Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-27084939-20151219015402/@comment-1820614-20160116045223

I blame it on the Superman Problem or Superman Syndrome. If you have one hero who is a good deal more powerful than everyone else or too powerful for most situations you have to either water-down his powers or power everyone else up. Percy, with only a few lessons was able to fight pretty evenly with Ares. He defeated Polybotes, a giant supposed to fight Poseidon without too much trouble. He was far more powerful than Jason Grace, his Roman equivilant. Percy's powers went up and down as required by story which is why he could defeats the Gigantes like Otin or Polybotes one moment while having problems with lesser monsters another moment.