User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 472: Laxus vs. Wahl, Review/@comment-3424593-20160208143435/@comment-7418318-20160208184515

So much for his motivation, but that still doesn't change the point that he's just rushing into his suicide, which won't help anyone. Not the "victims" nor him nor anyone else in the conflict.

As a matter of facts getting himself incapacitated or killed by fighting a hopeless battle on his own will most likely leave the others to face Wahl or other Spriggans without his support and thus will be detrimental to the war effort.

Which brings me back to my original point that his decision is monumentally stupid and arrogant.

I'm not even saying he shouldn't face Wahl, but she certainly shouldn't do it on his freakin' own. Swallow your stupid pride and switch on your brain for a moment Laxus. This is about the whole freaking continent for crying out loud! Isn't that more important than your stupid hurt pride?

At least Natsu made his monumentally stupid decision to face Zeref on his own out of the reasonable conclusion that cutting off the head will weaken the entire Empire instead of some selfish ego-trip. And flimsy as Natsu's chance for victory against Zeref was, it was still miles ahead of Laxus' chance to win this fight.

Not to mention that Natsu is known for being stupid at times, while Laxus is supposedly smart and collected. Here he's neither. So either he wants to go out on a blaze of glory, instead of slowly succuming to the effects of the poison, or his brain took some serious damage from the particels.