Talk:Super Orion/@comment-33290593-20191218231703

I noticed quite a lot of people are quite salty about him being the grand archer. I also noticed some people thought being a grand servant meant having a lasting impact on the world or being incredibly strong/powerful. From my own knowledge, as well as the official typemoon wiki, that is all bullshit.

"Grand Servants are of a higher order than regular Servants. The ritual utilized during Holy Grail Wars is based upon the Grand Servant ritual used by Alaya, but on a much lesser extent. Those who hold the position of Grand Servant are said to be the seven greatest Heroic Spirits, each titled with the GrandThe Station of the Crown   position.[1]  If a position is abdicated, the position is filled by another qualified candidate, such as Merlin replacing Solomon. Merlin is a living person rather than a Heroic Spirit, so it is unknown how that factors into the summoning process.

Although the Grand Servants are chosen from the pinnacle of Heroic Spirits, the overwhelming strength that the Grand Servants display against Servants is not because they themselves are that much stronger than other Heroic Spirits, but because they are summoned with a completely different Saint Graph by the World itself.[1]

The Lostbelt Qin Shi Huang is said to possess a Saint Graph on the level of a Grand Servant, but he is not one himself.

Daybit Sem Void's Servant is said to be a Grand Servant of an unrevealed class."

So according to this, there is no formal method of choosing a grand servant. The world itself chooses the servant. And as seen with the grand caster needing clairvoyance, each class probably has a specific requirement.

If it was based solely off power, then lancer Enkidu should be a grand servant, as he is as powerful as Gil, if not more so (as seen in Fate Strange Fake, as well as his ability to bind even divine spirits and turn into whatever he wishes).