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Always found demigods in general to be pretty underpowered Percy included. Not sure why he's being singled out. I mean other than being able to cause like...three tidal waves...woo hoo?

The wildest thing he did in my opinion was walk on water, but the bit with the volcano was literally the height of his power and the amount it took from him was enough to the point where it's not even worth mentioning in a recurring sense.

Breathing under water and swimming fast. Okay. A bit of a strength boost? Kudos. I mean nothing he's done more than once in any sense has been enough to be considered, at least as far as super powered characters that I'm used to dealing with, "OP". I mean Riordan has a hard time maintaining some sort of constant power scale throughout the series (as far as damage it does and what they're really capable of) so much to the point where you can't even define someone by their abilities unless you isolate it to like a book or two.

That aside Riordan I think more often than not vastly downplays the impact of these kids using their abilities in and of what they are. That said, he does this while also just arbitrarily writing and describing how great and powerful these techniques are despite all of the above...and it just leaves you searching between the lines like "Okay, where are these great feats worthy of actually being compared to a god that I'm missing?" Always been a peeve of mine.