User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-95.90.224.203-20170415081527/@comment-31137559-20170417122804

That's a very powerful combination. But does it really guarantee that he's surpassing Vali? Again people are obsessed with the Power of Infinity and Great Red's power within Issei so much that are completely ignoring what Vali is capable of. And right now Vali can still use DxD which wasn't nerfed. Who knows how much he has improved that. He's naturally talented, has a whole lot of demonic powers, and has Divine Dividing. It would just make a bad story if after Vali and Issei have been moving ahead with just Vali a little bit in the lead, Issei just leaves him in the dust. Then there's no point in them fighting. There's not even a point of them being rivals. It's like people overhyping Valerie's and Lint's Longinus and forgetting about the strength of Issei's team members that have way more combat experience than those two.

And it's because of being Lucifer that Vali has his immense demonic powers and nothing else. He has done some unrealistic things with his demonic powers. What has Issei done so far with his remade body? Issei isn't Great Red or Ophis, he just has their powers. I have no doubt he's going to be in the Top 10, and I love Issei. But Vali isn't out of the game yet just because he doesn't have something as grand-sounding as the Great Red's and Ophis' power within him. And Sairaorg didn't have any Power of Destruction or any natural talent, yet he became stronger than those that did by training. It didn't matter he didn't have something as impressive as the Power of Destruction or demonic powers. That didn't stop him from getting up there.