User blog comment:Piyush Banerjee/Shin DxD 2 discussion/@comment-33939194-20190630003632/@comment-28884330-20190706030654

Unless they played under a ruleset that mainly relies on strategy, Rias's team would have completely lost. Mahabali's team is majorly God-class, and Mahabali himself can spam attacks on the level of Infinity Blaster. Even Issei's team, as they are right now, is noticably inferior to Mahabali's in a straight fight.