User blog comment:Lord Zeref Dragneel/Top 25 most powerful characters/@comment-25111584-20150812160455/@comment-25111584-20150813085043

For the CSK, sadly, I only have the Mard convo to work with. The two seemed to acknowledge each other as equals. That's the impression I got, at least. And if he is Mard's equal ... the recent let's-make-everybody-OP-timeskip is really bad for the old guy. I considered Mard to be a godly entity. But the same goes for Bluenote. Now, it seems like Team Natsu's powerful trio has surpassed them. That's bad news for the CSK. Let's ignore the fact that it has only been 4 days for him. An eternal being like the CSK becoming stronger as time passes seems a bit ridiculous. Mashima should have changed the convo between Mard and CSK to show that the CSK considers Mard to be a tough opponent only because there are a load of limitations on him. As that didn't happen ... CSK doesn't really seem that powerful to me anymore. ( __)/

Loke is the one whom I'm least certain about. He's an immortal CS, so he shouldn't really get stronger with time either. But it's obvious that the timeskip has been advantageous for him. How is it obvious? I ... it's ... he just ... it's just obvious! D: And I'm not talking about the first FT brawl after the timeskip!

I guess I just consider Loke to be young (he's not though) and still capable of growth, while CSK seems to have stagnated. :/

As Rai has stated, this isn't really the ideal time to guess power levels. We haven't really seen much of Erza an d almost nothing of non-FT members. On the other hand, this is definitely the most fun time to put forth one's assumptions and see just how correct one is as the story unfolds. :P The suspense is even greater because we normal ly use feats to guess these tiers, but Mashima is extremely inconsistent in this department. XD

Btw, I'll go off-topic here and state my hatred for how IDSM basically means that Gray and Lyon cannot be conside red rivals anymore. This development is so depressing. T_T ... And I'm done. /o/