User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-95.90.224.203-20170415081527/@comment-31137559-20170417025648

This is Vali we're talking about. Someone like him will get very powerful. When Issei achieved his True Queen mode how many people foresaw Vali getting a new mode as well in Volume 12 that was an improved version of Juggernaut Drive? Vali has immense demonic powers. It's not like he's just sitting on his butt doing nothing. He trains and is trying to achieve new levels of power. Saying those power-ups put Vali at a disadvantage is like saying that Sairaorg is at a disadvantage because Rias has the Power of Destruction and he doesn't. Who's to say that Issei's remade body automatically made him way more powerful than Vali? For all we know, Vali has achieved a new power-up he's just waiting to reveal against Crom Cruach. Just because you got some power in you doesn't just automatically make you more powerful. That's the same as saying Sairaorg is no match against those with the Power of Destruction because he didn't have some factor that gave him an edge over them.