User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Volume 25 discussion blog/@comment-34061653-20180506195121/@comment-28884330-20180507010855

Lint’s swordsmanship is on par with Xenovia, and this is Lint without using her Balance Breaker. Irina’s skills might be on par with those of Xenovia and Lint, but the difference is her firepower is severely lacking in comparison. When the skill is equal, the one with the highest firepower wins, almost assuredly. There’s no reason to believe Irina has more experience than Lint, in fact, Lint’s experience could be even superior considering she was a secret agent and probably has survived more danger than Irina has. Also, Lint’s flames are not only deadly toward Devils. They have even more of an effect toward them, but they are still Longinus, and they are not Longinus due to having an advantage toward Devils just how the True Longinus is not only deadly toward them. The potential to kill a god is what makes a Longinus, not the potential to kill Maou.

Healing people at a distance is much weaker than Asia’s direct touch, and someone like her can’t possibly keep up with high speed combat to nail most of her healing arrows unless they come to a stop. Not to say that he Balance Breaker can’t be sent over such a large range.

Yeah, if Ddraig comes across anyone short of Crom in Rias’ team they are pretty much toast, but Ddraig can’t be everywhere at all times, just like Typhon did not completely sweep Issei’s team in one minute.

You are also missing the fact that this is not limited to 1v1s or that 1v1s might not last that long. Just how if anyone meets Ddraig they are dead, if for example, Bova meets Yuuto, Bova is dead in 1 second.

Once again, I am not saying this is a sure thing. Issei’s team has higher chances of winning looking at specs, but Rias’ chances are not negligible due to other variables aside from strength and numbers, not to say that Rias’ team is much stronger in the teamwork department, and with her loss to Vali, she will know for when she meets Issei that her team is still not OP enough to just steamroll through everything. Hence, that’s where other variables come into play.