Did You watch ss2? Cuz lelouch took over the world within a few days After actually using his power. He calculated a nuke beyond our current ones in 16 seconds with all Environmental Details taken into account.

@@A4C5-q6k Nina invented the anti-fleija and that shit worked on the first try which she stated was quite unlikely. She at least 90% of the credit for breaking into the Damocles. And from lelouch's clear nervousness, he wasn't sure he could line everything up perfectly. I just keep seeing him getting bailout after bailout. Seems he is rarely in full control, and would've lost several times over if not getting rescued by C.C. and other characters. - He doesn't manage to beat Sneiznel until the very end - nor can he beat him in chess (and from his moves, his rating is below 2500 which is nowhere near genius) - he's outsmarted by his sister Cornellia and would've been captured if not for C.C.'s distraction posing as Zero (which he no idea about) - At the end of S1, he straight up loses to his less intelligent friend Suzaku and gets his memory wiped, and would have lived out the rest of his life as a drone if not rescued by C.C. and the dark knights. Unlike Light Yagami, he did not orchestrate this by intentionally getting himself captured, he genuinely just lost until getting bailed out yet again. If the emperor was more aware of C.C., lelouch could have been thrown in a cell and never see the light of day.