User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 470: Hybrid Theory, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20160125184650/@comment-24546844-20160126123305

Well, my bad then, also Gildarts isn't a Dragon Slayer so Acnologia probably didn't bother to go serious on him or finish him off.

I can't see Jellal taking on August unless it's the whole Crime Sorciere and even then, with all the hype he received I can't see anyone matchimg August especially if his healing magic speculations are true. I'm guessing August can cast things similar to the Great Fairy Magics and Abyss Break and Sema and have better buffs than Wendy. Someone of this level can't be taken out by conventional ways, though I wonder how he would fare in close combat. Maybe he is the traditional Squishy Wizard? How anticlimatic would it be if he gets taken down in a few punchs?