User blog comment:Lambda1/Character tiering/@comment-27006668-20151019141144/@comment-27006668-20151019185828

Cain is NOWHERE NEAR the level of Godstiel. He couldn't obliterate all those demons with a snap. He had to smite them. Godstiel did that to an archangel. Cain didn't know about The Darkness. He would've mentioned it to Dean. There is no way Cain can smite any angel, let alone an archangel. If he could he would've done it to Cass.

Archangels would be able to beat leviathans even in Purgatory. Castiel was individually stronger than those leviathans.

Metatron might've been on the level of Lucifer (though this is highly unlikely) but definitely not Michael. He was still vulnerable to angel blades, and holy fire could still kill him. It couldn't kill Michael though.

How do we know Michael can't kill an archangel with finger snap smiting?

No Lucifer just didn't want to kill him, he actually says so in that episode. He only killed him in self defense. that's why he didn't just kill him with tricks. I respect you SeraphLucifer as a poster but What you said about Gabriel being better than Lucifer at tricks was highly ignorant. Gabriel would not win a battle of tricks against Lucifer. While Gabriel was phenomenal in reality warping, Lucifer taught him everything he knew, automatically outdoing anything Gabriel had ever done.