until she's satisfied, such as forcing Shirou and Rin to let her keep playing baseball because she was losing way past scheduled. Her poor sportsmanship is nothing compared to her fanatic devotion to her kingly duty though. Others find her devotion disturbing, seeing that she is denying herself of everything for the sake of her duty. She so stubbornly adheres to her duty that she ignores, rejects, and/or actively fights against other's opinions to validate herself. This is most obvious in her fights with Shirou about her past. This tendency to fight others that she disagrees with is compounded by how she is unable to ignore what others say or do. She cares greatly about others' opinions, and their disagreement hurts her greatly; her brother, Kay, compares her heart to a reed in that respect. If someone makes a transgression against her, Artoria is extremely ready to fight, even physically, anyone for that perceived insult. This most often includes Shirou in both serious and comical situations. Shirou implying that Artoria is a human, and not a Servant, is immediately cornered verbally by Artoria. At another time, Shirou is knocked unconscious for teasing her for playing with her lion plushy in Fate/hollow ataraxia.

Underneath her serious exterior that she feels forced to hold, Artoria shows herself to be a kind-hearted and gentle person who wishes to protect those she cares about. She is perceptive when it comes to the others' feelings and their troubles, almost dangerously so when combined with her low self-worth and habit to overthink. This is best demonstrated in a positive way when she purposely forfeited a competition of best little sister to Illya when she saw her frustration at losing by pretending to be overwhelmed by Illya's "sister force", even convincing Sakura (another competitor) to join her. Her ability to perceive others' troubles also made her reckless in her pursuit to save others during her training with Caliburn, for which she was scolded many times by Kay. Artoria greatly enjoys seeing the happiness of others, even though she doesn't wish any happiness for herself. This trait is a cause of great concern to those who care about her, thinking she should obtain her own happiness. Artoria herself believes she doesn't deserve happiness due to her self-perceived failure as king. She rarely smiles for herself but smiles for others upon seeing their happiness and safety. During her reign, she never laughed once, with the last time being during her training with Caliburn. She is still very capable of laughing, such as when she giggled at Shirou's joke about Rin wanting to use the Grail to rule the world. Her kind heart can also extend to her enemies, such not seeing the Saxons as evil despite being her enemies. Rather, she understood they sought Britain for a land to call home, believing their aspiration to be inherently good. During her younger days, Artoria loved to take care of horses, which surprised Kay when she used them in battle, despite her love for them. But, to her, a horse dying in battle is a different sin than a soldier dying, as a soldier knows why they're on the battlefield, while a horse does not. This kind-hearted facet of Artoria is seen as her true self for it is a person free from unhealthy, inhuman expectations - Shirou sees it as an Artoria who no longer needs to fight. When Artoria does not feel as though she needs to be inhumanly strong, she is less argumentative and confrontational, for these are traits she developed to make up for her inability to meet her impossible goals.

Though she once felt more linked to Dragons due to her unique birth, she came to enjoy lions after taking care of a lion cub for a month at some point in her life. She claims that it is not that she "likes" them, but rather the happiness she experienced as he became attached to her brought forth a bond with them. The lion cub in her past was very energetic, often biting or scratching, but she wished to be able to stay with him until the end. She has had feelings for lions since then and remembers these fond memories while holding stuffed lions. Shirou, seeing the memory of her rubbing her cheek against the lion, comments on it being a special time where she truly looks like a girl her age.

She is shown to have a voracious appetite, finishing large servings of rice within one minute. Although she can normally eat anything, Shirou's food education is what awoke her gourmet spirit. She originally did not appreciate modern food, as she doesn't actually need to eat as a Servant, and because she had believed that all food was simple. She had very bad experiences with the food in her time, due to being limited to meals like large quantities of potatoes, vinegar, bread, and ale, or even at times simply eating vegetables alone in times of need. She did not concern herself with food much in her life and allowed her cooks to do as they wished. She felt those dishes were unrefined, although she was not displeased by them. She shudders at the thought of eating the food of her era once introduced to Shirou's cooking. She thought it had been made to suit the tastes of the knights, because they acknowledged it as tasting good, but they simply were unable to say it was bad to the King's face. Gawain was an exception, and enjoyed the meals, not noticing the others' distaste for it.

