User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Chapter 483: Seven Stars, Review/@comment-14155342-20160508074340/@comment-7418318-20160508085348

You can't just outright say that Makarov is weaker than Laxus and Jellal.

We never got any official ranking of Makarov and Jellal (and Jose) during their time within the Wizard Saints and quite frankly we've never seen enough of Makarov's fighting to really judge him since he either easily won, refused to really fight or was stopped short by a heart-attack.

And with Natsu... it's really a matter of plot mostly. In most situations Jellal will beat Natsu, but between Dragon Force, Lightning Flame Dragon Mode, eating fire form outside forces to power up and quite frankly plot-armour, plot convenience and power of feelings... it's again not easy to just answer with a plain yes or no.

Gray? Depends on just how powerful he can get from fully utilizing Devil Slayer Magic, which he only did against Mard Geer... but it's unlikely he can surpass Jellal.

Mirajane might stand a chance, but again her fights were so non-descriptive for her true power it's hard to judge, but I think the chances for her winning are low.

Everyone else in FT, including Gajeel has pretty much no chance.