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>Their combat stats do not reflect that!

I did say "supposed". The monsterpedia entries for watiels (and the chef and maid angels, who incidentally have pocket castle dialogue about it) note that despite being low ranking, they were given a disproportionate amount of power as a result of being favoured due to being cute.

Holmiels were created with the intent of taking the cute design and making it a higher powered high ranking angel from the get go.