Talk:Shokuhou Misaki/@comment-77.31.226.106-20130909151826/@comment-17714224-20131101081438

Well actually the strongest esper may not even be a level 5. The ranking system is not based on how "powerful" your ability is, but instead how "useful" your power is. The less "useful" or more "detroment" for that matter, Academy City feels your power is the less they are willing to develop it. That being said comparing this to Touma and Hamazura you can kind of see why.

Touma came to Academy City with a power that is easily the strongest but was catagorized as a level 0 becouse he also holds enough power (and the type of personality) to put a stop to their plans. Hamazura is the only person to ever F#ck up Aleister's plans to such an unrecoverable extent and the only one to P#ss him off enough to send assasins half way around the world to take his head. What ever ability he has they sure as hell ain't gonna develop it.

The only real exception to this rule are gemstones. Gunha and when it comes to his ability, they can't even figure his power out and he's useless to them, they only marked him as such to keep face. Being a gemstone they don't have the luxery of "not" devolping his power and his power's strength is impossible to hide unlike Touma's. All other gemstones were ranked reletive to the general strength of other developed espers, assuming that it is flashy enough to be noticed for example, Himagami has the ability to "bait" out an ARMY OF VAMPIRES but she's ranked rather low because it's not something likely to be seen.