Artoria Pendragon is the legendary King of Knights, the one that ruled over the battlefields in the age of legends. In life, she commanded the Knights of the Round Table, the greatest knights to ever live and heroes that would later be sung of in legends. If summoned as a Servant, any of them would boast indisputable fame and strength, however, even among them, Artoria stands at the top. Despite Mordred being a first-class servant and possessing power worthy of the Saber class, when comparing them to her father's, Mordred's specs are overall lower. Although Lancelot is famed as the strongest Knight of the Round Table mainly due to defeating Gawain after fighting him for several hours while empowered by the Sun until wounding him at nightfall, he considered a fact that the King was invincible, and that size and appearance could not change that. While he states that Morgan le Fay, a powerful witch that rivalled Merlin, was a ruler with immense power due to having retained the supernatural power thought to have died out with King Uther, he claims that she was still nothing but a small pebble in the path of the King.

As a Servant, Artoria is widely considered to be the strongest Heroic Spirit in the Saber class, the one considered the "Most Outstanding" among the seven classes due to its excellent ratings in all categories. Artoria doesn't fall short of that reputation. She is left very underpowered for the majority of the Fifth Holy Grail War due to Shirou's extremely bad aptitude and being unable to provide her with any Magical Energy due to his Magical Paths being obstructed. She is not able to achieve the power she had during life, so she cannot be said to have the abilities of the greatest servant in that state. She is stronger under Kiritsugu, but her luck is decreased since even he still could not provide sufficient Magical Energy, as a result, the status was affected by the Master's way of life. After she forms a proper contract with Rin, she displays her original abilities without being affected by the Master. Although she could barely keep up with Heracles using all of her strength while weakened, it was widely considered by Rin, EMIYA, Medea, and Illya that if she were at full power, she'd be the strongest servant in the Fifth Holy Grail War, and that only Heracles would be able to match her. It is only after seeing Gilgamesh defeat Heracles so easily that Rin considers that Saber with her true power released might be weaker than him. However, these estimations were made without having yet seen her in that state. After becoming Rin's servant, she became something unlike anything she was before, and Shirou, Rin, and even EMIYA were all left speechless and fascinated before her rising swirls of Magical Energy and armor that can never be damaged. In fact, just seeing her standing in that state without moving a single finger is enough to make Shirou believe that there seems to be no end to her overwhelming power and that she wouldn't lose even to Berserker, despite believing Invisible Air was her only Noble Phantasm. The Heroic Spirit of the sword standing before them was so powerful, that it could be nothing but the strongest servant. However, Shirou would later claim that Saber would be no match for Gilgamesh, to which she replied that although he is certainly a strong enemy, she would not lose easily against him if she went into defense. Rin also told Shirou that he seemed to be thinking pretty highly of Gilgamesh. In response, Shirou said that although he is sure that Saber is stronger than Gilgamesh, he would defeat her thanks to being "war itself" and the great advantage it provides him over the other Heroic Spirits. However, Shirou claimed this without having yet learned of the existence of her true Noble Phantasm. Even taking into account that her attributes are not fit to fight him, Saber believes there is a chance at beating Gilgamesh with her holy sword before he can use his own Noble Phantasm. Artoria is also strengthened under Medea but doesn't display it due to being incapacitated by the Command Spell.

Unlike other Heroic Spirits who can fit under multiple classes, Artoria claims that she is only suited to the Saber class. However, she could possibly have the capacity to qualify for the Caster class, but "magecraft is not the way of the King" and she lacks the patience to actually learn magecraft. When Shirou Kotomine confirmed that both Lancer and Rider of Red possess the strength necessary to oppose Vlad III, even within his home country, Mordred considered the possibility of her Father being one of the servants he was talking about. This not only indicates that Mordred believes that Artoria could be summoned in one of those two classes, but that even when she is not summoned in her primary class, Artoria would still be "absurdly overpowered", likely thanks to possessing great fame herself or power which exceeds even said fame. In fact, if Artoria were summoned in western Europe, she would receive a general boost in power similar to other European Heroic Spirits such as Heracles or Cú Chulainn, and she would display a much sharper increase in power in England. As such, as long as she is in her home country, she has possibly the greatest fame of all, a match for Heracles in Greece or Vlad III in Romania.

Saber was born with the Magical Energy of a Dragon, shown by the "Pendragon" name, as Uther ordered Merlin to grant his successor the Factor of the Dragon. She is the holder of the Element of the Red Dragon who carries the blood and very magical power of a phantasm in a human body, granting her a heart and unique Magic Circuits that transcend what can be achieved by normal humans and magi. Agravain claims that Artoria is not the incarnation of the Dragon; but rather, that her heart is a single Dragon. Thus, Saber's Magic Circuits are called a Magic Core, which is fundamentally different from those of a normal magus.

