Talk:Mary Sue/@comment-72.234.253.225-20170403024655/@comment-84.91.84.102-20170403213851

1-on-1 yes, Mary should be considered the top mage of the war. But outside of her "PvP" skills, she lacks on everything. Once Tanya figures that Mary is able to out-fight her 1-on-1 but is not good at much anything else, she will take that information into account and avoid having to fight Mary in the first place.

Let's face it, Mary is a very dumb teenager that can be easily manipulated if you know what to say to her. That makes her somewhat predictable while Tanya is very smart and knowleable. If Mary wasn't as OP as she is, by light novel volume 7 she would be already dead, IMO. We're comparing a teenager that got the Deus Ex Machina gun to avenge her daddy fighting a very logical adult who spent a great deal of her time on this new world, studying a lot of subjects, specially military ones and who's priority is not to win the war nor becoming the war's top ace. Unless Mary or her superiors manage to force Tanya into a last-stand kind of battle with Mary, it would be difficult for Mary to slay Tanya as Tanya would rather be alive than become a legendary - but dead -  war figure.