User blog comment:Crimson and Darkness/Shin DxD 3 discussion/@comment-79.119.70.247-20191014170553/@comment-28884330-20191021002826

@Anon Powers without a basis? About the only character who has such a thing is Strada, and yet you haven't complained about him.Then again, you don't care about that. While mentioning the narrative, you're just lying. You don't care about the narrative or the plot in the least, as proven by your arguments. All you're complaining about is Issei not being able to steamroll everything without difficult like some cheaply overpowered MC, and that's a vapid complaint.

First of all, Euclid being superior to Maou-class is doubtful at best, as while he boasted about being on par with Grayfia, this was disproven by Issei's observations from fighting with him and also by info from DxD Zero, both of which indicate he was much inferior and significantly less gifted than Grayfia. Even with this, you ignore that Issei only got the upper hand on Euclid (momentarily at that) either because he revealed an ability that Euclid had no knowledge of and thus took him completely off-guard, or because of this ALONGSIDE getting help from someone else. If Issei didn't have Rossweisse's help then Euclid would have easily dodged his Longinus Smasher and then dispatched the exhausted Issei quickly afterward. There's no reason Gressil couldn't simply dodge the Longinus Smasher and deal with the exhausted Issei afterward, or even more, since Euclid wasn't even killed by the Longinus Smasher, it's possible Gressil could even tank it due to his built up Resistance.

Your analysis on the Rias vs Issei fight is extremely shallow and thus proves that you don't care about the narrative in the least, since you ignore all of the characteristics and abilities of other characters, and focus only in dumb "power, power, power". You act as if Rias' PoD is just like an average aura blast and can be judged by Rias' above Maou-class statement, when that's nowhere near the case. PoD is far more destructive than a normal blast of its same strength level would be, that's what makes it special, otherwise it wouldn't be a thing if it could only work on people on the same level as the user or lower.

That the other characters' growth doesn't make sense? What is the basis? Dude, if you don't know the abilities of the characters then you should re-read back from Volume 1, because you missed stuff so prevalent that it is legit worrying. Then again, it is expected that you, only caring about Issei being a cheap OP protagonist, would completely ignore the special demonic powers, Sacred Gears, legendary weapons and Longinus that the other characters have as part of their arsenal and that compound their capacity for growth. If you cannot remember the arsenals of other characters then this is your problem, not only a problem of reading comprehension, but of basic memory and thinking.

Also, if you think the power difference should make Issei "instantly" defeat Rias, then how come you don't complain about Loki not instantly defeating BxB Issei? Or Apophis not instantly defeating CxC Issei? Oh right, because it's not a problem for you if it's Issei. You further prove that all you care about is Issei not being able to easily deal with everything without a hint of a threat, which is a crappy way to judge a series. And all of those powers follow the plot and narrative, save for Strada. You have yet to come even close to proving otherwise.

How is it relevant that Resistance won't give complete immunity? Completely unnecessary. Immunity is irrelevant if any attack you receive only takes down 1 or 2 hp.