User blog comment:B214/Shin DxD 1 discussion/@comment-30230931-20180804194539/@comment-28884330-20180806035307

"Here's what you do:

1. List a couple of people on Issei's side and only focus on them.

2. You entirely ignore Rias' side not even listing the advantages that her team has.

3. Say one team far outclasses the other." And here you see, the willfully ignorant strawman generator in its natural habitat.

I didn't list "a couple of people", I listed four reasons that make Issei's team superior to Rias in extreme detail, each consisting of several factors. The reason I don't mention "Rias' advantages" are because other than leadership, which has shown to be mostly irrelevant save for making critics happy, she doesn't have any real advantage over Issei's team. If there are, then please list them. Factual reasons instead of "LEADERSHIP! LONGINUS MAKE EXTRAORDINARY THINGS". Unknown variables are not facts, nor valid reasons, and unknown variables are all that you have used, not even having the ability to refute a single of my reasons. How lovely.

"First you use Issei and Ddraig. Again the power of an opponent isn't the only thing that matters or else Issei would have lost against Typhon and Diehauser wouldn't even have beaten the god teams." Another strawman you invented. I never said power is all that matters and I even explained how Typhon's team lost and Diehauser's team won, specifically mentioning why those examples do not apply to Issei and Rias. Dude, once again, ignoring what people say doesn't make their facts disappear. The power advantage was only one of the four reasons I gave.

'Next you use Xenovia having Avalon." Xenovia does not have anything called "Avalon". Stop calling it that, it's so obnoxious.

"In Volume 16, Gasper negated the effects of Sephiroth Graal and cancelled out Marius' immortality." Marius' "immortality" was just regeneration, fundamentally different from what the Scabbard does. And Gasper did not "negate" the ability, he simply infected the wounds with his darkness, with it eating Marius fast enough that the regeneration was sufficiently offset.

"In Volume 20(or was it 19), Diehauser made Ravel's regeneration 'worthless.'" Rias does not have [Worthless] in her team, so this is irrelevant.

"In Volume 10, Sairaorg's bishop cancelled out Xenovia's ability to wield a holy sword." Rias does not have Sairaorg's Bishop nor his Sacred Gear. In fact, Rias' team does not have a single ability canceller on her team, so stop using things outside of her team to try to defend your position. Xenovia's Scabbard can be countered, but it cannot be countered by Rias' team as it currently is, and there's nothing to indicate that it can.

"Rias lost to Vali but that doesn't mean her tactics failed. And you use Rias losing the only major match she had in the preliminaries. And then compare it to Issei winning 3 of the 4 major matches he had in the preliminaries. That really can't be compared." They can be compared, and your reply is factually false. First of all, I didn't use Rias' match against Vali at any moment, I used her match against Riser and not just her Rating Games in the Azazel Cup, but all of them. Rias has had Rating Games against Riser, Sona, Sairaorg and Vali. How amusing~! The same amount Issei has had~! Only the one with Riser had any measure of strategical success, and it was because Riser was just playing around all the time and not taking it seriously.

"Again you constantly use a couple of factors and one side and ignore everything else." I addressed much more than "a couple of factors". I didn't ignore anything. I purposelly mentioned those reasons because they, in tandem, are something that Rias' team simply cannot overcome as they are current, unless there is some convoluted Rating Game rule that conveniently favors her and disfavors Issei.

"I really can't take your assessment of Issei's team outclassing Rias' seriously." Because you can't logically refute a single thing that I said? Because your position is extremely weak? Because you don't know how to argue and have to rely on variables outside the current state of things to make even a shoddy pseudo-argument? That's all you have proven. The reason you don't take my assessment "seriously" is because you have absolutely no form of refuting it logically. That's just how it is. Admit it and stop embarrassing yourself.

"Assess BOTH teams and discuss all of their advantages and disadvantages" Again, this is irrelevant. Rias' team doesn't have any "advantages" per se since she's outclassed in every aspect except leadership, as I explained before. Once again, in tandem, the reasons I exposed are impossible for Rias' team to overcome unless there's very special Rating Game rules that favor her. That's just how it is, and you being unable to refute any of my points only proves it even more.

"and explain why they would win." I already did so. It's not my fault if you don't read.

"Instead of using a couple of points on only one side and using it to entirely turn the entire match in Issei's favor." I never did this. You keep saying I did things that I never did, strawman generator. At any rate, even if I had only listed "a couple of points", that's infinitely better than offering zero factual points, like you have.