User blog comment:Sargenttacos115/Why are Sting and Rouge so weak?/@comment-4829046-20131109182717

Why are they so weak? Cause they were designed to be cocky, arrogant and deluded and above all weak in conviction.(Rogue less so but he was also part of Saber so the same applied to him). All qualities of someone who is going to get his ass handed to him.


 * cough*Erigor*cough*Deliora*cough*Lyon*cough*Jose*cough*Jellal*cough*Laxus*cough*every antagonist*cough*

See the pattern? But indeed, they are far too weak. But then again, it also means that only Dragon Slayers that learnt it properly without taking a cheat-code(First gen DS) and lived their lives according to that magic are the strongest. Natsu always used fire and loved eating fire. Gajeel would eat anything metal, even the Guild utensils and Wendy was constantly using her healing. Cobra primarily used his hearing coupled with Cubellios instead of DS magic and Laxus used his own magic, not his DS magic. And I think Sting and Rogue beat up all that fodder in the beginning without having to use their DS magic too much. They like to use their regular martial arts after all. And they didn't really consume their respective elements. Sting only ate that arrow one time and just basically spit it out.

The First gen DS mages take their DS magic seriously and use it all the time.