User blog comment:General MGD 109/Who's the strongest demon/@comment-4628856-20130721224336/@comment-5619706-20130723131112

That's a bit of an unfair assessment, though. It would appear Lilith also did not fear angels, she was more annoyed when dealing with them (The Monster At The End of This Book). If she was actually scared, then she was doing a hell of a job actually breaking several seals right under the angels' noses! Only an archangel scared the crap out of her--because she was made by one, she could easily be undone by another.

Here's two reasons why Lilith doesn't seem as intimidating as Azazel, thus prompting many people to believe she isn't as powerful as Azazel:

i) Most of Lilith's activities were off-screen, especially the breaking of the seals. She appeared in like 4 episodes, not counting Dean's hallucination? With her first appearance being less than a minute? And her debut season riddled with writers' strikes? That's another factor on why she did not seem to have displayed unique capabilities. However, if you think about it, each of the seals required different feats of spellwork and killing of beings/ceatures, etc. Although Alastair helped, most of the broken seals were attributed to Lilith. Also note that a demon as powerful as Alastair (could hold his own against angels, was highly resistant to the knife and other demonic weakness, has the infamous white light) is powerless against Lilith's commands (Death Takes a Holiday). One could only imagine how Lilith could be even more powerful to boss Alastair around.

ii) Confrontations against Lilith made her appear weak because she couldn't use much of her powers against Sam. But that doesn't mean she didn't have any, and that she was weak. Her interactions with Sam are loaded with limiting factors for her, whereas Azazel's interaction with the brothers usually isn't.

When you think of i) and ii) together, they could actually apply to Alastair as well. I think that is why some people also thought Alastair was more powerful than Lilith, because we never saw Lilith go toe to toe with an angel and attempt to expel it, we did not see her get stabbed by the knife and chuckle, etc. And yet, all dialogues would always imply/indicate that Lilith outranked and was more powerful than Alastair.

Following the logic presented by Knights of Hell, these knights were touted as very powerful because they were very pure and among the first fallen. Therefore, it could only be logical for the Lilith, being the very first demon, to be the most pure and the most powerful of them all.

It's like the Leviathan complex. Great on paper and theory, but not really handled exceptionally to show the point.