Discussion Fairy Tail Power Ranking Thread

[XXEliteXXAceXX]

Things change. Since Natsu beat Jacob in the way that he did, I said he is likely stronger than Erza. Look back in my comments this week if you want. I ranked him as high as Laxus and said he might have even surpassed him. Of course you have your reasons, it because you are unsure who is greater than who. You just want to believe Dimaria is greater than the other spriggan for no reason. You are very right that Wendy would have died had she been hit in the right spot. Future Rogue used it too like you said. So that is nothing new, nothing special. Hades should have killed Wendy also with the same thing. So that laser is really nothing to brag about and considered anything special. I did not say Wendy could not have been hurt. But I did say that Dimaria's strongest attack didn't do much to Chelia. It did hurt Chelia, but for something that was supposed to be her strongest attack that wasn't very impressive. How do you think it would have gone if TO Chelia took Natsu's demolition fist? You can make up all you want that because her takeover was being undone that she wasn't at full power. Dimaria was not shocked because she have her best shot with little power left. She shit her pants knowing that Chelia took her full power pretty well. Chelia was up in her face too when Dimaria used it. When has anyone been surprised when someone takes what remaining power they have left. They are surprised because they used their full power, just like she said "Impossible! I used my full power in that attack."

So let's go about it your way. Her takeover must be crap if just hitting her is removing that takeover and taking her power away. Therefore it's a big weakness. You make up a lot of stuff in your head. I never said Dimaria could not hurt Wendy or Chelia. I said her full power did little to Chelia. Give it up already. This won't change. Your just dragging this debate on. Be honest with yourself. Nothing suggest Dimaria is greater than Jacob. Deal with it or prolong this conversation the same way you did trying to define the word "struggle" like you did before when you tried to take back what you said. Excuses is all you have.

What does Natsu have to do with this? Dimaria is not on his level. Yet, she still surpasses most FT mages.

Dimaria's God Soul shouldn't be considered weak just because it was being undone. Chelia was using God Slaying Magic with Third Origin against it... Weakness or not, Dimaria is not a fodder like Jacob. Dimaria at least caused some casualties while Jacob was all talk and hype. I said we have our opinions, so you still won't change my mind.

 

[reesestl]

My Ranking of Spriggan 12
1. August
2. Invel
3.Serena
4. Bradman
5. Dimaria
6.Wahl
7. Ajeel
8.Bradish
9.Nienhart
10.Jacob

 

[Kay3795]

Funny list all around, lacking any real bases to support the placement.

I find it funny that people even rank the unknown higher than the known WTF!

Also how the hell is Jacob losing to straightforward fighters like Ajeel, G Serena, Wahl & Brandish? Lemme answer that for you, he doesn't!
You would have to fabricate some fairytail level scenarios to make those characters have a snowball of a chance against his magic...(& you'd be suspicious for doing so).

Jacob Vs Dimaria is a toss up because the winner is whoever activates his/her magic first. If the clap is faster & the activation is quicker, Jacob wins. If the lip/teeth bite is faster and the activation is quicker, Dimaria wins.

 

[Kiki]

Funny list all around, lacking any real bases to support the placement.

I find it funny that people even rank the unknown higher than the known WTF!

Also how the hell is Jacob losing to straightforward fighters like Ajeel, G Serena, Wahl & Brandish? Lemme answer that for you, he doesn't!
You would have to fabricate some fairytail level scenarios to make those characters have a snowball of a chance against his magic...(& you'd be suspicious for doing so).

Jacob Vs Dimaria is a toss up because the winner is whoever activates his/her magic first. If the clap is faster & the activation is quicker, Jacob wins. If the lip/teeth bite is faster and the activation is quicker, Dimaria wins.

Agreed. I think so. However I have one question, can anyone help me, is Stealth able to make the user's physical body disappear (I mean the user's body can't be touched etc.)? If so, then Jacob vs Dimaria will be an endless fight Because if Jacob disappears, Dimaria can't find him anywhere even if she activates Age Seal. This battle depends on who is faster.

 

[reesestl]

Agreed. I think so. However I have one question, can anyone help me, is Stealth able to make the user's physical body disappear (I mean the user's body can't be touched etc.)? If so, then Jacob vs Dimaria will be an endless fight Because if Jacob disappears, Dimaria can't find him anywhere even if she activates Age Seal. This battle depends on who is faster.

If u want to rank Jacob and Dimaria the issue who will win in Jacob vs Dimaria. The question you have to answer is if they fight against everyone else who will have relatively more wins.

