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Originally Posted by CatRules
Magicians fight by exploiting weakness of enemy magicians. General Magicians are all-rounders, so they have few weakness. BS magicians, however, have lots of them and they can't help themselves when face with their specific counters.
Yes, BS mages are powerful in their specialty but they have more weaknesses than common mages and if their enemy exploit them, they will die very quickly.
Just to remind you, Magicians are weapon and weapon that have limited use or can be destroyed easily, albeit powerful, wouldn't have the same value as those more stable ones.
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true but not at the same time..... we seen in the novel that to guard against magic you use counter magic. Counter magic is a non-systematic. Most "all-rounder" magicians use zone interference and data fortification with gram demolition,dispersion,far strike and other being of such high skill level that a very few magicians can use ,like mayumi stated when tatsuya used gram demolition that even she who was adept at using counter magic was unable of such feat.
The statement that an "all-round" magician can better protect him self then a BS magician doesn't have any logic.
Its true that BS magicians don`t have the same options in terms of spells when it comes down to battles but that does not mean they have more weaknesses then the rest since the defense is determined by how well u can use counter magic.
In case of tatsuya besides having very powerful counter magics and the regrowth ability that practically leaves no opening to exploit he also uses his decomposition magic as a zone interference(area-of-effect decomposition) which is more powerful then ZI since ZI effect is determined by how strong the attacking spell in relation to the ZI, and AOE decomposition will simply erase any spell that has a form in eidos.
The point i`m trying to make is this, the ability to use systematic magic is not directly related to the ability to use counter magic, as shown by tatsuya his systematic magic use is a c-rank but his counter magic is a rank and in case of mayumi where her systematic magic is a-rank but her counter magic beyond ZI only consists of a very weak form of gram demolition.
The only down side of BS magicians is them being specialized in one field only there's a chance that u can come across another magician that uses a magic that naturally is very resistant to his own, like tatsuya's Mist Dispersal is with Jummonji's Phalanx or His decomposition versus his Maya's magic, tatsuya won`t win because his a stronger magician but he will win because Maya's magic type is weak versus Tatsuya magic type.
To put it in lame terms like using wind versus rock, the rock will have a natural resistance to wind but if u use wind versus water then the water will have a natural weakness to wind, just because they use magic to invoke certain phenomenons that does not change the natural order of those phenomenons.