User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 457: Naked Battle, Review./@comment-24039234-20151019192313/@comment-153.91.251.105-20151020180031

To the anon above erza and laxus may both be s class but laxus has always been stronger than her and at least 1 tier above her so erza shouldn't be up the strength level of these guys especially considering that jura who is the 5th ranked ws was said to be able to take on both mira and erza together and still win and the Ws above him were said to be miles beyond his strength level and the spriggan are hyped to be even stronger than them. At this point it's more believable if laxus was to beat a spriggan 1 v 1 (even though even he shouldn't be able to beat these guys that easily and should come out of the fight severely injured) than erza since he has always been stronger than her. You can argue with me all you want on erza being on his level but we've known since the beginning of the series that erza has never been quite on his level and that she is still not on his level.