 

[Kay3795]

Agreed. I think so. However I have one question, can anyone help me, is Stealth able to make the user's physical body disappear (I mean the user's body can't be touched etc.)? If so, then Jacob vs Dimaria will be an endless fight Because if Jacob disappears, Dimaria can't find him anywhere even if she activates Age Seal. This battle depends on who is faster.

Not really an endless fight because his body is only invisible - thus making it nigh-impossible to be perceived - but his body doesn't become ethereal.

If Dimaria actives her time haxx & Jacob is already invisible; provided Dimaria's stamina doesn't deplete quickly due to her activation of Time, all she'd have to do is attack her general area until she connects with her attacks.

Now, if you were asking me who is more dangerous; I'd lean towards the Assasin because that's his forte / his profession.

He can be there but you wouldn't know it & all he'll have to do is clap his fingers & active his displacement ability and poof, you're done for.

 

[XXEliteXXAceXX]

Funny list all around, lacking any real bases to support the placement.

I find it funny that people even rank the unknown higher than the known WTF!

Also how the hell is Jacob losing to straightforward fighters like Ajeel, G Serena, Wahl & Brandish? Lemme answer that for you, he doesn't!
You would have to fabricate some fairytail level scenarios to make those characters have a snowball of a chance against his magic...(& you'd be suspicious for doing so).

Jacob Vs Dimaria is a toss up because the winner is whoever activates his/her magic first. If the clap is faster & the activation is quicker, Jacob wins. If the lip/teeth bite is faster and the activation is quicker, Dimaria wins.

What proof do you have that Jacob could beat the other Spriggans? "Hax" magic only goes so far. They always have restrictions. We just don't know it. Unless you're telling me that Jacob can send Zeref to a different dimension and kill him instantly. How about Acnologia? If you claim those are too strong for him, what makes you think that he is stronger than the other Spriggans? What you fail to understand is that those characters have feats, while Jacob has none but hype. He said he can kill all 111 members of Fairy Tail if he wanted to, but he didn't, right? Even if Hiro Mashima said he didn't want to kill off the main characters, what about the ones that are fodders in Fairy Tail, those of which we don't even know their names? As far as we know, the number 111 never decreased, so all, including fodders, still lived. Do you know if Jacob was for real and not just bluffing?

Dimaria is not any better when it comes to the restrictions of her magic. But what does she have over Jacob? Feats.

 

[Firepower]

What does Natsu have to do with this? Dimaria is not on his level. Yet, she still surpasses most FT mages.

Dimaria's God Soul shouldn't be considered weak just because it was being undone. Chelia was using God Slaying Magic with Third Origin against it... Weakness or not, Dimaria is not a fodder like Jacob. Dimaria at least caused some casualties while Jacob was all talk and hype. I said we have our opinions, so you still won't change my mind.

Truth is I misread that sentence last night, thinking you said TO Chelia is as strong as Erza, and that I said Erza is as strong as Natsu. But let's go with that anyway. What does Natsu have to do with this? Natsu beat Jacob. TO Chelia beat Dimaria. You claim TO Chelia to be super strong, therefore proving your case that Dimaria is a tier above Jacob, Wahl, and Ajeel. I bring up Natsu because if Chelia and Natsu switched places, Natsu would likely smashed Dimaria the same way he did Jacob, no god slayer needed. Meaning to say you rank TO Chelia and Dimaria higher than you should.

Am I trying to change your mind? Nah. I've already proven my point. You are unable to support your theories. Excuses is all you have left. You won't say TO Chelia is even as strong as Laxus. Instead you think she's as strong as Erza. How does that prove Dimaria is better than the other spriggan?

 

[XXEliteXXAceXX]

Truth is I misread that sentence last night, thinking you said TO Chelia is as strong as Erza, and that I said Erza is as strong as Natsu. But let's go with that anyway. What does Natsu have to do with this? Natsu beat Jacob. TO Chelia beat Dimaria. You claim TO Chelia to be super strong, therefore proving your case that Dimaria is a tier above Jacob, Wahl, and Ajeel. I bring up Natsu because if Chelia and Natsu switched places, Natsu would likely smashed Dimaria the same way he did Jacob, no god slayer needed. Meaning to say you rank TO Chelia and Dimaria higher than you should.

Am I trying to change your mind? Nah. I've already proven my point. You are unable to support your theories. Excuses is all you have left. You won't say TO Chelia is even as strong as Laxus. Instead you think she's as strong as Erza. How does that prove Dimaria is better than the other spriggan?

