User blog comment:B214/Gray power up analysis/@comment-24546844-20141214133817

I guess the problem that I have isn't with the Slayer magic per se, but the way in which he received it. I can't really think of any other time in the series when a magic was passed from one person to another but Gray just received it from Silver after a hug. Some people argue that it's because their magic is compatible or because they're father and son but that still makes no sense.

About his fighting style we've know for some time that most Slayer magics are suited for purelly offensive so it's more or less understandable that Gray would take the full potential of it right away. Why use creativity when you can just OHKO anything that stands in your way? It's more or like playing a rogure deck in Yu-Gi-Oh!. It's funny, trollish and you can score some wins but in the end you can just use some meta deck and stomp every other deck. Yes, this sort of kill one of his most interesting traits but to be fair it fits his power-up. Once again the problem here instead is that he already know how to use these new powers to the fullest.

In my opinion the IDS magic should be temporary, and, when all of this end we could see Gray training to obtain it once again and this would be good enough as this time he would get it the right way. And he would stop being repetitive as there would be no more Tartarus to destroy.