User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 25 discussion blog/@comment-82.160.23.173-20180626202008/@comment-28884330-20180704132804

You’re kinda shooting yourself in the foot by trying to use Issei vs Baraqiel to prove your point, since Issei’s use of Infinity Blaster was mostly strategy. It was a strategic use of his immense power meant to give them the highest advantage possible, not to say that Baraqiel’s team made a huge strategic blunde run leaving Issei alone even while predicting he would use Castling. You are of a wrong thinking here by implying that because Issei was stronger or that Infinity Blaster was so strong that no strategy was involved, when you’re simply wrong in that. No strategy would have simply been shooting Infinity Blaster mindlessly at Baraqiel and that’s not what happened, Infinity Blaster was the check move by Ravel’s strategy. Yes, strategy. Power and strategy are not mutually exclusive.

And by your logic you’re basically contradicting Rudiger being 7th ranked in the Rating Games and defeating Tannin’s team not one, but several times. Once again you’re presenting my argument in a way that I’m not even implying just to make your point sound stronger.

First of all, I never said strategy is invincible or that it’s the only thing that matters, I simply said it can make the difference and this is proven by Rudiger’s rank and feats. Second, you are making lots of assumptions on the Rating Game between Mahabali and Zeno. The game wasn’t even shown except for the ending so your thoughts on how it went are unproven and doubtful at best, and you are still yet to prove that Mahabali is somehow a skilled strategist.

Finally, your point about Sona being unable to pass is irrelevant. She’s the best strategist of her generation, emphasis on “her generation”. Aside from three teams in the finals, none of the 16 teams are from her generation to begin with, so she could very easily be completely outclassed by the tacticians of most other teams in the finals. Not to say that Sona’s team completely lacks in the power department for a proper balance, and once again, I never said strategy alone makes you a god. But absolutely none of the teams present in the finals are strategy along so your point is meaningless in the first place, because they all have the necessary power to make their strategy shine, hence my initial point on potentially any of the teams in the finals beating team Black Satan if the ruleset is appropriate.