>>97954850>It's been clear that gems are ridiculously inept,No, but it's something that people like to say when they're making an effort to hate everything about the show as much as possible.
>Connie being pure human so physically not comparable to gems can easily hold her own against them.Connie can hold her own against Rose's cannon robot which is presumably used for training.
Connie can hold her own against Steven, who is focused more on support abilities than offense, during a friendly sparring match.
Connie can hold her own against cluster gems, who are broken, warped, maddened, and largely not actively hostile.
Connie has not held her own against a proper Gem warrior, even with a sword that's designed to defeat a Gem in one strike. She could only fight off Jasper as Stevonnie and with Lion's help. She made no headway against Topaz. She has never displayed this impossible level of skill that some people complain about, and even if she had, it wouldn't automatically justify the noise of "Gems are so weak and stupid and worthless that their best soldiers can be beaten by random human children", as opposed to "the protagonist is a badass who's able to defeat superpowered alien soldiers" like the complainers would assume of virtually every other fictional work that has the heroes win fights.