I wouldn't say Dimaria is a tier above Ajeel or Wahl. However, if you are talking about within the Spriggans, I would put Dimaria equal to Ajeel and Wahl, while being stronger than Jacob. Natsu shouldn't really be used to compare Dimaria or Jacob because he is stronger than both and can pretty much destroy either of them. The point here is that Dimaria has better feats than anything Jacob has shown. She was overwhelming Kagura while Jacob overwhelmed nobody. Dimaria is exceptional at CQC just like Jacob. She has "hax" magic just like Jacob, according to you. Anything else besides those feats, Dimaria would take as she has shown more abilities and attacks than Jacob. Like I said, yes, Jacob talked a lot and had a lot of hype, but again, his feats are lacking quite a bit.

 

[Firepower]

I wouldn't say Dimaria is a tier above Ajeel or Wahl. However, if you are talking about within the Spriggans, I would put Dimaria equal to Ajeel and Wahl, while being stronger than Jacob. Natsu shouldn't really be used to compare Dimaria or Jacob because he is stronger than both and can pretty much destroy either of them. The point here is that Dimaria has better feats than anything Jacob has shown. She was overwhelming Kagura while Jacob overwhelmed nobody. Dimaria is exceptional at CQC just like Jacob. She has "hax" magic just like Jacob, according to you. Anything else besides those feats, Dimaria would take as she has shown more abilities and attacks than Jacob. Like I said, yes, Jacob talked a lot and had a lot of hype, but again, his feats are lacking quite a bit.

Dimaria did that to Kagura because of time magic, no damage done. Jacob made a guild of over a hundred disappear into another dimension. He used that to get answers from Mavis. He was able to hurt her too. Plus when he had enough he was about to kill off the mages he sent to another dimension, one by one. That's when Lucy got him to stop and pull out Brandish and Marin. That hax is just as bad.

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I argued before that Dimaria is so bs because you can't fight if you are stuck in time. You can't fight either if you aren't there and in another dimension. It all depends on if a mage has time magic or dimension transporting magic.

 

[BluePegasus]

It's pretty clear to me that Di Maria is the strongest Spriggan we've seen so far.

Natsu isn't as strong or stronger than Di Maria. Di Maria probably will defeat him with low/mid diff. No one in Fairy Tail should be strong enough to defeat her and I'm talking about her without the time stop ability. Di Maria's God Soul is really strong and knows a lot attack which are hax and powerful. Natsu can't do anything against her lazer beams and Age Scratch (only with PoF). If someone thinks Natsu is stronger, than please tell me how he would beat her and dodge her attacks.

 

[XXEliteXXAceXX]

Dimaria did that to Kagura because of time magic, no damage done. Jacob made a guild of over a hundred disappear into another dimension. He used that to get answers from Mavis. He was able to hurt her too. Plus when he had enough he was about to kill off the mages he sent to another dimension, one by one. That's when Lucy got him to stop and pull out Brandish and Marin. That hax is just as bad.

There was no time magic though...

Before Dimaria's Time Magic

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During-After Dimaria's Time Magic

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As for Jacob, we've never seen him kill anybody. So can we just believe and assume the hype? The amount of fails in his fight also contributes to his overall lacking character. Dimaria made no mistakes. Jacob was useless. He has no sense of power. He even thought he could defeat Acnologia until August stopped him.

 

[Firepower]

It's pretty clear to me that Di Maria is the strongest Spriggan we've seen so far.

Natsu isn't as strong or stronger than Di Maria. Di Maria probably will defeat him with low/mid diff. No one in Fairy Tail should be strong enough to defeat her and I'm talking about her without her time stop ability. Di Maria's God Soul is really strong and knows a lot attack which are hax and powerful. Natsu can't do anything against her lazer beams and Age Scratch (only with PoF). If someone thinks Natsu is stronger, than please tell me how he would beat her and dodge her attacks.

Give examples of strength without stopping time. A laser beam that Hades and Future Rogue very similarly had. And then Dimaria put her full strength in her attack which only sent Chelia back a few feet. Dimaria was shocked to the max that Chelia took it well. Plus no slayer of any kind is immune to every kind of element except their own, which is wind for Chelia. She took the best Dimaria could dish out and simply finished her off after.

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There was no time magic though...