While a magus' body can be considered a machine which creates Magical Energy, hers acts as a factory which creates Magical Energy. It functions as an enormous Magical Energy core with tremendous capacity that generates energy independent from her body simply through breathing like Dragons. The amount of Magical Energy it generates rivals the heat of the Earth's core, and it was due to her own power that Excalibur was considered the strongest holy sword. Artoria is said to possess Magical Energy like that of the gods, and thus, Agravain claims that her magical power is of a level beyond the other Knights of the Round Table. This allows for a case where she herself is so out of energy that she is unable to access the energy without a proper "starting key" to get the extra energy flowing. Due to the characteristics of a Dragon, she has trouble with existences such as Siegfried, who is associated with tales of culling Dragons and weapons with an anti-dragon attribute such as Arondight.

As Shirou Emiya's Servant, the fault in her summoning caused the normal line between servant and Master to not be connected, so she cannot replenish Magical Energy normally under him. She is essentially limited to the amount with which she was summoned, around 1250 units of Magical Energy, placing her in a bad situation. It would help her even if he were only able to provide a small amount, but she doesn't receive any due to lack of a normal spiritual connection. She uses the energy of ten average mature magi just in the span of her first day. She would have to use a low amount for all of the subsequent battles, ten units assuming there was no damage, which would also place a limit on her use of her Noble Phantasm.

She can lower the amount consumed by regularly consuming food, sleeping as much as possible, and disarming herself, as she cannot go into spiritual form to reduce the burden on her Master like other Servants. She can regenerate eight units of Magical Energy while subsiding on six units by being idle during the day, allowing her to save two units for later battle. The amount is inefficient, as the first battles with Lancer and Berserker cost her two hundred fifty units to protect herself and restore her broken armor. The only ways to supply her with energy would be to force her to feed on human souls with a Command Spell, or to use alternate means than the inactive spiritually connected path to provide her with Magical Energy.

One of Artoria's greatest deeds is defeating a Dragon. When Artoria and her troops confronted the Usurper Vortigern, only she was able to see through his true power. In an instant, before the others could react, Vortigern released its true form as a dragon that clouded the sky despite it being the mid of day, and vaporized the elite troops and the uninjured with a single attack. Only Artoria was able to react in time, quickly coming to Gawain's aid and shielding him from Vortigern's attack. Still, being a devourer of holy swords, he not only devoured all the light of Gawain's sword, depriving him of the power to fight in the process, but he also reduced the glow of Artoria's own holy sword to that of a weak bonfire, allowing his darkness to grow thicker than it was before. In fact, Vortigern was a monster not even the Knights of the Round Table could have imagined, manifesting the will and avatar of the entire island of Britain. Against such an enemy, all Gawain could think of was praying in the darkness. However, even as faint as it was, the sword of the King did not go out. On the contrary, it continued to shine as shelter in the storm, allowing her to sprung to engage the dragon by herself. Although Gawain advised the King to retreat, Artoria rejuvenated his weakened spirit with her faint cool smile. After the both of them faced him for several hours, they managed to restrain the dragon's movements by digging their holy swords into his hands, depriving him of some of his freedom. It was then that Artoria used a shining spear to pierce through the heart of the crucified dragon which then roared its death scream and crumbled to dust. Before this miracle, even the mighty Gawain could only gaze speechless at the King in awe.

She is extremely skilled with a sword. Even unarmed and faced with a surprise attack from Taiga, said to be an unmatched kendo expert, Saber is able to easily disarm her without even taking a stance. Although the Saber class is famed for its great offensive power, Artoria is also very skilled when it comes to going into defense.

