User blog comment:CNBA3/Fairy Tail Civil War!/@comment-25324252-20160406051931/@comment-5894890-20160406154224

Honestly I think you're overestimating Gildarts, or underestimating the others. Sure Gildarts is a beast, but current Laxus can definitely hold his own against Gildarts, probably not beat... but can put up quite a match. In fact Pre-timeskip Laxus was getting up there (though his fight with Wahl was meh). (Example: Gildarts beats Blutenote, Laxus holds his own against Hades. Btw, Natsu's 1 hit KO on Bluenote was BS).