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Originally Posted by Keroko
AA rank. And no, rank doesn't say anything in terms of combat expertise. You can have all the powerful nukes you want, but that doesn't help you if you have no way of getting away from a close-combat specialist. And vice-versa, you can have all the SSS ranked melee power there is, and still get torn apart if you have no way of closing into a range expert.
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Who was the AA rank who defeated Nanoha and Fate in a training exercise?
Overall, the problem with mage rankings is that what they give is not a measure of power level but a thumbnail of magical combat potential. It goes a long way towards explaining the issues when they actually go to show us the B-rank text in Strikers 1. Tests like these cover multiple issues simultaneously: opponents to defeat, ground to cover, tactical objectives to achieve. Subaru and Tia are both the same rank, but they're nothing alike in their skills and abilities and relying on mage rank to determine which of them is more useful in any given situation is useless.
Getting on to the Numbers, listed rankings are even shakier, because it's fairly unlikely that Jail snuck them into actual scheduled rank testing. Are their I.S.s factored in to determining power level (and if not, why?)? And what measure is used to determine those assigned ranks?