Saber utilizes armor woven by her Magical Energy and it can be called part of her body, so it can be called forth for battle and dismissed for normal interactions. It is heavy, hard silver-white and azure armor including gauntlets, greaves, a breastplate, and long tassets shaped like a skirt that act as impregnable defenses made from Magical Energy overpowering others. She has to will it away manually and it doesn't fade when she is unconscious, so Rin is able to remove it from her like it is normal armor. While she normally wears a casual outfit, removing her armor during battle leaves her with a blue dress that she wears under it. Being made from her energy, it is weak against abilities that target Magical Energy like Gae Dearg. It cannot be permanently damaged no matter how much it is slashed, chipped, or smashed, as she can instantly repair it with her own energy. It costs a great deal to protect herself by forming, maintaining and repairing it, so she may have to forgo healing her body to repair the armor. Maintaining her armor is the same as maintaining her body, so she keeps it off when possible to preserve her dwindling power. The cost of doing so in battle can be deadly, but it can also grant her a boost in power that proves greater than the handicap of losing it. She can dismiss it simply by cutting off the Magical Energy supplied to it, causing it to fade into mist as it breaks into metallic dust. She can manipulate it through psychokinesis, allowing her to impart it on objects of her choice like the Yamaha V-Max.

She has a potent healing ability due to regeneration magic that automatically heals her wounds. It takes her own energy to heal wounds, so she relies on support from her Master if possible. While large, the first wound from Berserker heals in an hour, but the wound from Gae Bolg only heals on the outside and does not completely until Lancer's death due to its curse.

As a Servant who can defy normal physics, she is capable of running directly up a building. She is unable to fly through the sky, but she can repeatedly kick-off of the building to gain momentum. It is no different than free falling, only that she is rising until she loses her speed rather than plummeting downward.

While she has gained knowledge on modern times from the Holy Grail, knowledge about other Heroic Spirits comes from the Throne of Heroes. She is able to recognize heroes like Cú Chulainn but is unable to know of the legend behind Gilles de Rais or Jeanne d'Arc.

Magic Resistance (A Rank): The immense magical power from Artoria's dragon blood grants her a very strong Magic Resistance that is the highest amongst the Servants, especially due to it having increased in magnitudes upon being summoned in the Saber class. She is capable of completely neutralising grand sorceries involving magic arrays and instant contracts. No matter what kind of large spell, magecraft ranked below A is nullified, even those from the Age of Gods. As such, no modern magi of the highest level can wound her, at least directly. However, she notes that divine mysteries greater than herself, such as True Magic and members of the Phantasmal Species with Divinity, can overwhelm it. It is possible that it will not function to its fullest extent if she is targeted by "Dragon-slaying Sorceries". In the story, Artoria retained her Magic Resistance of A while having Shirou and Rin as Masters, regardless the two's differences in power and characteristics. On the other hand, while having Sakura as her Master, her Magic Resistance decreased to B as a result of Blackening. In that state, it becomes able to only nullify magic less than three verses, but it is still able to protect against grand sorceries and ritual magic with little chance of actually damaging her.

Riding (B Rank): Since "knights" are soldiers who are proficient in mounted warfare, Saber's rank in Riding is very high. Chariots and normal mounts can easily be ridden, but she is unable to control Pegasi, Griffons, Dragons, and other Magical Beast and Divine Beast ranked members of the Phantasmal Species. She can not handle such high-level beings because her class is not Rider, and due to the fact that she was a King in the Age of Man, she does not have the fortune of having "Legends of Riding Phantasmal Species". She is able to control modern machinery like motorcycles and automobiles in a similar fashion to mounts. The Riding skill is applicable because they are treated as "modern mounts", but it is unclear if it is applicable to aircrafts. While the rank is B under both Shirou and Rin, it is elevated to A while having Kiritsugu as her Master. The ability allows her to completely understand the control of all ridden equipment both known and unknown to her. Even having never driven a car, she is able to make quick decisions that allow her to easily control it on her first time driving. Even if she doesn't know the actual function of a button, she is able to understand the effect it will have once pressed. She is confident in the prospect of piloting a passenger plane or any other mount by sitting on a saddle, seizing a bridle, and managing the rest with instinct. She does not have the opportunity to demonstrate her Riding ability in the Fifth Holy Grail War, but the battles might have developed differently if she were provided with an appropriate mount.

