User blog comment:R. Lawton/How strong are some the GMG characters in comparison to Fairy Tail/@comment-4489126-20130910233545/@comment-7418318-20130911001819

I still don't get it.

Some were helped by SO, some were helped by the training. That's both what Makarov said and how it actually was in the story.

I can see neither a lie, nor a mistake in Makarov's statement.