I'm not referring to the last encounter at all because that was supposed to be the point where Nanoha already kicks more ass than Fate. I'm actually happy that fight looked as good as did. But in the first fight, like I said, it looked like Nanoha just tried to stay unharmed to talk to Fate. In the second fight Fate was hardly in any better condition than Nanoha but apparently had more willpower to go and seize the jewel (no wonder since she actually needed it for something, unlike Nanoha who was collecting them for a ferret not knowing what is even going to happen to them afterwards). After that even Chrono seemed to kick Fate's ass.

Well, I'm a hopeless Fate fan so there's really nothing you can say to convince me, haha.