I already addressed this in another post, but it had been deleted by a mod because of spoiler rules so:
Although I obviously agree with your top 3, I'd like to disagree with some things.
In the first place, Brandish isn't featless. She did stab August, which is already a notable feat, and she has shown that she can pretty much regenerate using her Mass Manipulation.
Then, I think you're slightly overrating Bradman, since Ajeel and Wahl both have a counter for his Magical Barrier Particles (intangibily + Sand World and robot physiology, respectively) and they arguably have better DC feats than him. I consider trashing Erza and facing Laxus head-on better feats than being on par with base Gajeel and being completely trashed by DF Gajeel even after going all out.
And Jacob isn't really that impressive compared to Ajeel and Wahl. I don't see Jacob facing Laxus like Wahl did. Jacob is much slower than Wahl/Laxus and his BFR spell has a small range and its casting time isn't all that amazing, plus his DC feats are way inferior to Wahl's. As for why I think Ajeel should be above, it relies on the fact that Sand World counters Transport while Jacob has no counter for Sand World.
I also think you're underestimating Invel, because Invel has been portayed to be much higher than the likes of Jacob or Bradman, since he's Zeref's right hand man, he instantly froze someone like Mavis, he managed to control Mavis' mind when we know that Mavis has a huge amount of Magic Power. Besides, he created large amounts of ice and he made the weather change in the last chapter, and although we don't know if he had prep or if it was casual, he didn't seem tired prior to that.
I disagree with Neinheart's position too since, although his magic power is huge, he can't really use those Historias in combat when someone like Bradman would just one-shot him with his particles or when he can't handle Wahl's attacks because his other stats are too low.
And I think I've already addressed why Wahl and Ajeel should be higher. Ajeel has Sand World, intangibility and he pretty much trashed Erza, and Wahl has the same stats as Laxus.
I don't really know what the second list is, but these are my thoughts on the first list.
Yeah I answered your comments but they were deleted too.
Anyway:
- Brandish is not featless but she almost is indeed. I'm not taking into account her stabbing feat, that says nothing about her power really. All I'm taking into account is that she is an island buster AT LEAST, that she's a top healer and even maybe can regenerate tissue. The most interesting feat of hers is the fact she can pinpoint and shrink/enlarge any organ in your body. So if she manages to alter the size of any organ of her enemy, their body will stop to function properly. In the worst case scenario she can probably shrink a heart/brain to the point it's no longer there which means she can instakill.
- I'm not overrating BRadman really, it's not that I like him a lot either, but his powers are clearly OP. Not only does he posess the curses of the whole bunch of enemies of the previous arc, some of which are too hax (Macro), she also has got MBP so that automatically means CQC specialists are not going to be suitable to fight him. He is versatile, has a wide variety of curse types, and he's got two dangerous hax. Probably can also cast alegria or memento mori so... That should pretty much justify why he's in that position. Why not higher? Because against Gajeel he did not show the shrewdness to use his best tricks and he ended up losing when he could've won rather fast so that tells me he shouldn't be higher.
- Ajeel cannot counter his MBP.
- Wahl can probably counter his MBP, but he's not going to be able to harm him, whereas Bradman is going to be able to do so.
- Bradman was not on par with base Gajeel, he was vastly superior. Also, it's debatable whether Bradman went all out against DF Gajeel because I think he could've used one of his hax (macro, alegria, etc.) but he didn't. So either he was too overwhelmed by DF Gajeel that he couldn't think clearly and activate such curses, or he is just plainly dumb (which downplays his aptitudes).
- Jacob may not be as impressive as Ajeel or Wahl but if he can send them into their dimension and they happen to be powerless there, then he's simply superior, because they're not gonna have time to escape the range of his transport (probably). And if they can he can probably use stealth to get close enough and use transport then.
- Laxus is one character which is so fast that I can see him speedblitzing Jacob and outclassing him (being faster than him clapping and oneshotting him), but that doesn't mean that he should be below Wahl, it just means Laxus is not a proper matchup for Jacob. But still, the fact Jacob is slower (although we haven't seen any significant speed feat from him) does not mean he cannot beat Ajeel, Wahl or Laxus since let's remember all he probably needs is to join his hands.
- Sand World is not a counter for transport.
- I'm not underestimating Invel but I think he's the most featless Spriggan of yet so I don't know where to class him. He seems the cqc type, an OP version of Gray if you ask me, and hax > cqc, generally. Invel instafroze Mavis but so what, so did Silver (to Natsu) and then I've read Invel froze Mavis' thoughts but I think it was that collar that he put on her which was restricting or thickening her thinking, but even if he could 'freeze' her thoughts that only means he can actually make your organs colder/freeze them which is normal considering he masters ice, but I still think shrinking a heart to the point it doesn't exist is > freezing it (since freezing it doesn't guarantee instadeath as we already saw).
- Invel being Zeref's right hand man only means he may be the most rational one, or he prefers the office work, not that he's stronger or more reliable than any other spriggan. We already know he's badly outclassed by August, Irene and probably Larcade.
- He made the weather change but so did Irene, Sandworld affected a whole city, Brandish shrunk a whole island, even Jellal was able to change the sky characteristics. That he made the weather colder/snowy does not hype him much IMHO.
- If you mean Neinheart should be below Bradman because although he can summon him, Bradman cannot fight by his side because God Serena would be affected by his MBP, then I guess you've got a point. But that applies to all other spriggan. I mean it's not like even August is immune to MBP (I guess...) so... Also Neinhart may have the ability to be "immune" to his creations (who knows?) or he may create a battle strategy in which he's directly protected by the cqc types and the dangerous types fight from a distance. I mean the fact that he can summon 3 spriggans IMO makes him as strong as 3 spriggans at the same time which is even higher than August IMO. He can probably even summon August upon his death so that's why I put him first in the second list.
- Wahl is below Laxus since he was defeated by Laxus even when Wahl was literally Laxus' counter (not affected by lightning) and he was injured and trashed before the fight ever began so yeah.
