User blog comment:Luffayking12/Laxus vs. Alexei/@comment-4047931-20120602174134/@comment-3290324-20120602182811

Team Natsu had 5 people but only 3 of those 5 were actually strong. And you seem to be omitting the fact that they were all COMPLETELY battle worn when they faced Hades. As opposed to Laxus who had been in no battles at all. In addition, Laxus did better? That's funny. I remember them doing around the same thing. They'd hit Hades with a barrage of attacks that appeared to affect Hades tremendously and then Hades would reveal that he was fine. My point is your statement about Alexei was a very premature statement to make given that we have no background info on him.