User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 512: Sting, the White Shadow Dragon, Review/@comment-3290324-20161128163711

I don't know Misk. I kinda disagree. I thoroughly enjoyed this chapter and the fight, but I think the fight was, objectively speaking, not that great. The highlights of the fight were A) Sting not beating Larcade through Nakama Magic or any bullshit like that. Sting had an elemental advantage against Larcade and the fact that Mashima made note of that pleased me. B) Sting not beating Larcade alone, but with the help of Kagura and Rogue. If Sting had pulled out a win alone, I probably would've called bullshit, but all three of them doing their part was pretty cool to see. I couldn't stop smiling. ^___^ Now for my issues with the fight - Firstly, Larcade is a Spriggan. Even with an elemental advantage and assistance, he should be able to mollywop Sting. I know that throughout this arc, the Spriggans have been steadily getting less and less impressive, but it still bothers me when I see them get their asses handed to them so easily. >_> And what's even more infuriating is the fact that Larcade was bragging about defeating Acnologia. With Magic that ridiculous and durability that poor, the entire notion of him even lasting a moment is laughable. All in all, I guess what I'm trying to say is that while I did enjoy the fight tremendously, I can't help but feel it's because the bar for good fights has been set so horribly low as of late.

Now, as for the rest of the chapter, I'm not really that interested. I guess I'll just have to see where Mashima takes it before I make my judgement. :P