User blog comment:ImperiexSeed/Gabriel vs Raphael?/@comment-3045936-20120624023350

I think its Raphael than Gabriel. And before any complains think of this. Gabriel used Altering Reality or Reality Warp or whatever its called, and for humans, possibly all deities but God and even angels disconnected from Heaven aka Castiel for 99% of season 5 he could like just wrap reality with his victims in it and do whatever he wanted. But I feel that against other beings of immense power he can only do Amature Hocus Pocus against other really powerful beings. As if he could wrap reality equally against all beings, he could have just used it to thrown Lucifer in his cage. Hell he couldn't use it to break Sam, Dean, and even himself from Kali's blood spell. Also, about the trickster Castiel while disconnect from Heaven broke into Gabriel's fake TV and even broke free from his control and said that Gabriel was much stronger than a trickster and needed Gabriel to directly remove him. But, I think that Rapheal at least in physical strength is greater than Gabriel. But Gabriel also could have been trying to reduce his powers to seem more like a trickster rather than an Archangel. As tricksters only really possess conjuration, shapeshifting as Bobby said they can appear as many things, teleportation and some degree of altering reality, but nowhere as power or grand as Gabriel.