User blog comment:KnocknickKnock/Celestial combination attacks with Lucy"s 10 zodiac keys./@comment-3424593-20140310043620/@comment-7418318-20140310192617

It's funny how you bash Lucy for getting plot-driven power-ups, but praise Wendy and Natsu for the same thing...

If Lucy getting keys was just "perks of being a main character", then the same must count for Natsu eating Etherion, Flame God Slaying Magic and Lightning Magic as well as Wendy being given Grandeeneys instruction book. If anything Wendy should pull the shortest straw here, since it was just a free gift, while Lucy had to work hard to earn those other keys and was almost killed in the incidents where she got them.

And why do you bring strategic thinking and analysing weaknesses into a debate about power growth?

And you are wrong that the only accomplishment of Lucy's is dual summoning. As I already wrote in my previous post, in the beginning she was getting exhausted after summoning two Zodiacs and that number was steality climbing, as well as the number of spirits that can come through the gate on their own will, which is also directly coupled with Lucy's magic power. And in the GMG arc, she managed to summon all ten of her Zodiacs simultaneously!

"She still needs Gemini to cast Urano Metria, so if she hadn't obtained more golden keys, there would be no way for her to pull it off in the first place." So what? Does the order of events in any way diminish her ability?

That you'd say something like this is particularly peculiar in conjunction with your comment about Gray beating Doriarte. Because Gray had insufficient power to beat Doriarte. He was only able to do so by using Silvers power.

"the others are out of her league in a 1 vs 1 battle." Again... that's not the topic here, but isn't it just natural that Lucy isn't able to beat others who've been mages six or sevent times longer than her in a 1v1?