User blog comment:RandomWikiaEditor/What do you think about Episode 139?: Critics Party Room/@comment-3555799-20120716001524/@comment-4829046-20120716155437

Yeah I don't think he is rated according to his power .According to the episode his only attack spell was the divine arrow and according to Dan he doesn't use it against people. So it is the fact that he can defeat magic users very quickly that makes his fighting style so powerful. This has a bit of the Vanish brothers in it. remember how they gloated that because of their physical strength, Magic users who hide behind spells are powerless? And Natsu was the first person to ever defeat them, so that tactic didn't work so instead the anime team disabled the use of ANY magic so it is martial arts only.