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Okay so here's the thing:
1. Michael is stated to have defeated Lucifer in multiple games. In Compendiums and in dialogue because it's part of Michael's basic mythology so of course it's there.
2. This literally doesn't fit with any of the games and we know that Lucifer is astronomically stronger than Michael given huge amounts of evidence. It's so overwhelming as to be absurd. To a Fake Copy of YHVH created by the Archangels' fate being itself more powerful than the Archangels, yet nevertheless weaker than true Names of God or Lucifer and Satan (SMT II), to the combined might of the Four Archangels being weaker than Metatron (Devil Survivor), to the Archangels DEFINITELY being much, much weaker than Kagutsuchi who himself is unambiguously weaker than Lucifer (Nocturne), it all doesn't add up. Not to mention SMT IV insists that Lucifer was defeated by Merkabah.
So just ignore it. At worst it's an outlier. At best it's that type of weird in-universe mythological inconsistency you're not supposed to think about powerscaling wise.
1. Michael is stated to have defeated Lucifer in multiple games. In Compendiums and in dialogue because it's part of Michael's basic mythology so of course it's there.
2. This literally doesn't fit with any of the games and we know that Lucifer is astronomically stronger than Michael given huge amounts of evidence. It's so overwhelming as to be absurd. To a Fake Copy of YHVH created by the Archangels' fate being itself more powerful than the Archangels, yet nevertheless weaker than true Names of God or Lucifer and Satan (SMT II), to the combined might of the Four Archangels being weaker than Metatron (Devil Survivor), to the Archangels DEFINITELY being much, much weaker than Kagutsuchi who himself is unambiguously weaker than Lucifer (Nocturne), it all doesn't add up. Not to mention SMT IV insists that Lucifer was defeated by Merkabah.
So just ignore it. At worst it's an outlier. At best it's that type of weird in-universe mythological inconsistency you're not supposed to think about powerscaling wise.