Board Thread:WARNING ALL USERS False Info\Spoilers/@comment-24477929-20140128145606/@comment-10280603-20140130044014

90.219.4.148 wrote: I think people expect too much of Scott because of the "true alpha" stuff. They expect him to be the strongest in the show because of it. But a true alpha is still just an alpha. It's just special because a beta werewolf becomes an alpha through having strength of character and not having to kill another alpha, and having that potential is a rare occurence. It doesn't mean a true alpha is stronger than a regular alpha, it just means they're more "pure" (is the word, I guess) for basically not resorting to killing to regain power.

Having said all that, Scott is also severely untrained. If you compare him to Derek who has been a werefolf since birth and probably was training since before he could walk, you can see Scott's disadvantage. A highly-trained beta (with alpha experience to boot) will stiil win against an untrained and unwilling Alpha. Been saying this the whole time and definitely agree. No one has ever hinted at him being more powerful with the exception of the mountain ash thing. People have just liked to go overboard with it. The only build up with it in the show was that it was special because he was going to be able to achieve being an Alpha without killing someone. No one has ever told him he was gonna be more powerful and no one ever treated him like he was going to be more dangerous than them if he became a true alpha. Deucalion was even tryning to get scott to become one. Why would he do that if he believed Scott was going to be stronger than him.