User blog comment:Yuri Rozu/Laxus Dreyar vs Mirajane Strauss/@comment-107.77.83.16-20160123224305/@comment-7418318-20160124012557

And Mirajane most likely learned her main magic later in life than Laxus.

If you think it through Laxus path to power was a very convenient one. He had the best starting position from any member of Fairy Tail.

He's from a line of wizards, grew up in a wizards guild and to top it off, he even got Lacrima implanted into him that vastly boost his powers. He never had to do much to gain his powers, he was just given power.

Sure he had to go through some emotional turmoil with his father, but even this turmoil was less severe than what most other FT members had to go through... so he really had it the easiest of the entire cast. It you look at all that it's not all that impressive that he ended up so powerful... more like expected.