Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27327020-20160404174206/@comment-13682699-20171112112559

Unfortunately it's not quite the same. Regardless of how you may wish to rank them, there is only one way to rank their actual power which is through those stats and knowledge of the meta, which is how I rank them. The "other" way is simply the player trying to quantify their power through encounter difficulty, which does not always show how powerful a monster really is because their offensive and defensive are tied to their emotional state. If a monster does not want to fight, they will be holding back regardless of how strong they are. Stats show the monsters actual power regardless of their emotional state, and their knowledge of the meta is applied in how their attacks may vary regardless of loading as well as how they can affect your own power or even the actual encounter menu.