User blog comment:FTWinchester/Power Scale Musings/@comment-3481504-20130224034857/@comment-3045936-20130225005157

But, who is to say that Raphael cannot do the same? Just cause, he never did reality altering, conjuration, etc doesn't mean he can or cannot. Like, Lucifer never did reality altering and is confirmed to be able to, when he stated that he tought Gabriel all his tricks. Like, well some Archangels have different powers, like with the elements. (Michael fire, Lucifer ice, Raphael lightning, Gabirel unknown.) I mean, can we please get over, whom or who is better or stronger? The reason, I place in THEORY Raphael above Gabirel one Raphael shown more large area destruction than Gabriel. And cause, Raphael is older. And despite having flaws and exceptions, the age equals power is 70% correct most of the time.

Also, here is something most forget. Even, Gabriel had limits to his reality altering, when against Lucifer he couldn't just use it on him directly. And, even Kali, he couldn't just 'snap' his fingers and release them from her spell.