User blog comment:So-Pro Warrior/Season 1-Battle 4: Battle of the Very Old but Very Powerful: Gandalf vs. Yoda/@comment-203.215.118.181-20121220141519/@comment-4484220-20121220163154

You sir, have just confirmed the theory that I was expressing ealier on. I haven't read the Silmarillion, so my only source I had on Gandalf's powers were the three (technically six) LOTR books, as well as the movies, wherein he actually didn't do a TON of magic. Yet I've been seeing people going on about how god-like powerful he is, despite how we saw him at best break a staff, desintegrate an arrow zooming at him, and shield himself from fire. Stuff that would make you think he'd concievably be able to barely hold his ground against Dumbledore for a little while. Sometimes we even saw him running away from a Nazgul rather than fighting it, or even being saved by Pippin who slew an Orc that was about to stab the white wizard in the back. Apparently he only uses his powers in desparate situations (I.E. cornered by a Balrog), which must be why we don't actually see his full power.

Although now that you've backed up this common claim about Gandalf the White being this powerful by pointing out things that he actually does in a book by Tolkein, then there is quite a lot of proof that Yoda's powers have nothing on Gandalf the White's.

Yeah, sorry So-Pro, but I'm going to challenge the fairness of this battle. I am of the opinion that this battle is unfair in favor of Gandalf the White. Who supports me on this?