User blog comment:DarkLordZeta/My Fairy Tail Ranking/@comment-188.83.232.149-20140221133124/@comment-7418318-20140223142147

I'm pretty sure Mashima didn't include Jellal and Erza in that statement.

Jellal because he was the leader of the entire island and Erza because she wasn't at the island anymore by the time Brain started to "recruit". And that the OS members are more talented and powerful than Sho, Simon, Millianna and Wally is plain obvious.

And measuring damage by how the clothes get ripped? You've got to be kidding... That'd mean that Kain Hikaru is the strongest person in the entire series, since he could turn Lucy's shirt into an almost unraveling bikini with a single hit. That was only ever topped by Zirconis making all her clothes disappear.