User blog comment:Skeith9/Heroic Spirits Speculation/@comment-24982278-20140525073101/@comment-1458758-20140525225833

I don't think you're being entirely fair, since, assuming Enkidu shares the same combat powers as he does in CCC, then he fits Lancer as much as Gilgamesh (Who fires swords and shit at people) fits Archer.

And personally, I really don't mind the hero line up in Strange Fake. I mean it's not great, I personally would have dropped Gilgamesh myself in light of him bringing nothing new to the game than other stuff, but the others, while broken, I find bring something interesting to the table.

Lancer - While having Gilgamesh probably works better for fighting Enkidu, I find the idea of him, after having gotten Gil in the original, was basically an event waiting to happen and his being paired up with a Wolf makes for a unique dynamic, so we're not dealing with the ego of the king dealing with peasants, but Enkidu interacting with more natural elements, which gives him this very powerful quality. While I'm unfamiliar with his story, I also don't think much of Gilgamesh himself in relation to the mythological origins, so having this be apocryphal really doesn't bother me.

Rider - Once again, a unique situation. A Rider who hops from person to person, capable of showing up anywhere like an Assassin. While lacking in personality, its relationship with Tsubaki takes things in another direction, especially when you consider this can be used to effect the 'Player' depending on the scenario. Admittedly this is by far the biggest stretch as Rider is barely a conscious entity, let alone a 'Heroic Spirit' but as pretty much a living embodiment of a concept, a living disease in the guise of the Horseman of Pestilence is pretty friggin' cool to me.

Berserker - One I don't like, cause while the idea of Flatt actually really amuses me and I find it interesting, having a Jack the Ripper (While more accurate to the 'legend' than the other version) who is basically a calm, calculating Assassin type sort of becomes redundant alongside Rider and the actual Assassin. One, maybe two Assassins, not bad in a secret war, 3 out of 7 with one class down, yeah, kinda bad, but again, least it's closer than Loli-Jack.

Caster - Wish we actually had a picture for this guy. Alexander Dumas I think is a great idea and his ability certainly makes for a interesting strategy to approach a Grail War from. the fact that Dumas sufffered allegations of rewriting other works to better suit his tastes makes this a great take off of his "Legend" as such, and between Medea in the original, Shakespeare in Apocrypha and Anderson in CCC, the idea of Casters who support others more than approach the field themself is no foreign concept to the series.

Assassin - Yeah, I won't lie, she reads like a Mary Sue, but between her views and her Master, she has potential, and with Nasu stating CCC as the last Fate that will likely be done by Type Moon, this Assassin could have been a good ground for basically showing off all the other Hassan skills without needing like 17 other wars to do it. Not to mention, matched up against the other monsters of this war, it's not exactly a bad thing to have a stronger Assassin to match up.

It's still non-canon if you want to look at it that way, but I prefer to look on the bright side of other people's works adding to the series and I find things like their status as 'canon' really don't factor into whether or not it's an interesting story with fun concepts.