User blog comment:Piyush Banerjee/Shin DxD 2 discussion/@comment-2602:306:CD9A:C860:1999:D3D0:B3E7:CF47-20190219114510/@comment-33341107-20190221163647

Kai tyson I think it's possible you may be over estimating Rias. What do you mean she has a more experienced team? Issei and Rias' teams registered for the Azazel cu0 at the same time so they have the same experience in that regard, if your refering to the experience of the individual members than granted Crom has the most experiece of either team, followed by Ddraig, who has thosands of years of experience, then Fafnir who agains will have thousands of years of experience, then Grayfia with 500 years then Roygun with over a century then Strada with 80 years, so yes Rias has the most epxperienced player on her team but Issei has more more experienced players on his team. If you were talking about Rias' peerage members having more experience, iirc it was never stated that Rias participated in a rating game till her battle with Riser, a match that included both Issei and Asia but not Gasper, he didn't participate in a rating game until Sona, a game that also included Xenovia. So in terms of experience I would say that Issei's peerage has almost identical levels of experience that Rias' does just not as Issei's servents, as hers, they all have plenty of experience working as a team.

Rias predicted all of Ravels moves? Sona has said Rias has simple tactis, she typically wins by overpowing her opponents, since her opponents were more powerful than her in this case that was going to work. She did successfully get off the suprise attack but that was it, Ravels plan was to keep Strada and Crom, the only 2 members of Rias' team who posed a threat to Issei, away from Issei. What happened? Strada and Crom were kept away from Issei, the game unfolded exactly as Ravel wanted it to after the intial ambush. If Rias was going to out smart Ravel she wouldn't have said "oh we can't fight Asia because ... (feelings?) Cron you do it" she would have said "Crom we'll fight Asia, you go take on Issei before he summons Ddraig, a heavenly dragon who litteraly no one on the team aside from you will stand a chance of taking down". Another acceptable answer woupd have been "Strada since Crom's fighting Asia why don't you go fight and seriously injure Issei while Kiba takes on Xenovia, Irina and Ouryuu, he may not have the power nessicary to defeat the 3 of them but hes fast enough to avoid them for so long that he's unlikely to be retired". Instead of either of these sensible decisions she decided to have her strongest take on Issei's only non combatant and have her second strongest take on Issei's only non retirable player while Kiba fought Issei, a fight he was clearly never going to win.

Rias strongest fighter; heavenly dragon class Issei strongest fighter; heavenly dragon class Rias 2nd fighter; god class Issei 2nd fighter; heavenly dragon class Rias 3rd fighter when mixed with 2nd weakest; above maou class Issei 3rd best; maou class Issei's team not only had the advantage in numbers but his team was overall more powerful.