Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170602033139/@comment-25155763-20170918142929

Ea225225 wrote:

VishwaUser wrote:

Ea225225 wrote: No, Nico should be in Tier Four, he's no where near as skilled as Jason, Percy, Frank, and Hazel. ...

Also Piper should be higher ... Also Hazel should be higher as well ...

Tier One: Thalia, Frank, Reyna

Tier Two: Jason, Percy, Annabeth

Tier Three: Piper, Hazel

Tier Four: Nico

Tier Last: Leo Could you explain why you think Piper or Hazel are more skilled fighters than Nico? Nico managed to fight hundreds of monsters at the House of Hades, with one hand (holding the Scepter of Diocletian in the other) and emerged practically unscathed.

Piper managed to fence with a giantess (Periboea) one-on-one. However, Nico was also able to stun the giant Orion by tearing his bowstring and breaking his nose, in a brief skirmish in BoO.

Hazel is not really shown doing amazing sword-fighting in the later books of HoO. Her skill is in cavalry-fighting, fighting while riding Arion. So she can't be directly compared to Nico. Also, Hazel admitted to being impressed the first time she saw Nico fight. Piper is a much better fighter than Nico. Piper going toe to toe with a 20 foot giantess is much more skilled than Nico slicing Orion's bow. Piper, in the span of about few weeks, was able to single handedly defeat an army of Stymphilian birds. That's crazy, and what's crazier is that she never trained with her dagger, Katropis in Lost Hero, but still defeated an army of Earthborn. So love or hate her, Piper is an exceptionally talented fighter. Hazel was even the who trained her, so Hazel is even more skilled than Piper. Also Hazel even said that Nico was no fighter, she and whoever was 'impressed' with Nico, was probably impressed because it was a big step up for Nico's usual skill level. Nico not a fighter because he prefers to lurk in the shadows, but hist actual skill is FAR above Piper's. Orion has superhuman senses specifically targeted at demigods, so not only did Nico slice the bow at incredible speed, he did it before the giant on par with Artemis had enough time to stop him.

On the other hand,Piper beat a giantess who she was 'made' to defeat(as her Mother's bane), who was barely existent in the original titanomachy and she did it relatively slowly, taking at least two direct hits. She also used charmspeak.