Board Thread:Antaeus' Arena: Audience Chamber/@comment-1515612-20150930233157/@comment-24067344-20160512013856

8th Hero of Olympus wrote: ^^^When I said that Jason held his own against Porphyrion with some help from Zeus, I was referring to the time that they battled in "The Blood of Olympus", when Jason finally managed to gain the upper hand against the Giant King.

And saying that 12-year-old Percy defeated Ares is both blowing that feat out of proportion, and taking it out of context, because Ares was holding back and toying with him. My proof? In "The Mark of Athena", Chrysaor is stated to be just as skilled a swordsman as Ares, and a far more skilled and experienced 16-year-old version of Percy is defeated and disarmed by Chrysaor twice in mere seconds.

About Krios... See, Tartarus himself has confirmed that Iapetus is weaker than Krios, and Iapetus was only able to temporarily hold his own against Tartarus because, unlike Krios and Hyperion, he wasn't caught off-guard by the infernal god, and was extremely persistent in his determination to help Percy and Annabeth. Also, you shouldn't take the duel out of context, as Percy was only able to gain the upper hand against Iapetus by forcing him down into the Lethe, and would not have otherwise prevailed. And Krios being the one to babysit Atlas doesn't necessarily mean that he's less powerful than Iapetus - he was forced to do that because Iapetus was out of commission (with his memory wiped), so had Iapetus been available, it might be logical to assume that he might have been babysitting Atlas instead.

Oh really, 8th? You call that out of context? Reread the fight in The Lightning Thief. If Ares really was toying around with Percy, why did he summon a boar in the beginning of the fight, and why did he keep trying to avoid a fight with Percy? Was he nervous that Percy's could beat his butt? It sure looked like that, considering the fact that Percy mentioned Ares was nervous/uneasy fighting against Percy. Plus, throughout the fight, toying or not, Ares and Percy were roughly equal, with Percy defeating, or at the very least injuring Ares at the end of the fight, which is something Ares could not do at all.

And second of all, stop mentioning that. Even you yourself said that was inconsistency in the series. Here's what you said a long time ago:

"^^Well, and I suppose Ares was not going all out against Percy, since he was overconfident and didn't take the young demigod seriously. Because that would explain another inconsistency - Percy was beaten by Luke, and Luke was beaten by Ares, yet Percy managed to beat Ares..."

While you don't exactly say that Percy defeated Ares, you consider this a error nonetheless. Honestly, Percy defeating Ares is something that we will never be able to agree with, since everyone will have different POVs of the fight, like mine or yours....