Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-31393646-20170603124449/@comment-29729973-20170808202354

@ Utkar22: Yeah, but we really can't say that for sure, since both Piper and eidolons interfered. Yes, I'll say that Percy is a better swordsman than Jason since being able to go toe with him despite having inferior training to Jason, but you can arguably still say that Jason almost about match Percy to swordplay at the moment, but don't forget that Jason is also a skilled SPEARSMAN, who knows, maybe Jason is more skilled with a spear more than his with a sword. But I just discovered something, the gold sword that Jason was using in Lost Hero is destroyed, but replaced by a gladius, which seems much different than the gold sword Jason was using before. Let's do some math real quick: Percy trained with his sword for every summer for the last 5 years. So that's somewhere about 15 months altogether since 3 × 5 = 15. So that's about 1 year and 3 months plus a several of weeks that Percy has trained with his sword. While Jason had his gladius about December to June: which is just about 6 months. So 6 months of Jason's training with his gladius vs 1 year and 4 months of Percy's training with Riptide, but Jason was still able to match Percy in combat. So could it be possible that Jason. . . is the better fighter than Percy. . . Who knows maybe if Jason had the weapon he was more comfortable with( his golden sword, Ilvis) maybe he could have bested Percy in combat.