Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25014849-20140627232456/@comment-25780513-20150417114919

It's kind of unfair that Percy could overpower Annabeth and Jason, who both trained for years longer than him. The main thing that sets Annabeth apart from everyone it that she was the only one who ran away from home and had to fight off monsters alone, so you could say she's got more experience, rather than Jason, who mainly has experience on the battlefield. He was trained from a young age, and never had to make his way to Camp without any training at all. Percy was shielded by his mother for the first twelve years of his life, so he had a better childhood than most of them. Frank, Hazel, Piper, and Leo all have a lot less training than the other three.