Quote Originally Posted by LaZodiac View Post
Long story short it's "Skill is useless because friendship makes you stronger"

Things like that are terrible and make me long for the days when Natsu, powered with all his friends and his desire and burning passion, SURRENDERED to Glidartz, because he knew on a pure skill level he could NOT beat him.
As opposed to not an entire arc later when Erza powered up and won with the same thing?

Also hasn't Laxus been long implied to have been held back primarily because of his bad attitude. Correct that and I'd call it fair he can fight a guy like Jura.