Before Dimaria's Time Magic

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During-After Dimaria's Time Magic

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As for Jacob, we've never seen him kill anybody. So can we just believe and assume the hype? The amount of fails in his fight also contributes to his overall lacking character. Dimaria made no mistakes. Jacob was useless. He has no sense of power. He even thought he could defeat Acnologia until August stopped him.

Did Dimaria kill anyone? Neither one did. Stick to the subject. You have nothing to counter anything anymore. You've come up with weak excuses and are now talking about things not proving anything any more. I thought you were better than this.

 

[XXEliteXXAceXX]

Did Dimaria kill anyone? Neither one did. Stick to the subject. You have nothing to counter anything anymore. You've come up with weak excuses and are now talking about things not proving anything any more. I thought you were better than this.

Fine, I'll let you have the last word as we obviously can't settle this. I was sticking to the subject. You commented saying that Jacob was about to kill all 111 members, one by one, until Lucy stopped him. I replied saying that he hasn't performed such a feat so it is invalid. I never compared anything to Dimaria there.

 

[reesestl]

Funny list all around, lacking any real bases to support the placement.....Also how the hell is Jacob losing to straightforward fighters like Ajeel, G Serena, Wahl & Brandish? Lemme answer that for you, he doesn't!
You would have to fabricate some fairytail level scenarios to make those characters have a snowball of a chance against his magic...(& you'd be suspicious for doing so).

Jacob Vs Dimaria is a toss up because the winner is whoever activates his/her magic first. If the clap is faster & the activation is quicker, Jacob wins. If the lip/teeth bite is faster and the activation is quicker, Dimaria wins.

The litmus test of a strong fighter is that they should be able to win against most enemies, under most circumstances. One should be able to rely on them to finish their job. Their power must not be conditional on narrow set of criteria, so that they fail if the conditions are not satisfied; they have to versatile, so that they can keep fighting even against enemies who are a bad fit for their main power. Styles do not win fights, a person's skill does.

Straightforward fighters will win against most types of fighters; an etherion blast of Wahl is a very destructive magic which is effective against anyone and considered one of the most powerful attacks. Jacob is a one-trick pony. If his clap doesn't work he has nothing left for himself. He is just an ordinary fighter who goes down by Makarov's punch. His power has too many limitations. How do you defeat him ? There are many ways. One, You just have to stop him from clapping. Turns out even Happy can do that. If Happy can do that, be rest assured Ajeel, Brandish and Serena will find a way. How can Wahl defeat Jacob? Easy, just stay out of his clap radius which shouldn't be so difficult considering he can accurately aim at a target from a distance of 400 Kms! Plus hax magic only works on wizards below a given level of MP depending on the MP of the caster. If Jacob's clap would have worked against Acnologia, August wouldn't have stopped him.Take the example of Sheila's Macro. It could only imperfectly control Elfman who is o/w weaker than her and that too only after he had an added incentive to save his kidnapped sisters. None of these are fairy tale scenarios but based on actual events in the manga.

Jacob vs Dimaria is a toss-up of a biased coin favoring Dimaria. Plus, she has a whole range of powers, which can be effective against most enemies. Other than stopping she has her TO God-Soul and Age Scratch, which brings the sensation of all the pain you have suffered in life. So ranking her above Jacob is only natural.

I find it funny that people even rank the unknown higher than the known WTF!

What do you suggest? Ranking them lower? If higher is illogical so is lower. You rank them based on the information you have about them. I won't argue on it but just give my rationale behind ranking them. Giving a high rank to Bradman shouldn't be so strange given the haunting crucifixion scene. Invel is the right-hand man of Zeref. Plus, I was impressed by the effect that as of now he is he only Spriggan who is sensible enough to recognise the enemy as strong. He has already learned the lesson which took Brandish her own, Ajeer and Jacob's defeat to learn. That means he would never make the kind the mistakes Brandish, Dimaria or Jacob made. That makes him dangerous. All of them would have won if only they were little more cautious.

 

[Firepower]

Fine, I'll let you have the last word as we obviously can't settle this. I was sticking to the subject. You commented saying that Jacob was about to kill all 111 members, one by one, until Lucy stopped him. I replied saying that he hasn't performed such a feat so it is invalid. I never compared anything to Dimaria there.

See the way I see it, offensive abilities go to the guys without any hacks, Wahl and Ajeel. The two with hacks, are Jacob and Dimaria. To me they all seem equally having the same amount of magic power, but used in different ways because of their type of magic. If Jacob fought Natsu without that dimension stuff, Jacob has the skills, but not the power. If Dimaria were in the same situation though, flying because she got punched by Makarov, she'd be easy prey for Natsu also, who was thrown at the spriggan. If Makarov did not interfere, and Jacob did not use his hax and they fought away from the guild, I'd say Natsu would have a hard time trying to hit Jacob because he's proven to be great in hand to hand combat, plus stealth. But Natsu would eventually get him because of the massive widespread destruction he is capable of.

