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Who is more useful OUTSIDE of combat? The guy who can build or fix nearly anything and provide his own fire to make things, cook with, or light or or the guy who who is only good at killing things and powers can only destroy? The first obviously. That is why I ranked Leo as higher than Jason. Leo's powers are more versatile and his pyrokineses in many ways makes up for his lack of fighting skills. Or to put it another way Leo's powers are more three-dimensional/more varied/more useful in more situations. Jason's powers are more two-dimensional/less varied/less useful in more situations. That is why I ranked him sixth in my original list and a fact you keep missing.

I do not care that Jason is a better fighter than Leo. That ONLY applies in a list where power is focused on battle. And in that regard I listed Jason higher, but he is one of the weaker demigods outside of combat. Combat itself is only one situation they can find themselves in. I was focused on as many situations as possible and in that regard Jason is one of the weakest. ''First list based on all-around power both in and out of combat. Second list based on power in actual combat.'' Demigods are only in combat a small part of their time. They spend most of it outside of combat. And in that regard Jason's abilities are less useful outside of combat and the level his powers are at do not surpass that of the level of others.

Do I hate Jason? No, but after five books and what little we saw of Thalia in the previous series there is absolutely nothing about their powers that strike me as being that greater than the other major demigods. Their powers are only fancier, more overt, easier to notice. The more subtle powers of building or mist control/magic though are more useful and at the level Leo and Hazel have them at it makes them more powerful than Jason outside of combat. All I keep hearing is how awesome Jason is in battle, but nothing about how his powers can be useful outside of combat compared to the other demigods.