User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 475: Dimaria Chronos Yesta, Review./@comment-27792306-20160229222400/@comment-7418318-20160301003559

She said her transformation boosted her predictive ability sure, but does it?

This was the very first time she used her predictions since the second timeskip and to me it seems even less in magnitude than literally every single other prediction she's ever made. She looked into the future at most two seconds, too little to both save Wendy and not get hit.

How is that a boost over looking days into the future, or hell even predicting what Macao and Wakabe were about to say 30 seconds ahead of them speaking?

And no, kicking down smallfry is NOT better than doing nothing in her case, because fighting against anything but the most basic enemy (against whom her help isn't needed) is only going to get her killed. And I'm not even speaking of Spriggan tier here, but of regular mage tier. As I said literally any mage who's ever gotten a name is stronger than Carla even in her transformation. Toby, Beth, Nab, Max... they'd all beat her in short order.

But not fighting does not equal doing nothing anyway. She could either concentrate on making predictions or she could carry someone to increase their mobility. One or both of those things would be of far greater value to the fight than kicking a few fodder soldiers down.

Take for example her saving of Wendy. If she had been attached to Wendy's back like she used to do before she learned transform, she could have just dodged the attack together with Wendy and neither would have been hurt, but instead she's dying now. How is that better?