User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 473: Red Lightning, Review./@comment-1248963-20160217091753/@comment-1776824-20160217211246

There's at least a logical explanation as to why Erza's flame pants allow her to win. It's because it lets her pour all her magic power into offense, as opposed to pouring it into the armor to make it work, and do all of the special abilities that it may possess. We were told implicitly that Magical Barrier Particles (or Anti-Magic Particles, which is more correct in multiple ways. I analyzed the different ways to read the kanji, and Magical Barrier Particles is the absolute literal translation. Anti-Magic is a context-based translated, of which Japanese is a context-based language) are anti-Ethernano, and therefore anti-magic. Their very existence destroys ethernano around it. If you read Crunchy, it validates the entire fight. However, their translation is also completely wrong.

In Crunchyroll's version, Wahl uses a Particle Canceler. It lacks a specific kind of particle that it is cancelling, and is instead cancelling all non-regular particles in the area, but the raws specify Anti-Magic Particles as the ones he is canceling.

The point overall is that it was a stupid retcon. This was a semi-major plot point back in Tartaros, and was the underlying reason as to why Fairy Tail declared war. And now, it was a problem that continued to plague Laxus. Magic is like chemistry. You take a smaller particle, in this case, ethernano, and craft it into something different. Since Anti-Magic Particles are quite literally anti-ethernano, could you take anti-ethernano and craft it into regular fire magic? No, you can't. What do you get when you take anti-particles and craft them together? Is it hydrogen? No, it's anti-hydrogen; it's exact opposite.

He ignored his own rules to create a scenario in which Laxus could win, which makes no sense, since the Spriggan 12 are supposed to be so powerful that they could contend with people like Laxus, and yet we have Laxus being nerfed. Meanwhile, bar August who has greater magic power than the rest, the other 11 are all around the same basic level of power. So what, now Laxus is stronger than Hyberion and the rest? He just continues to fuck with the power scaling. That's what's annoying. Had the raws just said "Ryushi Kyanseru" then I would be calling it a fantastic chapter. But it didn't, and the translating service had to slightly alter what it said because even they realized it was crap.