Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-24516349-20140208174350/@comment-25238518-20140921015133

While it's a coherent and fairly accurate description, only your ability cap is predetermined. Every level 5 is/was extremely devoted to improvement, as shown by Accelerator/Railgun's extreme academic work ethic. Mugino supposedly worked even harder than Railgun, but was placed below due to lack of research potential. Kakine probably has an identical upbringing to Accelerator, Shokuhou is a Tokiwadai student, which is hard work in itself, and Sogiita is a wonderful exception.

Most of the level 3's and 4's seem to express great competence as well.

On the magic side, similar principles seem to apply; saints are determined by birth, and many veteran magicians are still extremely weak compared to higher-ups with abnormally powerful magical items.

But, otherwise, yeah. Go magic!