User blog comment:Phoebus18/Who's strongest Dark Mage?/@comment-24066070-20131214230825/@comment-4829046-20131215061713

Same here. And I don't really care that Hades beat Makarov without healing or anything cause as far as we know, the only reason he was able to do that much was cause of the heart. Unless I get confirmation that he could've done the same thing regardless of artificial sustenance, I consider him weaker than Zero. Remember that Hades was KO-ed in the very first minutes by a weakened Team Natsu, if not for the heart he would have never gotten back up. And technically even Zero lost in that manner cause he faltered in the final moments and its an established fact that if you lose your cool, you also lose the battle.