User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-1359322-20170318060342/@comment-31137559-20170318150012

You have the traditional Rating Games in mind. Has it occured to you that there are different types of Rating Games as we have just seen and there are different approaches to them? Thinking you're powerful because you have OP members is a quick way to lose or make mistakes. Issei's first three matches which should have been clear victories for him because his team was so much more powerful ended with him getting bad reviews even though he won. Why is that? His performance was bad. Why was Sona's peerage getting praised although they lost to Rias' peerage? Because they gave a good performance.

Just because Rias has OP members on her team is no reason to look down on other members of other teams. People like Xenovia, Irina, Rossweisse, Bikou, Arthur, Le Fay, Kuroka, and the others are pretty strong in their own right. It's not just power that determines everything in a Rating Games. Don't be blinded by all the OP members on Rias' team and think she's going to be undefeatable.

And Ravel's mother was talking about Ravel's personality. Not any special power of hers. I think you read too much into that and overinterpreted it.