User blog comment:Omega natsu2/Fairy Tail Zero: Dances with Blades, Review./@comment-4829046-20141023131019/@comment-7418318-20141023190139

They did have Ivan for a while. Sure he was nothing compared to Laxus, but then Laxus is just OP.

I guess Ivan might be around the level of the Elemental 4, who were lauded as being oh-so-strong... but really weren't compared to the current Fairy Tail generation. The scale of his illusion and his ability to hide even the feeling of magic within it during his fight against Laxus was quite an amazing feat in my opinion.