User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-175.136.214.240-20171016073623/@comment-68.105.149.171-20171026162624

Making Issei look weak? He's fought against Baraqiel and defeated him. He fought evenly against Dulio, the strongest Brave Saint. What way does Issei look weak? Oh wait, you think that Rating Games are all about being a badass and just defeating the enemy right? Wrong. Rating Games are about way more. Issei's a king now and compared to the others he isn't experienced being a leader of his own team or being the king of his own peerage. So yeah, he's going to struggle. Or did you think that Issei as dumb as he is would just have everything in order when he only became a king a month ago? Did you expect him to be this perfect character with no flaws? Did you expect that him being a strong fighter means that he would automatically be a strong leader? That's not how it works. You just want a perfect protagonist that has no flaws on his part, go watch SAO. Issei is still learning. Sure he showed that he wasn't a complete idiot in Volume 9 when he took charge. It was nothing grand. Well grand for Issei considering how much of an idiot he is considering he got a nosebleed just thinking of a good plan. It was something showing that he had the potential. But that didn't mean as soon as he would become a king he would be perfect. Issei is someone who's going to learn better doing it himself than having someone tell him how to do it. That's just the way Issei is in my opinion. He hasn't been taught how to be a proper king for years like the Rookies Four has. So yeah when it comes to Rating Games he's going to look bad initially.