Just for you, Dimaria's lazer would probably be more effective than Jacob's attacks as he has not proven to have offensive magic power. Good fighting skills and stealth only. But if his opponent can melt his weapons, or if they have hard armor he might have a harder time. Dimaria has a lazer, but her final attack that she put all her strength in didn't do much to TO Chelia. Chelia is a wind slayer so she wasn't immune to Dimaria's attacks. She just tanked them. If we go by hacks they are the same. If we go by fighting skills it goes to Jacob. Offensive power goes to Dimaria because that lazer is more effective than the knives Jacob throws around. Without his hax Jacob doesn't seem to be anything more than a regular assassin with not much offense coming from his magic. He does have stealth. Dimaria without her hax, has an effective lazer, and that takeover gives her some defensive because it repelled Wendy's physical attacks.

But if there were no hacks Ajeel and Wahl takes them out easy. With their hacks Ajeel and Wahl are stuck in time or in another dimension. So if Jacob and Dimaria fought without hacks, Dimaria cannot hit what she cannot see. Jacob may not be able to hurt Dimaria because of her takeover's defensive ability. Depends if he can cut her. Not sure if his physical strength can hurt her seeing as Wendy could not, but Jacob is not Wendy. So if we go by that Dimaria will at least have the chance of damaging Jacob if she gets lucky with her lazer. Or Jacob could have long been at home watching tv while Dimaria thinks he's still there fighting her. lol So because of that Dimaria is a bit above Jacob if Jacob can't touch her. You cannot count her arrogant or confident attitude. She was freaked with everything Chelia did.

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Funny list all around, lacking any real bases to support the placement.

I find it funny that people even rank the unknown higher than the known WTF!

Also how the hell is Jacob losing to straightforward fighters like Ajeel, G Serena, Wahl & Brandish? Lemme answer that for you, he doesn't!
You would have to fabricate some fairytail level scenarios to make those characters have a snowball of a chance against his magic...(& you'd be suspicious for doing so).

Jacob Vs Dimaria is a toss up because the winner is whoever activates his/her magic first. If the clap is faster & the activation is quicker, Jacob wins. If the lip/teeth bite is faster and the activation is quicker, Dimaria wins.

Sometimes we want to guess where the unknown mages belong. It can be fun playing the guessing game at times. Especially when there is a new character. It's when they've shown their capacity that the real debates begin. But everyone is welcome to have their say. This thread in some way clears up a bit of confusion. No ones ranking is the exact same. But there there are some mages that have proven themselves to be above or below certain mages. The rest is guessing, unless proven wrong or right. Otherwise this thread is purely a war zone.

 

[Arjuna]

Dimaria without Her Hax Time Magic is pretty Much Weaker than Natsu.Natsu in His FDKM can pretty Much easily One Shot Dimaria.Natsu's FDK Or Other Spells are much more Devastating Than Any Laser Or Attacks She has shown.

 

[Firepower]

Fine, I'll let you have the last word as we obviously can't settle this. I was sticking to the subject. You commented saying that Jacob was about to kill all 111 members, one by one, until Lucy stopped him. I replied saying that he hasn't performed such a feat so it is invalid. I never compared anything to Dimaria there.

This got out of hand. I meant to say you overestimate Dimaria, and underestimate Jacob. This started out with how hax Jacob's magic was in comparison to Dimaria's time hax. All the talk about Chelia was to figure out where she belongs compared to the others who have fought the spriggan, to try and guage if Dimaria deserved to be above the other spriggan. Without transport or time hax, Dimaria has takeover with chronos. Jacob has stealth. I have strong doubt that Jacob can pass through Dimaria's defense. Plus all that he has proven to have on the offensive end are knives, invisible whip, and he pointed his fingers like a gun shooting Mavis. Seeing what cannot be seen won't help Jacob because most of the time mages are visible anyway. His stealth could make things hard for Dimaria, but Dimaria showed greater offense than just throwing knives and invisible whips. Her lazer isn't anything special but it is more effective than Jacob's weapons.

