Thread:Houki Minami/@comment-26709288-20170601024650/@comment-26087580-20170601032527

To be fair, is not like Issei is untrained, and all things considered, he has a lot of help from his allies and friends.

He defeated both Riser and Sou-Sou with cleverness, as riser wouldn't support holy water and sou sou had the medusa's eye which was weak against samael's poison bullets. besides, both were weakened by his BxB mode and stuff.

Azazel's bracelet+"Vanishing dragon power is taken"+ascalon also worked wonders in his first 'victory' over Vali. Remember that he couldn't barely scratch kokabiel while vali kicked his ass.

His victory over Sairaorg had also an explanation in terms of power: Sairaorg was already suffering due to the IMT and the newest CxC, and in perspective, he was only using BxB-level of power against a CxC-level issei. He sairaorg unleashed breakdown the Beast, things could've been different(and, to be fair, sairaorg's character mojo was thrown out of the window the moment issei conviced him to use Leather Rex).

Against Rizevim were both Ophis and Asia's newest Balance Breaker who saved the day all things considered, plus Fafnir nightmares.

All in all, I think the blame is on the fact Ishibumi-sensei 'helps'(I won't say 'cheats' cuz that would be overkill) kinda jumps on Issei's true progression, and that's kinda unfair in its own way. However, Issei's progression to 'control' those powers once awakened have been relatively fine-paced in my opinion. Except DxD. That's bull in my book.