User blog comment:Lucy Heartifilia/Battle Of The Ace's/@comment-41.43.113.129-20120712195024/@comment-3290324-20120712195537

No...Laxus is far behind. No offense to Laxus, he's one of my favorite characters, but Gildarts is on an entirely different level than all the other S-Class Mages. I see them getting to Gildarts level one day, but for now, he takes the cake. Makarov of course can still beat Gildarts's ass.