Mana Burst (A Rank): Saber's entire fighting style and strength are based around her Mana Burst skill. With it, she can infuse and accumulate Magical Energy into her weapon and body, momentarily injecting an arbitrary vector that allows for an exceptional boost of her abilities by instantaneously releasing the Magical Energy to reinforce herself. In other words, it's jet propulsion with mana. This Heroic Spirit applies it in sword fights for defense and movement, demonstrating high performance in every aspect. She uses the Magical Energy for her sword techniques, guarding, and movement. Executing large-scale body reinforcement through Mana Burst is only possible with Artoria's immense magical power. At rank A, even a stick can become a weapon of great power,[1] however, normal weapons without strong divine protection such as Caliburn will not be able to endure the Magical Energy-fueled attack and will be destroyed with one blow. Her power is directly linked to her available energy, so she can't fight at full strength while weakened as Shirou's servant due to his inaptitude as a Master. Still, even in this state, she can shoot a beam from the tip of her sword with power equivalent to an A-Rank attack, as shown in her fight against Heracles, where she managed to take one of his lives. With enough energy to use her full abilities without having to restrain herself, she'd be able to increase the power of her attacks with this skill, to the point where each of them would look like a Noble Phantasm, as seen in Saber Alter's fight against Heracles where she killed him multiple times over. She can also gain a boost in power and speed six times the energy used her armor should she convert the cost for it into her Mana Burst.

Dragon Reactor Core (B Rank): Upgrade from Mana Burst in Fate/Grand Order. Instinct (A Rank): Artoria possesses the ability to always instantly identify "the best personal course of action" during combat. It is an innate ability unlike something that can be gained by anyone through hard work like Mind's Eye (True). Due to having been strengthened by a degree from the specialty of the Saber class, it is essentially a sixth sense in the realm of predicting the future. Because this skill allows for the prediction of trajectory, it is possible to avoid attacks from firearms,[1] and along with listening to the sound of cutting air, she can be said to have a protection against all projectile weapons. Through this ability, it is also possible to negate the penalties inflicted by visual and auditory interference to a certain extend. As Saber Alter, this skill is one rank lower than usual, due to her neglecting her surroundings in order to focuss on suppressing her madness. Despite her Instincts being dulled in that state, she's still able to block he simultaneous attack from four blades. Although no hero can come out unscathed after being trapped between steel-penetrating Noble Phantasms, Saber Alter blocked them like nothing thanks to her godlike cognition-like Instincts.

Shining Path (EX Rank): Upgrade from Instinct in Fate/Grand Order. Charisma (B Rank): Artoria possess B rank Charisma, a rare talent high enough to be the king of a country. Although Artoria reigned as the king of England, even her strong influence was still insufficient to build a vast empire spanning the world, so its rank isn't higher. Nevertheless, Artoria possesses the innate ability to command an army. The morale of military forces she commands is extremely high, and in battle, their abilities improve thanks to this skill. Even though she and Diarmuid only fought once, she was able to etch all of his secret techniques into her memory after having fought with their lives on the line. They are able to understand each other without explanation, allowing Lancer to understand her skills and intentions to pull off an impromptu plan that required complete synchronization between them. She is definitely not a Servant excelling in searching for the enemy, and it is more likely she would be found by enemies while wandering about. Noble Phantasms Invisible Air Artoria's first Noble Phantasm is always Invisible Air, with which she conceals her sword. It does not allow the enemy to determine its range. It is simple, but tremendously effective in hand-to-hand combat. The sword is surrounded by wind that reflects light making it virtually invisible. It is not a vacuum, but the wind whirring around the blade is like a weapon and it seems to increase the damage of the slash. Only when the compressed wind is released is a vacuum state created. When the target has "resistance to visual impediments", the accuracy correction of Invisible Air is ineffective. Other than the advantage of making the blade invisible, it is possible to release the compressed wind, making it a single-use projectile weapon. The damage of such attack is constant, and Saber's strength or Magical Energy does not affect it. Said damage is enough to defeat a Demonic Beast of the Phantasmal Species.

Weapon Artoria wields Excalibur, a Divine Construct forged within the Inner Sea of the Planet. The sword works by converting the mana of the wielder into light, that is unleashed from the tip of the blade like a laser beam that destroys everything in its path. Although Artoria can exert energy on the level of a Divine Spirit, she has never been able to fully unleash this Noble Phantasm due to its full power being limited by the Thirteen Restraints. Even though Excalibur's true power can only be invoked with the appearance of a foreign enemy threatening the planet, it remains as the strongest Holy Sword. As shown in the Fourth Holy Grail War, even Gilles de Rais's Gigantic Horror, an extradimensional evil god that according to Tokiomi Tohsaka could have only been vanquished by Ea, was completely incinerated by Excalibur's destructive power. In fact, to beat Saber in a one on one duel, her opponent would need to be a skilled user of a Noble Phantasm that equals hers. A contradiction, since very few Heroic Spirits may possess a Noble Phantasm surpassing hers.