User blog comment:MattShadow/OC vs OC (September 2013)/@comment-2045351-20130926210428/@comment-5879271-20130926214704

Max's powers don't cause much drain, simply because most of them are simply inherent. And Max can summon a new warrior for every one Cal dispatches with the energy drain being like...a couple of squats. She'd be able to cause enough distractions to get a good cut in.

And it doesn't matter how fast his reaction time is, or how much he tries to feint, becouse Max can match it or see it coming. And Cal would also have to open himself up to an attack when he attacks so...that argument is kinda null for both of us.

And, on top of it all, Max knows the properties and how to use any weapon she's reasonable close to, so she'd know his sword would turn her to stone if it cut her, and would modify her fighting style to encompass that fact.