User blog comment:MarineroLelouch/Power Ranking and Classes./@comment-112.208.53.170-20140212003052/@comment-7418318-20140212142414

"The problem is you're comparing Preskip Racer to a Postskip Gray"

Let me re-post a sentence of the first post that I was answering to:

"Racer at Preskip was beaten by the combined effort of Gray and Lyon, he should at the very least on their level Postskip."

So yes I was compering pre-timeskip Racer with post-timeskip Gray and Lyon, because I was answering to the anon who did so first. Besides with him being stuck in prison for all this time I doubt Racer has grown any more powerful.

Remember that in the manga we didn't have the slightest indication of Racer getting the same magic he got in the anime-only filler arc. But even within the anime it's most likely that he lost that magic again. ROS stressed pretty badly how they only got their new powers by sacrificing something, so most likely they lost those new powers when they regaind that sacrifice. Racer sacrificed his Humanity or personality, but got it back after his fight with Mirajane. If they could have so easily gotten those powers without sacrifices, they'd never have to sacrifice anything in the first place to get them.

Apart from that why do you berate me for making that comparison, only to also make it yourself one paragraph later?

"Racer has his motorcycle magic, I doubt Ice floor would make a difference." Did you ever try to ride a motorcycle on ice? I wouldn't recommend it.

And I'm not saying Racer might have ended the battle earlier with his knife, but quite frankly it's irrelevant for this blog. Any regular person is capable of slitting someone's throat with a knife (from the purely mechanical side anyway), so Racer being able to do that can't have any impact on ranking his power as a mage.

And as FTGM already pointed out, Erza isn't just using a regular sword that she carries around all the time. Her swords are magical, but in a way that still require Erza to "fuel" them with her own magic power.

Yes Racer's knife is the same as Lucy's whip, but then I never said that Lucy's skill with her whip should be part of this ranking, because I think it shouldn't be. And I'm pretty sure that it wasn't her skill with the whip that made MarineroLelouch put Lucy into the A-Class.