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"-----Can you keep up with me?"

Archer is a major character from Type-Moon's 2004 visual novel Fate/stay night. In the story, he is a Servant who fights alongside his Master, the teenage magus and high school student Rin Tohsaka, in the Fifth Holy Grail War. Contrary to his name, Archer doesn't actually use a bow and arrow when fighting, but wields a variety of weapons instead.

The name "Archer" actually refers to a class of Servants, but most fans refer to him by this class name because unlike most Servants, who represent various historical or legendary figures, his true identity is different and a major spoiler because it plays a central plot point in one of the visual novel's routes.

In online fandoms, Archer is one of the most popular characters from the Fate series because of his general badassery. However, he isn't really voted for being a "video game character" despite debuting in one, as he's better known for his anime incarnations instead. In fact, he has exhibited very strong performances in several notable anime character popularity contestsSaimoe (aka events similar to this wiki's Character Battle), where he consistently appears in the later rounds. Although Archer has little presence in GameFAQs, he managed to qualify in a major contest when he appeared in 2013's Character Battle IX (a massively inclusive tournament with 243 contestants, mind you), ending up last place in his round 1 trio behind Nintendo regulars Bowser and Meta Knight.

Matches:

Character Battle IX - Division 2, seed 12
Rd Opponent Score Series VF% Link
R1
(Top 243)
(7) Bowser icon Bowser 18,778 > 7468 > 4767 15.37% Link
(21) Meta knight icon Meta Knight
(12) Archer vn icon (You)
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