Herc wasn't seriously fighting either.
And yet he affected the Hulk. Whose durability, as noted by Wolverine, was higher than ever.
And now, he's actively trying to fight, and has super speed. Speed which enabled a relatively borderline human (I think QS is at tops, class 5? I dunno, but def nowhere in the region of Her) to knock the stuffing out of the High Evolutionary.
Who just a few panels earlier, was no selling and literally tanking a pissed off Rogue who had an amped WM powers too.