User blog comment:B214/Volume 23 discussion blog/@comment-27083298-20170415140706/@comment-31137559-20170416144830

Well Dulio and his team were basically equal to Issei and his team. The match could have gone either way. And talking about how beginners do really well in the Rating Games then go on a losing streak was basically aimed at Rias since her team is so power-oriented. They could beat most devils. But the Top 10 are monsters and people would start watching their Rating Games and create countermeasures against them. Look at how it took Sairaorg's Breakdown the Beast to defeat Bedeze Abbadon and Bedeze could still perceive his movements but his physical reaction speed wasn't enough. And Diehauser just easily avoiding Issei's attacks while in True Queen Mode.