User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 324: The One Who Closes The Door, Review./@comment-4047931-20130324131002/@comment-5668006-20130324164052

I'm sure by now all of you know I was going to disagree with most of this =)

I do agree with Misk, if Natsu loses, Lucy will die. There is 0 percent chance she could escape from Rogue. He found them in the castle and swallowed a militia just to get the shot at killing her, which in all reality he succeeded in killing a Lucy. If future Lucy wasn't there Lucy would be dead. Now, one of my initial thoughts was "If F. Lucy was fast enough to take the dagger, why wasn't present Lucy fast enough to just move out of the way?" Oh yeah I just remembered, she isn't very useful at this point yet but I digress back to what we're talking about today.

Earlier some others already brought up the whole "rogue should be stronger because he's from 7 years from now and lives in a world ruled by dragons"

Living in a world where you are the 10% or survivors does not mean you are strong, being able to survive realistically only takes wits, not strength. Hell, present Laxus, Jura, Natsu, Gajeel, Jellal etc are all stronger than present Rogue AND present/future lucy. However, look who survived the future, the weak as hell characters. Rogue survived because of his defense abilities aka his ability to literally turn into a shadow therefore he can hide well. Hiding/surviving does not = strength no matter how you slice it. If he were able to THRIVE in this world ruled by dragons then that would mean he is strong. He wasn't enough to save his friends then and even though he has 7 years, we can't automatically assume time = growing "strength"

If Natsu loses, he will also die. Do you really think this rogue would let Natsu live after he defeated him? Rogue at this point is fueled by the will to save his friends and the rest of the world. If he is willing to kill Lucy, he is willing to kill everyone except his friends to get that job accomplished.

Either way, Natsu will win, we all know it. We just have to look at it from the logical point of view which is that if Natsu dies, Lucy will die, Loke will die, Lily will die etc. This current Natsu should be strong enough to beat F. Rogue. If the shadow that possessed Rogue was indeed F Rogue, that means Gajeel beat F. Rogue (although that's another debate and I don't think it was F. Rogue.)

If Natsu isn't strong enough to beat F. Rogue which would only make sense if Rogue could swallow Natsu like Rogue just did to like 30 people (lol) then Jellal will show up in time and there shouldn't be a question as to whether or not Jellal could beat F. Rogue or not. The other option is Natsu in DF. The DF that rogue and sting achieved is not even real dragon force which is why Natsu beat them both. Neither of them developed scales like Natsu did when he achieved dragon force, neither did any of their aura change into that of dragons like natsu's did. It is because they were able to activate their power up of their own will using a lacrima vs using ultra strong magic like Natsu did during both of his DF power ups. If Jellal can show up and give Natsu that golden flame again, he will shit on Rogue and his shadows. I'm pretty sure Zero and his Genesis Zero is greater than Rogue shadows considering by everyone's logic age = strength etc, Zero was much more experienced and aged than even F. Rogue therefore should be stronger right? =p

Moral of the story is, Natsu will win, those are the reasons why.