User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 483: Seven Stars, Review/@comment-5894890-20160425172253/@comment-5894890-20160426163955

Well, in my opinion, yes, Laxus held his ground against Hades, but he wouldn't have been able to beat Hades. Laxus' attacks landed and seemed to slightly affect Hades a bit, but Hades would counter harder. From what I see, Laxus should have been able to injure Hades a fair amount (nothing fatal) if they had kept on going (instead of giving his power to Natsu...). Right now, like I said, beating him would be viable IF Laxus was in top notch condition, not after what he suffered against Wahl. As for the Bluenote example... honestly, that's just poor writing from what I see. Mashima just wanted to show off Natsu's power. Statistically speaking, seeing from what Bluenote accomplished in the past, he should have been able to hinder Natsu; not the one-shot hyping material he made out to be.