User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 41: May 2015/@comment-1153699-20150602132933/@comment-25324252-20150602194243

Thats because you are a Minerva fanboy :P But yeah, I can see Minerva winning most of those. She has spatial magic. She can pop in and out of battle at a moments notice. Look at Natsu and Gajeel, they both forecast their own moves. Natsu especially always takes a moment to slowly wind up his attack. Against Minerva, thats not going to work as she will just pop out of battle and jump back in to attack. She has extremely powerful magic that made 2 of the other strongest females in the series, Erza and Kagura, pretty much a non factor. If things go terribly wrong against Laxus, she can just do what she did against Kagura, go for a surprise attack and shove a sword through his back. Laxus has no way to counter her ability to move around the battlefield and everyone seems to think Minerva has no offensive magic when we know she has a war god magic