User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 357: The Nine Demon Gates, Review./@comment-4489126-20131025131800/@comment-24066070-20131025182753

About repetitiveness, all chars are repetitive if you look at it. Natsu always uses the same techniques as well, eats something to get a power-up, speeches about nakamas and beats the big bad bully. Erza always uses the same armors, Lucy the same spirits, etc etc.

Still, I think Laxus would be one of the three FT members who could possibly beat a Demon gate as they are now. The others would be Makarov, since he's a WS and just really powerful and the other would be Natsu with his nakama-power boosts, Lightning Fire Dragon Mode and just his sheer inability to be beaten when it really matters.