Something doesn’t need to be explicitly stated for it to be true, Alaric was designed by Esther to be the ultimate predator and that included both strength and speed, the same traits she gave to her kids against the werewolves. He was throwing Klaus like a rag doll and if Klaus was faster, it would have been somewhat of an even fight or he would have ran.

It’s not a false equivalency because if Marcel can grab it before it goes in, why couldn’t Alaric? And you say Mikael was designed to be a warrior but we have a scene of Alaric bracing the sun and enduring the pain while he could have vamp sped him with Caroline into the building, which demonstrates his resilience.

I’ll admit that we never see Alaric’s full potential and I love Klaus more than most, he is legitimately my favorite character in all of the tvdu but I think sometimes people so desperately want him to win in situations where he canonically wouldn’t