User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail 362 Rant : WTF ? Happy surviving a nuke/@comment-4829046-20131129173042/@comment-7418318-20131129174232

Nope, actually I agree with him.

The entire way Jackal's attacks were constantly rendered useless against Natsu makes it look like Jackal was just using a bit more intensive fireballs, rather than actual explosions.

If he had used "real" explosions, Natsu would have taken damage from the shockwaves and all, but he didn't. Maybe that's just Mashima not paying attention in physics class though...

And the points about Horologium getting the explosion out of the way (Kakashi style?) or Wendy blasting Jackal into the air are definitely sensible.