User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 470: Hybrid Theory, Review and Commentary/@comment-24546844-20160125184650/@comment-153.91.160.215-20160125224306

Gildarts was one shotted the same as God serena so he won't be much help against acnologia and plus it wasn't even a fight. Gildarts said that acnologia attacked and nearly killed him before he even had a chance to realize what happened.