User blog comment:B214/Chapter 383 Surfing Lucy thoughts and analysis/@comment-7418318-20140509140715

So Virgo is able to kick Lamy around like that, while Lisanna had to struggle mightily and ultimately still lost to the Demon.

Doesn't that mean that Virgo alone, who is far from Lucy's best fighting Spirit, is already stronger than Lisanna?

Oh how I'd loveto put that fact into the review of every single "Lucy was kicked off the team for being too weak and replaced by the Lisanna"-cliché story (or rather shove it into the author's faces)... but there are just so god-damn many of them.