User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 440: God Serena, Review./@comment-26389992-20150615123219/@comment-1153699-20150621093044

Jakuho -> 1) But still, there's a clear difference between saying someone is strong while grinning to saying someone is strong with a shocked face.

If Makarov's feats were better, I wouldn't have doubted his strength. But after seeing how poorly he performed compared to people like SO Erza, Laxus and Jura, and after seeing his reactions at people like sheathed Kagura and Pre-SO Erza, I can't help but think he's not at the level of SO Erza tiers. And definitely not on the level of people like Laxus and Jura.

2) But writing "gone like a fart in the wind" in doesn't change anything... When they need to be accurate in their translations, they don't insert their own words (iirc) and are at the very least just as accurate as MangaPanda while providing much better quality. So yeah, I'll take MangaStream any day of the week.. (although Crunchyroll's translation is obviously the most accurate..)

3) I've already agreed to disagree on this point, but... Laxus's jaw dropped when he saw Jura one-shotting Orga and Erza trembled when she saw Hades's power. So characters like them do lose their cool when they see someone who they think is really strong.

4) I'm looking at this image -> http://img4.mangasee.co/series/FairyTail/0320-014.png

Ooba did say during your guild's absence but she wasn't referring to Makarov specifically like you stated a few posts back...

5) I'll believe Makarov has a counter for Gravity Magic when I see it.

With Makarov's experience he should have expected something like that happening. But he didn't. And even after he saw Aria behind him, he failed to react. -> Another reason why I think Makarov doesn't compare to SO Erza tiers and above.

Bluenote's Gravity didn't work on Natsu because the latter was a lot stronger than him. I dunno if the same can be said about Kagura and Makarov. Besides, her Gravity Magic doesn't have to fully work. If it slows Makarov down in any way, it would still benefit Kagura (she doesn't really need to use Gravity Magic against Titan Makarov since he's already slow and she's already fast so it doesn't really matter if he has a counter for it or not..).

And why would Kagura use Gravity on Erza? She was already easily whooping her ass without it.

6) Agreed.

7) But he couldn't see Evergreen's attack and therefore couldn't dodge or defend himself like he would if wasn't blindfolded.

8) Hades had much more MP than Makarov had, and yet no one claimed he had immeasurable MP (as far as I remember). He kicked him around as if Makarov was a little kid or something. Makarov couldn't even touch him. Laxus, Jura and SO Erza should be stronger than Hades (without his regeneration at least) given the huge boost they got from SO, 3 months of intense training and 7 years of casual training.

Is Makarov's MP immeasurable compared to the 4 Ishgal Gods as well? And Acnologia and Zeref?