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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
Who was the AA rank who defeated Nanoha and Fate in a training exercise?
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An old lady who never made it into the anime. She's the one Fate is talking to in chapter 4 of the manga. Her job was basically the job Nanoha has now, an instructor.
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Originally Posted by DezoPenguin
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?
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Their cards specifically mention their ranks in relation to muscular power, in other words, their physical strength. It has no relation to their overall rank, and doesn't take into account their IS nor skills. By the looks of it, it is merely the same as Nanoha and Fate, purely a measurement of power and no skill.