Board Thread:The Heroes of Olympus/@comment-29729973-20170602033139/@comment-29729973-20170816063804

But the thing is guys, Jason got a different weapon, he only got his gladius for 6 months, while Percy has trained with his weapon for 5 summers, but Jason was still able to match Percy in combat. Yes, I'm not trying to underrate Percy's swordplay, he's only trained for a few months in Sea of Monsters, and was still at the time regared as the best swordsman in Camp Half Blood except for Luke. But Jason had less time to train with his gladius than Percy did with Riptide and STILL match him. So really. . . Jason is more skilled than Percy. Not to mention that Jason has more versatility than Percy, since he is also skilled with a spear and a pilum, and as much as Percy is skilled with his sword. . . he's ONLY skilled with his sword.

But really I think we are all underrating both Piper and Hazel's skill. Just think about it, Piper never had any training in Lost Hero with her knife. . . but was still able to defeat several Earthborn, and she only had several weeks with her training with Hazel, but she still was able to defeat an army of Stymphilian birds by herself, and just look at how much skill Hazel must have had to teach her to be so skilled.