So to close this out Jacob has a hax very strong as he said he has the one hundred ft member between life and death or something like that. If he wasn't bluffing that his hax is just as bad as Dimaria's hax. You are right though that Dimaria should be stronger than Jacob if they both fought without hax. I got caught up in this, talking about Jacob having a hax just as bad as Dimaria, and talking about Dimaria being overrated, that somewhere down this argument I started pitting Dimaria against Jacob which was not the point of this debate. Dimaria is better, but both have hax equally as strong.

 

[XXEliteXXAceXX]

This got out of hand. I meant to say you overestimate Dimaria, and underestimate Jacob. This started out with how hax Jacob's magic was in comparison to Dimaria's time hax. All the talk about Chelia was to figure out where she belongs compared to the others who have fought the spriggan, to try and guage if Dimaria deserved to be above the other spriggan. Without transport or time hax, Dimaria has takeover with chronos. Jacob has stealth. I have strong doubt that Jacob can pass through Dimaria's defense. Plus all that he has proven to have on the offensive end are knives, invisible whip, and he pointed his fingers like a gun shooting Mavis. Seeing what cannot be seen won't help Jacob because most of the time mages are visible anyway. His stealth could make things hard for Dimaria, but Dimaria showed greater offense than just throwing knives and invisible whips. Her lazer isn't anything special but it is more effective than Jacob's weapons.

So to close this out Jacob has a hax very strong as he said he has the one hundred ft member between life and death or something like that. If he wasn't bluffing that his hax is just as bad as Dimaria's hax. You are right though that Dimaria should be stronger than Jacob if they both fought without hax. I got caught up in this, talking about Jacob having a hax just as bad as Dimaria, and talking about Dimaria being overrated, that somewhere down this argument I started pitting Dimaria against Jacob which was not the point of this debate. Dimaria is better, but both have hax equally as strong.

I can compromise with that. No doubt, Jacob would be OP if he was telling the truth. I just can't give characters the benefit of the doubt though especially since I take my ranking seriously. I try not to underestimate or overestimate characters. So when I rate them, I am very careful about it as I don't want to be unfair to the stronger characters who deserved the credit but were underestimated. That is why I was always against the idea of Ajeel being the weakest Spriggan. How can we tell Ajeel is the weakest when we haven't even seen the rest of the unknown Spriggans? Sure enough, I rank Ajeel higher than Jacob. Feats always comes first in my eyes. Hype is secondary provided there are either minor feats to support it or the character is repeatedly hyped by many other characters. As for Jacob, he can prove himself useful if he gets back up and does something impactful. Right now, I can't say he is strong...

 

[BluePegasus]

I can compromise with that. No doubt, Jacob would be OP if he was telling the truth. I just can't give characters the benefit of the doubt though especially since I take my ranking seriously. I try not to underestimate or overestimate characters. So when I rate them, I am very careful about it as I don't want to be unfair to the stronger characters who deserved the credit but were underestimated. That is why I was always against the idea of Ajeel being the weakest Spriggan. How can we tell Ajeel is the weakest when we haven't even seen the rest of the unknown Spriggans? Sure enough, I rank Ajeel higher than Jacob. Feats always comes first in my eyes. Hype is secondary provided there are either minor feats to support it or the character is repeatedly hyped by many other characters. As for Jacob, he can prove himself useful if he gets back up and does something impactful. Right now, I can't say he is strong...

Jacob wouldn't have lot trouble to defeat Ajeel.

Yes, it's true that Ajeel showed us many more feats than Jacob did since he is the only Spriggan who had two fights. But based on what we've seen from Jacob's magic, Stealth, I'd say he is stronger than Ajeel.

Stealth gives the user the ability to vanish, erase, see and make unseen. In other words:

• He can make himself invisible.
• He can make others invisible (transport them to another place).
• He can see things which can't be seen.
• He can make objects invisible.

All these feats were showed in the fight against Lucy and Natsu. The only feat which is based on hype is his ability to kill people when they're vanished. But even if this hype is fake, I still think Jacob is stronger.

How could Ajeel attack Jacob when he is invisible? The only thing that can undo his camouflage is Light Magic, which was showed by Leo. Ajeel's Sand Magic wouldn't do a thing against his camouflage. And when Jacob is invisible, he could easily kill Ajeel.

Even though Transport won't give him the ability to kill its prisoners, he can still do things with them he wish. Transport is a very dangerous spell.

This feats aren't hype, they're real. Jacob just didn't use his magic the way he could use it. The fight against Natsu and Lucy was just awful and unbelievable. Jacob's magic is really hax, which is a fact.