What Mashima-sensei has done to gray and gajeel is fucking disgusting and it's a travesty. He's perfectly OKAY with not allowing natsu be as strong as erza but he's perfectly okay with gray and gajeel being weaker than Lucy or freaking Wendy. Gray and gajeel are seasoned fighters, they've been fighters since.
When did Mashima make Gray and Gajeel weaker than Lucy and Wendy?
They are canonically comparable to LFD Natsu, and their base in as strong as base Natsu. The gap between them and Natsu is simply due to Natsu having access to better modes.
Mashima sees LFD Natsu far superior to Lucy, to the point where he tells (through Aquarius) that LFD Natsu might accidentally end up killing Lucy.
The power gap is enormous.
They are trash in the spinoff, but that has more to do with how little of a damn Mashima is giving about them. There is literally zero effort and zero invested plot going on about them. Even Laxus and Jellal have more plot going on for them than GRAY -
the rival of Natsu, truly atrocious writing.
Same for Mira, nothing going on for her at all in the spinoff.
But don't let the irrelevancy of characters like Gray, Gajeel and Mira fool you when it comes to power level - they are still treated as the strong fighters.
Power level vise, they are kinda all right (though Gray/Gajeel admittedly doesn't have the aura they had in main series).
- Give Gray his "darkness mode" back for example, and he's jumping above FDKM Natsu. DeS mode Gray scales to LFD Natsu
- Mira tanked Lucy's stardress mix attack that fully exhausted her, then went onto fight Skullion.
- ISM Gajeel pushed LFD Natsu to extreme diff, and LFD Natsu is leagues above Lucy as explained above.
They are still at a level where they can destroy Lucy and Wendy at least.
He wasn't. During Battle of Fairy Tail he was not considered as someone who can defeat Laxus - only Erza, Mystogan and Natsu were. He was also not even invited to Tenrou, he was Levy's partner. He was considered Natsu's level in Phantom Lord only, and he was clearly the the weakest in Alvarez as he was the only one without Dragon Force.
Also it's confirmed that the stronger DS is, the stronger motion sickness is. Pre-GMG Gajeel rode vehicles without any problems (Wendy also didn't have problems with vehicles in Oracion Seis, I don't remember when it started for her).
This is just cherry picking info.
Gajeel was paired with Natsu:
- against Laxus
- against Sting/Rouge, where both were at a level they could stomp solo
- against Tempesta/Torafusa
Clearly, he is built as a rival to Natsu.
He also pushed LFD Natsu to extreme diff in the spinoff.
Are you reading the right series? Gajeel has always been compared to natsu before the Alvarez time skip. He was not the weakest dragon slayer
Ofc you don't know what can happen to make him stronger but people like you be saying stuff like I hope mashima makes aquarius and Lucy do something against MERCPHOBIA, I hope aquarius ass pulls dragon slayer magic to do something against MERCPHOBIA
Are Lucy fans wanting her to do something solo to a DRAGON GOD?
KEK
They are competing with Erza fans with their takes lmao
