User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 368: The Third Seal, Review./@comment-24467372-20140126164811/@comment-5668006-20140127210820

Ok so I am not reading all of that but I did catch the part about Nick saying you missed the point of the discussion. The point of the discussion is that Jellal is NOT the smartest person in FT.

You simply are measuring the fact that he "deceived" the magic council. Well lets look at a few fact 1: Crawford also deceived the magic council who when we look at every chapter involving the magic council, they don't seem very useful. Doranbolt completely brainwashed the entire magic council into thinking a dragon invasion didn't happen and makarov in the earliest chapters constantly got FT out of trouble with the magic council. Stop looking at this with t biased opnion and fanboyism and look at it like it is.

Mavis smarter than jellal? Yes. She crafted the 3 great fairy spells and founded the strongest guild which has been the strongest guild for as long as the main members have been active. Her nick name was the tactician (or something like that i cant remember exactly)

Levy? Yes probably considering when we look at how many languages she's deciphered throughout series. Has jellal done the same? Who knows but we haven't seen it.

Other mages most likely more intelligent than Jellal? Zero/Brain considering he TAUGHT jellal about nirvana, Ultear who manipulated him, Zeref - duh he's been alive for over 400 years and is the source of all magic, Jura - probably because of his immense magical power, hades most likely because of his knowledge of so many different types of magic, Erza who was able to be mature about their past faults vs jellal wanting to die. The other wizard saints most likely especially warrod who has to be at least 150 years old.

I also noticed you mentioned "what does emotion have to do with intelligence?" The correlation is, when people have high emotions they cannot also have high logic at the same time. It is simply impossible for the brain because you can only focus on 1 thing with 100% at the same time. Also, if you look at the highest IQs across all time a lot of the greatest thinkers and in general people with high IQs are able to control their emotions much better than people of low intelligence because they can negotiate with themselves of how they logically should feel and not just what they want to feel. This is why in any fight scence usually if someone lets anger get the best of them they lose... you cannot think straight when you are emotional everyone knows that.