User blog comment:EmpyreanSmoke/Leviathan VS Archangel/@comment-168.169.25.92-20150926202746/@comment-26992577-20150928181034

Well, I think Lucifer and his 3 bothers were far weaker, however have due to their nature some increased immunity when it comes to The Darkness. If God created 5000 archangels, 10 of them extremely powerful, the rest more average like Raphael, than of course it's statistically more likely, that some of the weak ones surive, due the proportion.

If you have 5000 soldiers, but only 4 elite soldiers, with 1 elite soldier equals 100 regular soldiers, it's just more likely that despite the elite soldiers greater skills, they will all they in a big battle, just because they are so few.