User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 475: Dimaria Chronos Yesta, Review./@comment-27792306-20160229222400/@comment-7418318-20160301095024

"this gives her more combat abilities"

My hole point is that she should stay out of combat to begin with, since her non-combat abilities are far more useful, just like I think Wendy and Chelia should stay out of the battle and use their entire magic power to heal the wounded. On the battlefield one small-fry-beater more or less will not change anything. But having someone predicting the enemy movement can mean winning or losing the war. That's where she can do the most good so that's where she should be. She is the only person with prescience, but she's far from unique in her combat abilities.

"I think your only problem is trying to compare her to top tier wizards"

How am I comparing her to top tier? Are Toby, Beth, Nab, Max, Lisanna and Romeo top tier to you? That aside, the moment she stepps onto the battlefield she can't know who she's going to fight... well actually she should be able to thanks to being able to see the future, but she clearly doesn't, so in the end she's again gambling with her life, prepared to waste her unique talent for little to no gain in return. If I was Makarov, I'd pair her off with Warren, so she can predict enemy movement and he can connect her telepathically with whoever needs adivse or warning. While no named character have died yet, there were loads of no-name mages killed. Imagine how many of those deaths could have been prevented with Carla looking into the future and giving out warnings.

"It doesn't matter what you or I think, if she says she got better with her precognition powers then that is what it is, why would she lie?"

She so far utterly failed to predict anything at all since she learned transformation, save for this single split-second decision to save Wendy.

Back when she only had her cat-shape she predicted much of what happened in Edolas years in advance (even though she mistook it as her orders). She felt the impeding troubles on Tenrou days in advance and she was able to predict something impactless and unimportant like a meaningless conversation between Macao and Wakabe.

And now? She failed to predict Brandish's presence on Caracole Island, that the Island would be shrunk to fist size, she failed to predict Ajeel's presence or extend of his abilities, she failed to predict a freaking invasion with millions of soldiers and all the 12 Spriggans plus a side-dish of Zeref and Acnologia for crying out loud! How is that better precogniton when she fails to predict such momentuous events that they literally reshape the state of the world?

So we're back at the beginning. She said she is better in predicting things, but all the evidence we got so far points at the exact opposite being the case. And if I have to choose between evidence and the words of a single person, I'll go with the evidence and attribute the word to overestimating herself, delusions, bravado or even outright lies.

"Even if she used her era or what ever, I do not think it would have made much difference since the laser was to fast."

She had enough time to run from where she was standing to where Wendy was standing, which was more than two meters for sure. Now if she had already been right next to Wendy, that means she wouldn't have needed to move toward Wendy and could have immediately moved out of the way of the attack. For dodging that attack just half a meter movement would have been sufficient. Even with the added weight of Wendy, it should have been no problem for Carla to move half a meter instead of the two+ meters she actually did move.

"Plus in this situation it is time magic against her, it is most likely that it has messed with Carla's precognition magic..."

Sure Ultear is "more powerful" but she has no predictive ability what-so-ever, so Ultear not seeing the attack coming means nothing and can't be used to gauge how effective Carla's ability is within the timestop.

Frankly I am surprised her predictive ability worked at all while time was stopped, but that doesn't have any meaning for the above comparison. Carla predicted the attack far enough ahead to be able to move from her position to Wendy. If the moving towards Wendy wasn't necessary, she could have instead made other movement in the same period of time, which would have sufficed to dodge the attack. And with her predicting the first one, I don't see why she shouldn't be able to predict possible followup attacks either, especially with Dimaria having lost the element of surprise that the first attack benefited from.

It also only explains why she didn't predict Dimaria's moves within the "valley of time", but I seriously doubt that Dimaris, who probably wasn't even aware of Carla's existence until they met face to face, was clouding Carla's predictive abilities ever since Natsu and Lucy visited Lamia Scale.