Originally posted by Stoic
At the same time we can't really say how much power the Spectre was exerting against Marvel, the only thing that we do know, is that even after Marvel was super amped, he still lost. So logically when he had no amp he was less than he was with a major amp. Just think about it for a moment.
Yes, but we saw the kind of fights The Spectre went through that entire event. He may not have been exerting himself intelligently for many fights and he definitely wasn't fighting subtlety with his power, but it'd be ridiculous to just ignore the validity of the fight.
The Spectre approached most of those fights using his power as a blunt instrument and he had no real issues taking care of the likes of Blackbriar Thorn, Phantom Stranger or Doctor Fate. But he even verbally spoke how he would have to work at beating Billy because of all the primal magic inside of him.
The next time they fought he favored subtlety over power and just reverted Billy to human form instead of getting into another knock down and drawn out fight.
And even if you want to ignore that, he has some really good durability feats. Like when that tesseract bomb turned every atom of him inside out and right side in. He was visibly in agony but he could still take part in the subsequent fight and mentioned how he was probably the only one who could have survived that.