User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Episode 179: Gray vs. Rufus, Review./@comment-288216-20140426233755/@comment-4829046-20140427093237

Indeed if he wasn't overhyped, if he was shown to do very little actual damage in general and didn't act shocked when Gray kept getting back up, then it would have been better. And that is Mashima's fault for lacking the imagination to make his character's imagination work =P