User blog comment:Ncduru/Alvarez Empire Arc: Recap/@comment-1776824-20160229044607/@comment-27010145-20160229194859

@Real Godisme I understand you're trying to prove a point and I understand that you are angry, but I would appreciate if we didn't over-exaggerate (this goes for any argument). At the end of the day 4 spriggans have been defeated: God Serena, Wahl, Brandish, and Ajeel. Of them, Brandish wasn't a real "defeat"; she didn't fight anyone. Of the other three, none of them faced ridiculously weak characters who won through friendship powerups. The only fight with a friendship powerup was Laxus, but even then, for one Laxus is not a weakling's weakling, and two we don't know that it wasn't an attack he had learned during the time skip rather than a random powerup. Erza was notably weaker than Ajeel. Your point still stands that the Spriggans haven't been as advertised though. I could stand Ajeel's defeat; at the time I took it as an "appetizer" to the arc, you know, the first victory comes easy kind of thing. God Serena was defeated by someone who was obviously going to be 100x stronger, no problem there. The Brandish thing happens every arc: if you notice, EVERY arc there is someone who is "defeated" through means other than fighting(i don't think there was one for tartaros), so I could take that. I was really dissapointed by the Wahl defeat though...we still haven't seen the aftermath of that so i hope that he's not done for, but he might really well be