User blog comment:B214/Shin DxD 1 discussion/@comment-5.179.152.87-20180729072315/@comment-31137559-20180729095610

I'm pretty sure I'm like the only one thinking that Rias will win this one. If Issei wins, no hard feelings. It's a prediction for a reason.

But what people need to stop doing is acting as if Issei winning is an absolute certainty and deeming it impossible for Rias to win. This is Ishibumi's story. Predictions are all fine and well but some people take it too far and make it entirely one-sided like the only logical conclusion is for Issei to win.

Ishibumi writes the story and who he has win is up to him, not us to decide. Predicting how the match will turn out is all fine and good. But acting as if who won the match has already been decided when either of them could win is just being pretentious.