User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-139.190.27.252-20170321092843/@comment-31137559-20170322025252

Mostly it comes down to people who think:


 * Rating Games are just about which team is stronger and the stronger team always win. By that reasoning, Rudiger Rosenkreutz shouldn't be in the Top 10. It has been stated he wasn't really extraordinary as a human. As a reincarnated devil, he has beaten teams that were stronger than him by being very tactical. Even Diehauser Belial fears his tactics. It said nothing about him being the strongest or overpowered.


 * If you use strategy and tactics against a stronger team, you are cheating. If you exploit a weakness of a certain individual, you are cheating. If you're not as strong as your opponent, then you just lose. If someone uses Issei's weakness and exploits it, then they are low-down. Rating Games should be entirely head-on battles where strategy and tactics shouldn't be used. There also shouldn't be any restrictions on strong teams.


 * Issei is so strong so there's no way he should lose. Issei would be winning every battle if the enemy didn't use strategy and tactics to counter him. Issei would win in any straight-out fight. Issei is the only one that can exploit people's weaknesses and use strategy and tactics against them. Then we applaud Issei for being so smart and defeating the opponent. And we get mad if someone does the same to Issei.

That's seriously the way I think some people feel. It's like some people don't understand the true nature of the Rating Games. They just think that Rating Games have to be direct battles like Issei vs Sairaorg. Yet I see none of them complaining about Issei having Dress Break and Bilingual. I see none of them complaining about Diehauser having Worthlessness, but some would probably call that a cheap and lowly trick too. Some people are just hurt just because Issei is so powerful yet he isn't winning every battle. I would say this is Main-character-can't-get-defeated-itis.