User blog comment:Piyush Banerjee/Shin DxD 2 discussion/@comment-2602:306:CD9A:C860:A9B0:D607:7141:9234-20190706015400/@comment-28884330-20190707214312

Upper hand maybe at the beginning, because at the end they were both fighting equally and knelt down at the first time. Your talk on Euclid not having that vague "battle mentality" you mention and relying only on talent is baseless speculation, so it;s invalid. Why would Issei need to be able to cancel magic like Strada? Vali only ever uses blasts except for that one-off in Volume 4, so he doesn't have any complex magic variety that warrants anything other than Issei shooting blasts back, which he can easily do. And since when was Loki ever mentioned to be a master of magic? More baseless speculation on your part. And those are only two battles, the fact is that Vali has never used any magic other than blasts in ANY of his battles. The only time he used something that was  not a blast was with Gasper in Volume 4, so all you're doing is relying on baseless variables rather than actual facts.

You're ignoring the Longinus Smasher too, and the effort of throwing those swords with great accuracy. It's not just using Penetrate and Transfer. Are you gonna say that shooting Longinus Smasher doesn't take any stamina? And Issei possibly not winning without Ascalon and Ascalon II is irrelevant, because he only used his Infinity Blaster + Longinus Smasher due to predicting Vidar would dodge it. So the fight would have ended in a different way, regardless of who wins, if he didn't have them.

What is this "battle senses" now? You keep bringing up vague terminology not rooted in anything but your speculatiion to try and vaguely defend your point. And using the comparison with Yuuto is imprecise because it's unknown how Yuuto's speed compares to DxD L's.