Rider (Christopher Columbus)

==Summary==
Rider of the Resistance is a Rider-class Servant who appears in the Agartha singularity in Fate/Grand Order.
Rider's True Name is Christopher Columbus, the first Christian explorer to reach the "New World" during the Age of Exploration. While he was originally searching for a faster route to India, he and his three flagships, the Pinta, La Niña, and Santa Maria, landed on San Salvador Island instead. On verge of a mutiny and desperate to make his travels worthwhile, he proceeded to plunder the Americas for riches while subjugating the indigenous people.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , with Santa Maria
Name: Rider of the Resistance, Christopher Columbus
Origin: Fate/Grand Order
Gender: Male
Age: 55 at the time of death of his real-life counterpart
Classification: Rider-class Servant, Heroic Spirit
Powers and Abilities: Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Weapon Mastery, minor Mind Manipulation and Social Influencing with Charisma, Chain Manipulation, Summoning (Can summon the Santa Maria), Supernatural Luck and Minor Fate Manipulation (Servants with B-rank Luck or higher can change their own fates to evade inevitable outcomes such as having their hearts destroyed by Gáe Bolg. Columbus possesses EX rank luck, Taiga Fujimura who is said to have the equivalent of EX Luck was able to cause a butterfly effect during the Fourth Grail War which saved the World 3 times including causing a massive Asteroid to Change its course), Limited Power Nullification, Vehicular Mastery, Animal Manipulation, Servant Physiology, Resistance to BFR
Attack Potency: Large Island level+ (Nearly killed Helena Blavatsky and assisted in the battle against Dahut, who was using the Saint Graph of Francis Drake), Small Country level with Saint Maria (As an A-rank Anti-Army Noble Phantasm, it should be comparable to Durindana. In Agartha, it was used to help momentarily restrain Megalos, who is Heracles that had his Saint Graph modified by Scheherazade)
Speed: Relativistic+ with FTL reactions and combat speed (Battled Dahut alongside Astolfo and Chevalier d'Eon)
Lifting Strength: Class M (Comparable to Martha who stopped a speeding train, Achilles who stopped a rolling 300 ton jumbo jet, Asterios who swam carrying the 100-150 ton Golden Hind galleon ship while injured, and Jeanne who can spin an entire airplane)
Striking Strength: Large Island level+
Durability: Large Island level+
Stamina: Superhuman (Servants can fight for an entire day without tiring and continue fighting for as long as they have sufficient mana)
Range: Extended Melee Range with his whips and flails.
Standard Equipment: A whip, a flintlock rifle, a sword, an anchor, and the Santa Maria's steering wheel
Intelligence: As the most famous explorer of the Age of Exploration, Columbus is an able leader and navigator, having discovered the Americas by accident while trying to plot a new route to India. He is skilled in the use of a variety of weapons, including his sword, a flintlock rifle, a miniature anchor, and the steering wheel of the Santa Maria. Conniving and manipulative, he saved himself from mutiny on multiple occasions with his skilled oration and was pragmatic enough to ambush and attempt to dispose of Helena Blavatsky immediately to prevent her from revealing his true colors.
Weaknesses: Cannot fight in Spirit Form.
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
=== Noble Phantasm ===
Santa Maria - Drop Anchor: Exploration of the New World: The Noble Phantasm of Christopher Columbus. The crystallization of the most famous maritime voyage in the world. Columbus "docks" the steering wheel of the Santa Maria to its post, even if he is on land, to summon his greatest ship to the battlefield. He can then command it to drop its anchors, bombarding his foes with a rain of magical chains and steel.
===Class Skills===
*Magic Resistance: An innate ability that grants protection against magical effects. Unlike the Resistance effect that merely rejects Magical Energy, this ability cancels the spells altogether. This also applies to indirect magical attacks, such as magical hypnosis, petrification, and spatial manipulation. Columbus’s D rank allows him to only handle single-action spells (weak spells that only require a single word) at most. Stronger and more complex spells will easily overwhelm his defenses.
*Riding: The ability to ride mounts. Columbus' expertise in commandeering a variety of ships has given him a B-Rank in this skill, allowing him to ride virtually any modern vehicle or mount to superhuman speeds with expert skill. However, he won't be able to ride mounts like Phantasmal Beasts.
===Personal Skills===
* Conquistador: A skill conferred onto those who conquered uncharted lands at the climax of the Age of Exploration. Columbus's EX Rank in this skill grants him bonuses whenever he's ruling, invading, pillaging, or conquering unknown lands as the famed explorer who paved the way for the conquering of the American continent.
* Unyielding Will: A skill that represents one's unbending will no matter what sort of agony, despair, or adversity its holder faces. It grants a limited amount of resistance against physical and mental damage, greatly raising his ability to withstand physical and mental pain. But it does not protect Columbus from indirect abilities, such as illusions that conceal traps.
* Voyager of the Storm: A skill given to those who have successfully sailed ships in their legends. Because of the cooperation and leadership required to commandeer one, it grants the effects of the Charisma and Military Tactics skills, greatly increasing Columbus' charm and ability to command and direct others.
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Losses:
Inconclusive:
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