User blog comment:FairyRaven/Fairy Tail Chapter 360:The White Inheritance, Review and Commentary/@comment-24066070-20131115194948/@comment-24066070-20131116085032

Lucy certainly has a lot of potential, but I think people don't give her much credit due to the fact she's often used as fan service, comic relief or hardly ever wins a fight on her own.

The author should let her beat a worthy opponent on her own, because right now she appears to be more of a support character.

The only battles she won by only using her wit or Spirits were against Bixlow and Duke Everlue and the latter hardly counts as an opponent.