User blog comment:Luffayking12/Laxus vs. Alexei/@comment-4047931-20120602174134/@comment-3290324-20120602181035

Ok, now you're being completely ridiculous. Team Natsu was also able to go "toe to toe" with Hades for a while and all of them were seriously injured and had little Magic Power left. Hades strength FAR surpasses Laxus' and the only reason Laxus (and Team Natsu for that matter) was able to keep up even for a little while was to keep the story going. Hades dominated Makarov within minutes if their fight, that alone should tell you something.