User blog comment:Xilinoc/Ch. 635 - Hooded Enigma/@comment-44061-20150715155754/@comment-26091912-20150717070220

"..They had to be revived and empowered to pose any sort of threat. Askins power didnt ultimately workout."

That's true. However, the same is true of Nimaiya; if Tenjiro hadn't of revived him, Askin would've ultimately been victorious. I don't really see how that's even relevant, considering it was never exactly an equal playing field to begin with; Senjumaru had lured the Schutzstaffel into the Tree of Life, which blocks the Reishi around them, so they were at a disadvantage.

You seem to be forgetting that Quincy use the Reishi around them as their main source of power, so the whole reiatsu vs. reiatsu thing doesn't apply to them as much. There isn't enough evidence to say that the power boost did anything drastic to alter the outcome; apart from automatically activating their Quincy: Vollständig and enhance their Scrift. Lille used only The X-Axis and marksmanship to kill Nimaiya, had he used it from the beginning, the result would've most likely been the same. From that alone, it suggests that the Scutzstaffel's Schrift are much more potent and devastating than other Sternritter's. None of the other Sternritter would've been able to one-hit Nimaiya like that, even with a 5x power boost. Boosting power doesn't just magically increase skill level.

Also on your point about Lille being a sniper; you said that he would be useless up close, but the same would also be true for most of the Sternritter that use long ranged weapons. As long as he keeps his distance, or bothers to actually use Hirenkyaku, it's really a non-issue.

There's a lot more I could say, but I'll just leave it at that for now.