User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 25 discussion blog/@comment-34061653-20180506195121/@comment-28884330-20180508001613

What? When did I say her Balance Breaker affects her base stats? I never said such a thing. She doesn't even need that to beat Irina. Lint on her own is comparable to Irina on her own, so adding an independent type Balance Breaker would be enough to turn the odds in Lint's favor. There's no need to increase her base stats. I was referring to Angel power, not all around power. Basically, in terms of light potential, so to say. And Dulio has less wings than Michael only in his base state, while in his Balance Breaker he has the same amount of wings and in the same color. So you're wrong in that.

I mentioned Lint's Balance Breaker because it's on her page, actually. I don't have much knowledge of the raws beyond the spoilers that have been pasted on animesuki or the wiki, and I have not read the Volume 24 ones in a good while. I also don't know how much time Lint fought Sha Wujing after activating her Balance Breaker. And unlike Sha Wujing, Irina doesn't have any sort of affinity toward Lint.

Hiding her is one option. There's also having Valerie develop more of her Sacred Gear's potential in different ways. We don't know the full extent of what Sephiroth Graal does. She could even, for example, do something like the modifications the Tepes Vampires received but on herself, acquiring regeneration similar to that of the Phenex so she can't be so easily put down. That's another option that you haven't taken into account.