User blog comment:SayuriDarling/The Blood of Olympus Official Discussion/@comment-24055022-20141010142159/@comment-1820614-20141018161053

I would say most minor gods are more powerful than any giant. Polybotes is supposed to be one of the strongest giants to defeat Poseidon. But he loses to individual demigods twice with the second time while being underwater against a son of Jupiter. He should have been at his strongest and Jason his weakest. All Kymopoleia was needed was to finish him off. She didn't have to use any of her storm powers at all. Storm powers which the giants have no defense against. She also shrugged off Polybotes' poison like it was nothing.

How as Polybotes supposed to defeat Poseidon then?