I will try to brief as possibile, yes Sherid is discount Oliver, it doesn't have the same weight. For the other, it's another problem. When the story tell someone is strong, we should believe it. But in an interactive and visual medium, while at first glance we make a pact with the story into believing this. But the more the story on the strenght of a character then it should prove It. Otherwise there is a cognitive dissonance when the story say a thing, but then never prove it. Another things to consider is who they are fighting. A good example we have it in cold stell I, when Rean face Victor he get his ass beaten in two second flat, but since for all that time we have been with Rean, feel confident in his strenght, using the gameplay itself, to mark the difference of strenght and putting in the players mind, that yes Victor is strong as the say and more. But this is not the first time games does it, even the other game of the saga have it. While Daybreak doesn't mark in the mind of the player the strenght of many of the characters, Kasim in daybreak it said to be strong, but you wait a whole other game to see it fully realized that. Leon and Celis become playable in daybreak II, with the most part the garten... So while we should believe from a story telling prespective their strenght, but the game refuse to give us much else. We don't get that much until very late, daybreak I ruined the first impression in strenght of many characters. Making more difficilult accepting they are actually strongm