User blog comment:Dispelling Mage/Chapter: A Father's Job (453) - Review/@comment-27001078-20150921003623/@comment-153.91.238.254-20150923012442

Who said I was underestimating Gildarts. Unlike you guys I am actually going off feats and facts stated in the manga and not speculation or assumptions. I know Gildarts is strong, and he is most definitely one of the strongest in Ishgar but a lot of you guys like to make assumptions and overhype a character. Gildarts himself said on man occasions that he doesn't know how to hold back and Laxus was said to be close to his level back in tenrou. Then you have guys like jura who was said to be on about Gildarts level who was defeated by Laxus and Gildarts while he did beat bluenote with rather ease lets not forget that Natsu was able to beat him with one shot with no effort at all. All of these statements you make about his strength are nothing but assumptions and can not be proven yet.I go off what was stated in the manga not by fanboyig over his strength and making guesses that cannot be proven. If Gildarts did happen to do a lot of training and get a whole lot stronger(which I doubt) than that's great and that will be freaking awesome but until we actually see him in an actual battle it is nothing but speculation at this point.