User blog comment:Kiraofthesky/Mavis/@comment-29693708-20160915073839/@comment-7418318-20160915081252

Zero combat experience?

We saw her fight in Zero and then there were several wars in which she participated. Sure as the overall commander she should have stay behind the frontlines most of the time, but I'm sure she had to fight at some point or the other, especially before people outside of her own guild started to listen to her. FT was a small guild after all, so every fight-capable individual would have counted.

I also seriously doubt she'd develop battle-spells just to stit back and never use them. If she was like that, she'd only have Law and maybe Sphere as a defensive move but certainly no Glitter.