User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 25 discussion blog/@comment-34061653-20180506195121/@comment-28884330-20180507034212

The difference is that Riser's training with Sairaorg was off-screen, it was not described that they were fighting on par with one another. Lint's and Xenovia's training was onscreen and showed them to be comparable.

Lint does have a advantages. Namely, a Longinus is obviously stronger than a holy sword that is not even focused on power, and going by their wings, Lint's power as an Angel is higher than Irina's. The way you are talking is basically saying that unless you have fully mastered a Longinus then it's just an average attack method with no particular strength, and that is not true unless you're talking about something like unmastered Boosted Gear, which has very glaring weaknesses. Seriously, are you saying that Hautecleure, a holy sword that doesn't even focus on power and has no showings beyond removing Yamata No Orochi's influence on Yaegaki, is in any way comparable to a Longinus? Not just a Longinus, but a Longinus that has reached Balance Breaker. With no showings in a fight between the two, Lint's specs are much higher than Irina's by simple logic. There's much less reason to believe Irina is at Lint's level than reason to believe Lint being superior to her. Lint has enough experience with her Longinus to have reached Balance Breaker and infuse it in her sword and gun. Hautecleure is not a god-slaying tool even when mastered, it's a sword of purification, so there's no reason to think it is even comparable to Incinerate Anthem with all other things being equal. And fighting those useless mass-produced Evil Dragons that even Ruruko can easily beat is dangerous now?

Yeah, it would hurt Rias' team a lot to lose almost any member. But the same could be applied to Issei's team losing Ravel, who is a keystone in his team and very vulnerable. And Issei's team has more vulnerable members than Rias', if not by their actual strength, but rather by their affinity.

Also, my mistake. As I said in the other message, I referred to Fenrir being superior to mid-god class. I skipped it when I was explaining the misunderstanding. My bad.