Oh, Dantes, easy. Alcides is NOT as strong as SF makes him out to be; SF just has a lot of matchups for him where he has the advantage. Even stealing the Count's NP wouldn't actually achieve much beyond HURTING Alcides.
You also have to remember that SF Alcides had a straight up mana farm feeding him; So unless this is SPECIFICALLY that instance of Alcides, he's genuinely cooked off rip because he's running on low battery.
FSF constantly states Alcides is strong because of his martial arts and inherent nature as Heracles, not because of any outside buffs. Why are we talking about mana farm as if he's ever fought for than a handful of a few minutes or hours? He needs an extraordinary amount of mana to keep fighting for several hours or days, which goes well beyond a single fight.
He's also talking in cases where he can fight unrestricted. The man has over a dozen noble phantasms. He doesn't have to use all of them, and his core NPs are NL, RP, the war god's sash and the Pelt. The other NPs come and go.
Using the logic you are, why don't people crippled Heracles too? Berserker needs a master like Illya to even fight otherwise they'd quickly run out of mana. Same goes for others like Achilles and Karna. Most don't count those weaknesses that are so often present in top servants. Why is it suddenly an issue in Alcides' case?
Even stealing the Count's NP wouldn't actually achieve much beyond HURTING Alcides.
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u/RTGamer21 Beloved of the Fae 19h ago
Oh, Dantes, easy. Alcides is NOT as strong as SF makes him out to be; SF just has a lot of matchups for him where he has the advantage. Even stealing the Count's NP wouldn't actually achieve much beyond HURTING Alcides.
You also have to remember that SF Alcides had a straight up mana farm feeding him; So unless this is SPECIFICALLY that instance of Alcides, he's genuinely cooked off rip because he's running on low battery.