Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-24067344-20160405200149

8th Hero of Olympus wrote: ^^Maybe not, but while possessed, Jason and Percy still retained all of their respective combat skills.

I find it incredible to see the fact that people concentrate completely on this quote/section of MoA and leave out the other facts. It has been told already in The Mark of Athena the possibility why they were equal:

''Many of Percy's powers had gotten stronger over the years, but now, too late, Percy realized that swordplay was not one of them. He was rusty-at least against an adversary like Chrysaor." (pg. 368).''

Let me put this in plain words: Jason was fighting a out-of-practice Percy, which means, no, Jason is not equal to Percy in sword fighting. Or, another possibility could be that, Percy has not found a swordsman superior to Him, which means Jason is equal with Percy, or even weaker than him. I find the first one to be more believable, since it seems he has improved in every way, except sword fighting. This could probably imply, that no one is on Percy's level in combat, at least in the 7, which has made him rusty, since Percy has normally fought people far superior to him in combat (Luke or Quintis), which has improved his overall combat skills.

Plus, I think some are greatly exaggerating Jason's powers (Looking at you 8th). It has already been shown that lightning bolts/electricity doesn't affect Percy, which is a minus point for Jason, as shown in Kansas and Thalia vs Percy fight in The Titan's Curse.