Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24510002-20170918174843/@comment-11860859-20170926151747

Personally, I think the players/teams in Ares will be much stronger than Season 1 IE and most of Season 2 IE, but I don't think it'll be ahead of FFI-at least after the prelims. Although Inazuma usually tries to make each season stronger than the last, Ares is going back to around where Seasons 2-3 are, so I doubt they'll be unbelievably powerful. I do agree with SyckInsanity that people like Yuuma or Haizaki could easily solo anyone from Season 1 IE, but if Ares is truly a year from Season 1 IE, all those characters should have some sort of buff. While they never had the experiences of Season 2-3, a year is a longer time span than both those seasons.

TL;DR-I think Ares's power scaling will be in between IE2 & IE3

In other topics, does the recent info from Outer Codes 5 & 6 combined w/ the topic for alternate EP 27 pretty much confirm that the changes in the FF are due to Japan losing to a foreign team?