User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail 521: The Strongest Wizard, Review/@comment-4449950-20170211092738/@comment-25111584-20170211094544

Nope, editor thought 6 would be enough, Mashima wanted (and got) 12.

But August should know about Gildarts' Magic and have a counter... I mean, in August's case, it's not, "That counter is such an asspull," but rather, "Why doesn't he have the counter to this Magic?"