User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 447: Escape Battle, Review./@comment-26451407-20150805081453/@comment-25324252-20150805183525

Sure if Gildarts didnt train at all then Natsu and everyone has surpassed him, but WHY THE HELL WOULD HE NOT TRAIN AT ALL. This is a guy who lost limbs to Acnologia, he has wanted to defeat Acnologia since then. So what? His thought process is "I lost to Acnologia, I must defeat him, therefore I will never train again and never get any stronger and that will be the key to victory!" Yeah no, Gildarts is still the strongest in the guild aside from possibly Natsu due to Natsu being E.N.D and all