User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 444: Emperor Spriggan, Review./@comment-24546844-20150713134245/@comment-7418318-20150713204732

Mest having fights where the odds are against him isn't much of an argument.

Lucy get's into fights with all the odds stacked against her all the time too and still pulls through most of the time. Even her very first serious fight is already agianst someone with the perfect anti-Celestial Spirit Mage magic in the shape of Sheria's puppet magic... but she won.

That Mest is a support/infiltration specialist though is a good argument. Not everyone has to be a front-line brawler and his magic proofed immensly useful several times already, like manipulating the entire magic counil after the GMG!!! Or saving Wendy and Carla from dying in the first Face's explosion. Or in this very chapter by teleporting them all to Angel.