The difference is that gray has counter to their ice magic while people like erza and natsu doesn't necessarily have counter to their opponents magic .
I hate to admits but gray fighting ice mages over and over again really is unfair , becoz he's being compared to his others peer while his fight are mostly a fight against someone that he had counter to .
Thats the opposite of the truth.
Silver -
immune to Gray's magic
Urtear - has a magic specifically designed to counter Gray's magic and able to make his spells vanish
Rufus - also able to vanish Gray's magic. Stated by Mavis to be a bad matchup for Gray
Who on earth has Gray had any advantage over before Invel?
Invel was fighting with one hand behind is back. And saying stuffs like now you got my attention.
....That's just the way Invel fights. It has nothing to do with his level of effort.
Tbf his moves don't really need to be grand in scale, the only reason Gajeel could even fight him was because of his Iron Lungs, anyone else would have been suffering from the MBP's. Even then, he has Tenchi Kamei, the Sensation Curse, Enhancement Curse and Macro. His hax is insane, he could insta-freeze (IDS Magic), make himself stronger and control his opponent one after the other. His defense is also insane, he has his MBP body to evade physical attacks (which unlike Invel's Divine Rainment kills passively) and due to the Absorption Curse he can steal the souls of any spells that do manage to hit.
If Hax is the law of the land then he should at least be above Ajeel and Wahl.
Eh, I would need to reread his fight before reevaluating his status on my list but I probably will. Wahl has wayyy too much raw power imo and he's a machine so he wouldnt be affected by death particles.
Erza was unable to use her magic most of the fight and she had the advantage, when she is a CQC mage and most of Ajeel's spells are AOEs? Erza hardly had the advantage, when her field of vision was hindered. And yes, Gajeel became immune when he metabolized the iron in the particles. He didn't start the fight immune... Gray was able to resist everything Invel threw at him from the get-go, minus Ice Lock.
Erza - Yes. She was in CQC (where she is strongest) on a ship in the sky against a guy who's biggest moves are only released at ground level (Ant Pit, Sand Tsunami, etc)
Gajeel - He wasnt affected by Bradman's death particles due to his iron lungs, remember? Just as Gray couldn't be instant frozen like Natsu and the others.
Gray was not immune to Invel's ice before using Devil Slaying though. He was clearly hurt when hit by Invel's moves in base and was even starting to freeze over. Gray was
never hit when he began using Devil Slaying except for when Invel used a moved that ignored his immunity. His only advantage was being able to resist instant freeze which is a natural affect of his ice magic.
How convenient to forget that the tables turned in Gray's favor, due to Juvia's sacrifice.
Possibly? Ice Lock only landed because of outside interference and they were matched before then. Nothing indicating that Gray going all out would have lost to Invel and Gray clearly wasnt going all out to start with.
