User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 472: Laxus vs. Wahl, Review/@comment-1153699-20160208202815/@comment-1153699-20160209100234

@NNN, Jura and Laxus were extremely close overall. X getting overwhelmed by Y and vice versa during the first minute or so doesn't necessarily mean Y (or X) is gonna win in the end. Jura had better Durability and Laxus had better Endurance. Laxus just barely managed to take the win. Of course Hiro could have certainly portrayed the fight better if he actually tried, I'll be the first to admit that. But the end result is nothing too unreasonable considering this is FT. If Laxus was getting shat on by Jura for at least most of the fight (not most of the on-panel fight which was only 10 or so pages), then yeah. It'd have been BS. But he wasn't and we didn't even get to see most of the fight. But different people see different things I guess.

You missed my point. I'm not talking about how they won. I'm talking about the end result. The purpose of those examples was to prove (or at least try to prove) that those characters won because the author wanted them to win. Where did those machines even come from? Hiro put them there to make sure Natsu wins. Why? Because he's Natsu so he can't lose. And on the few rare occasions he does, he comes back for a second round and wins. He faced characters much stronger than him throughout the series yet still managed to play the biggest role and last hit the boss.

Why did Gray win against Ultear? The strongest of the 7 Kins? Why are FT gonna beat Alvarez and Acnologia in the end? Why can't the bad guys win for once (<- Doesn't really bother me since I'm already used to it but it's still a valid question)? Pretty much because they're not FT. And like I said before, this is also a problem with many other Mangas as well. Personally, I don't care too much about that since I've already accepted Fiction =/= Reality a long time ago. But I do still want to see some good action.

I don't mind Laxus losing against Wahl (despite Laxus's.. Pretty disappointing record...). As long as he loses after an intense fight ofc.