User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 41: May 2015/@comment-6152051-20150602020757

Minerva has my vote for this one. Yes, she loses in terms of brute force that Laxus excels at, but that's all to it. Like what Rai said, it is not versatile. Minerva is a tactician who isn't afraid to get her hands dirty and use her underhanded tactics to win. She can easily repel any attacks that would come to her, just like how she reflected Juvia's Wings of Love. She can switch places, she can teleport, hide in a space dimension, she can encase Laxus inside Ih Ragdo to sap away his powers, she can coat her punches with her Territory spheres to defend herself and the list goes on. The possibilities of what she can do with her space-related abilities are too many. Like what Freed said: "No matter how powerful your spells are, if they don't hit your opponent, they're worthless."

PS: Stop going ahead and state me facts about what happened in the manga, I know that. Stop giving me things like "Erza one-shotted Minerva blah blah", I know that. I don't care about manga facts. Like, seriously, fuck it off.