>>4249626It’s mostly because despite his natural aptitude for it, he doesn’t LIKE piloting Eva. So during the trials and tests even if he’s sincerely concentrating, his heart simply isn’t into it, unlike Asuka who makes it part of her very identity. But it’s when the chips are down on the battlefield that shinji switches on, free of inhibition. And Asuka has a handicap in that while her natural synch is normally high, but she doesn’t actually know how to connect to her Eva on a deeper level, ironically. Except of course at the very end when she finds out the truth about her Eva.
