User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 398: The Final Duels, Review and Commentary/@comment-7418318-20140901145939/@comment-25111584-20140901184104

This might get ... long.

... People complain about Laxus one-shots? Rarely. Jura wasn't a one-shot, the fight was just not shown. And I heard more complaints of how Tempesta was resurrected and Laxus was poisoned, making Laxus' win non-existent, than Laxus defeating Tempesta easily. And people do say that Laxus is close to Gildarts.

More people liked Lucy defeating Jackal than hated it, the difference was actually huge.

Erza and Natsu raw power wins used to be awesome in the beginning, they have become boring, really really to the infinite boring, to the point I almost turned hater during GMG arc (where Gray's victory over Rufus was nice, but the apparently enormous difference in their durability disappointed me), but I was saved by Jellal's Soundwave effect. Again, overusing their raw power is the only reason people are starting to hate Erza and Natsu's one-shots. If they used brains in more of their fights, like Erza vs Midnight, I hardly think anybody would have any complaints. And people were also getting bored of the Benizakura after Erza was said to possess more than a hundred different suits in her magical storage (or something like that), basically it meant she fought all tough fights using only raw strength. Quick question (if you have actually bothered reading this far): Is the armour really Armadura Fairy or is it Heaven's Wheel? Looking at the sword, the circlet ... it could be either, as somebody already commented.

Gray, on the other hand, has very few power wins, so why would you complain about him getting one? The way he got the power, yes, but that's past, like many other disappoint moments. In fact, just hating this one show of strength from Gray because all other people win only using strength seems wrong to me. Most of Gray's fights, like Nick said, are brilliantly done, Gray fights creatively and intelligently. In fact, for me, he is much more of an intelligent fighter than anybody else in Team Natsu, though he never seems to be credited for that fact. But he does have some sheer power wins, like against Juvia, Fukuro, etc. For me, the Tempesta fight was more to show how badass his magic is rather than to say that he'll now stop fighting intelligently, a brilliant debut. That is not to say that his fighting style will change to more power-oriented in the future. I will be a bit disappointed i that happens, but we shall see ...

As for the Silver question ... Well, Keith could off Silver with but a thought and Silver gets destroyed along with Keith, so, if he successfully wants to take Tartaros down, he has to take all members out at once, otherwise it's like taking down only one of Nirvana's lacrima. Silver messes with Hell's Core, he gets switched off by Keith, Hell's Core gets repaired ... and all his efforts are null. Keith can even switch him back on without Silver losing any stats. Silver kills Keith and destroys Hell's Core, Silver dies, Hell's Core gets repaired, brings back Keith ... and we know how this goes. Silver can't actually assassinate anybody significant either. One or two stray demons, sure. Best bet is for him to do in everybody plus Hell's Core all at once, assuming Hell's Core can revive everybody on it's own. Otherwise, just do in all demons. But that's gonna be bloody difficult, even for somebody on Silver's level, which I, personally, place really high. Why does Mard keep him? ... No idea. I would say that he gets an excellent and extremely powerful subordinate because of Silver's passion to avenge his family (not going to be difficult for Mard to make sure that the conditions required for Silver's plans to acheive even a tiny bit of success are never fulfilled), but that would mean that he actually believes humans can acheive something of that level, well, human corpses anyway. Still, Silver was never a threat to Tartaros, he only becomes a threat now, when his power is in the hands of his son.

Just trying to have a fruitful discussion, no hard feelings, as I will always say. ... If you actually read this far, my deepest gratitude and heartiest congratulations. Have a waffle. (>^_^)>#