Let's try this again. Third time trying to post this, if any board personnel are listening. As we've previously discussed. August is the only mage we see him struggle with. An his performance against Acnologia shows that was mainly due to hax and not overwhelming power. After another year of bounty hunting, presumably solo, I expect whatever minor gap existed is closed.
An hence the surprise, even Zeref never did anything like that. An based on the story so far it was unexpected. Though Zeref tier hax should be a problem. As it stands a real case can be made for Touka being the superior mage. I'm interested to see how thatf goes. Especially since everybody is up in arms about Acno possibly being weaker than the Dragon Gods.
"August is the only mage we seen him have trouble with."
Lol what? Um Neinhart oneshotted him, and August stomped his butt into the floor. Oracion Seis took him out of commission for a week with just 4 of them a year prior. Jellal was never at the level where he never was once without trouble within the manga.
A year later and Jellal hasn't even creeped past DiMaria let alone August lol. He hasn't shown anything to say he powered up within the year either.
Zeref could've always done that. That's why the premise of the Alvarez war was dumb in the first place. No one on Ishgar besides Plot Force Natsu could've beaten Zeref. Zeref easily could've teleported in the guild and death wave them to kill them all. Heck several S12 could have merk the entire guild. That's why the Alvarez was such a sham arc.
Acnologia is the bar for the Dragon Gods. RoT Acnologia is confirmed to be stronger than DGs as the DGs were only stronger than Acno before he got the boost. There's probably only one DG among this bunch who can rival or is actually stronger than Acno but the others are not above him as of now.