User blog comment:Imhungry4444/What if: Hades vs. Gildarts/@comment-3061966-20111116182505/@comment-3290324-20111117032819

Gildarts is most certainly not in a class of his own. Makarov is stronger than him. In addition he couldn't have handled the Seven Kin alone. He could probably take out 3 maybe 4 since it wouldn't take anything but slight intelligence to defeat Kain, but handling all 7 would be too much, even for him. It may sound like it'd be an easy task, but the Seven Kin had combatants like Ultear and Azuma, they would not be easy to beat. Don't get me wrong, very few characters and I mean VERY few characters can touch Gildarts. The thing is, Hades is one of those select few. In addition, Bluenote was outclassed but it's wasn't by much.