User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 443: And Then, The Land Was No More, Review./@comment-24264679-20150707233244/@comment-24546844-20150708012237

First of all damn you Jak for writing faster than me. But as I've already started I will cotinue.

I guess it's okay to assume that all you said was mostly speculation.
 * I'm not sure myself but I don't remember Natsu ever tapping into God Slayer or Atlas Flames mode once after the first time. Also we don't know if he can activate Dragon Force at will and while he is E.N.D. he isn't aware of it and thus probably don't know how to tap into it's sealed power.
 * If Lucy could really summon 6-10 spirits she should have done it against Tartarus, where she could barelly stand summoning three at time. And summoning the Celestial Spirit King requires a sacrifice that I don't think she is wiling to pay again. Also your logic in star dress increasing Lucy's power and thus increasing her next summons power seems a bit absurd. And we don't know if Lucy even retained her Aquarius mode after the Tartarus arc.
 * It was stated and shown that Silver passed the ability to use Devil Slayer Magic to Gray, not that he paasse his magical power itself, so Silver's feats shouldn't be used to measure his son's strengts. And even if it could this still wouldn't mean anything as Warrod is the fourth God while the Spriggans are supposed to be as strong as the first.
 * I'll second Jak's statement on Erza. Nakagami armor isn't something to be used everytime she needs to defeat someone stronger than her, its been stated that it consumes huge quantities of magic just to wear it. Also it's still an armor with a blade, wich means it can probably be avoided by an skilled opponent.
 * I actually think that Laxus MAY stand a chance against one of the Spriggan 12 but that doesn't mean he CAN, we need to see him in action first and also defeating one still means that there are 11 others left. Also we can't count Fairy Law as an opition all the time, as Jakuho said, we haven't seen it in action many times to know how powefull it trully is.
 * We've seen mirajane use Macro once in someone who's already been afected y it before. I don't think it's safe to assume she's retained it after the fight before she actually use it again. So there's no such thing as enought said at this point IMO.
 * And well, yeah, Wendy can increase everyone's potential but that's limited and we have to assume that she will be around the others to cast her support magic and do it safelly so I wouldn't count it all the time.

While it's fine to say that we don't know how strong they are now, we also don't know how strong the enemies are. What we know right now is that every single member of Team Natsu was amazed at Brandish's magic power. Her demonstration in this chapter was just to show the extent of her powers, and she was not even shoowing signs of any effort while doing it. So "they should be able to handle themselves" isn't something I would assume right now.