Originally posted by Bouboumaster
Batman would get mauled by anyone in team 1 with one shot. And Ronan is leagues above Aquaman. Being the weakest member of team 1 don't mean that he's feeble: it means that team 1 is stacked to the bone.
Ok, you seem to be overlooking these are in addition to stronger members. That is to say, the people on team 1 won't be concentrating on them if they know what's good for them.
Someone doesn't need to be as strong as their foe if they're merely helping out. By definition, it's not one on one.
And seriously, against who someone like Surfer would have trouble?
Team 2 can afford to stick two herald-levels on him and still have strong people on every other opponent. Let's say Wondy and Kyle. Together. At once.
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But most of their pile-up crowd isn't really up to the task.
Here's the thing about a pile-up crowd; If you have collective power to hold someone off, they don't need to be individually on the same level, especially if you have a high meta up front to take the brunt. That's the point of a pile-up.
Tehre is also the matter of weakness exploitation.
Of which only two of the JLA's herald types have significant ones, and due to superior numbers and teamwork they are quite good at defending against weakness exploitation.
The JLA has more fighters who are powerful than the Annihilators do, meaning they can pin down someone who's trying to exploit weaknesses and put someone else against them. This is standard JLA procedure. It's even been called standard procedure on-panel.
They'll have more room to think, more room to pick foes, because they simply have more people period. Every Annihilator will always have someone in their face, while the JLAers can do that, and have people floating around to switch out JLAers in trouble or take back-shots. A back-shot from Zauriel will hurt most Annihilators considerably.