"You know, Heroine, you would have been a truly formidable enemy if you had joined forces with other heroes, or if you had come to face me along with at least two S-Rank teams."
This is a fact, two S-Rank teams with her would have forced me to fight seriously. The thing is, not just anyone can have a mixed fighting style between magic and combat, because having both is difficult.
So much so that most people only choose one path, like Director Akari, the strongest mage in humanity who knows nothing about hand-to-hand combat to the point where her general combat abilities are null, she only knows how to fight with magic.
Vanessa falls into this same category, she is a complete mage, so for her to fight against a hand-to-hand combatant is difficult, and it gets even worse if the combatant is like me, who is also good at magic.