User blog comment:Derax-Pagani/Chapter 507: Voice/@comment-5708675-20161025153003/@comment-5303512-20161027122723

@Nick, well, it's not that simple really,

1. With Wahl, sure Laxus was not feeling too well, mostly due to the MBP, but got rid of them thanks to Wahl's magic, and that we got to see his training pay off with the red lightning, but the real cause for his death/defeat was because Laxus did not fight his proxy back in Magnolia, if Laxus had joined in the battle with the Thunder God Tribe, they might have won but either Laxus would have been caught in that explosion too or the real Wahl would have knowledge of the Red Lightning and would know to look out for it.

2. With Neinhart, it just confirms that he is one of those characters who has not physical stats and more than makes up for it with other abilities, for example, Gloxinia from Nanatsu no Taizai, his physical power level is 0 while his magic and spirit are considerably high.

3. With Bloodman, well, Gajeel is the iron dragon slayer and thus can grab hold of iron and absorb it. And this wasn't the first time that Gajeel managed to metabolize certain elements from poisons to gain strength. Could the fight have been longer? Yes but nothing else besides that.

4. Brandish was pretty much a gag moment. :P