User blog comment:EvanDude345rv5/Fairy Tail Chapter 359 Review: Fairies vs Hades/@comment-5681812-20131109202943/@comment-5681812-20131114145340

If Tempesta is really as strong as you say, then he would have defeated Laxus easily without needing to use the the poison magical attack. He wasn't really expecting an opponent of Laxus' calibre but he realized that he couldn't defeat him then. We don't even know whether Laxus was in DF mode so no one can claim that Tempesta is stronger than Laxus. That is just speculation.