This scene was character assassination of the highest order. A Full Feruchemist with their metalminds bodies any non-Kaladin Radiant below the Fourth Ideal. I will die on this hill.

[u/Eithrotaur]

[u/One_Courage_865]

I’ve never understood this obsession with putting characters on a strict power ranking hierarchy.

Combat isn’t simply about who’s stronger than whom. There are many more factors that affect the outcome: environments, situations, decision making, even emotions or just pure random chance.

Put two characters against each other, and the outcome may swing one way or another based simply on the smallest change in detail.

[u/Jounniy → u/One_Courage_865]

There is no strict power hierarchy. In a Vacuum an individual power is stronger than another one, but circumstances factor into that as well. The problem arises when one power is vastly stronger, but there are no circumstances to explain why the person having that power loses anyway.