User blog comment:B214/Jellal and OPed characters should appear less/@comment-24039250-20140903024407

The reason why Natsu did better against the Dragons than Laxus was because of Atlas Flame, also Laxus was fighting Atlas and magic doesn't really affect him (hell even a dragon roar from Motherglare didn't affect him). We haven't really seen much of the fight against Zilclonis so we can't say how that went (tho the anime is making Laxus look a little weak)