The only thing keeping me from being 100% sure it is an attack (instead of a 'mode' like LFD mode) is that Laxus' attack was really low key, so I wouldn't be surprised if he has the ability to replace his normal lightning in his attacks with the red lightning, it would be pretty OP if he can.
Ajeel stated that it would not have killed him, you can clearly see he was just taken by surprise.
I will take August's words more than Ajeel.If not kill it would have surely defeated him.
Laxus did not know that Wahl could expel those runes and the particles he just hoped for the best, Dumb luck. It was unfair he one-shot Wahl because at that point Wahl already increased his exoskeleton's durability. It should not have been a one shot at least. In a logical battle, Laxus eats laser unril Wahl decides otherwise.
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Ajeel is a spriggan ALONGSIDE August. He has experience too. Plenty of it. He knows what will take him down and what will not. From his facial expression before he gets hit by Jupiter, you can see he was surprised by the blast ( we can not even tell if it defeated him as he might just make a comeback) as he was by Laxus's blast. Had he not been taken by surprise things might have ended otherwise.
A good solid no alibi fight would satisfy everyone.
I get your point but I mean let's look at the 3 you are talking about, Laxus still beat a Spriggan and to me he did show what he was capable of the illness just slowed him down a bit, Natsu will get plenty of the spotlight he's the main character after all so why worry about him right now? Lucy getting some time to shine while also having Natsu finish Jacob was imo the best way to go, Jellal clearly will let loose next chapter so we have to wait for that to happen to say much there but overall my point is are these characters really getting shafted as much as you say?
As my user name suggests I am both fan of Natsu and Lucy.I love Lucy getting spotlight.But in this way we are not able to guess the limit of their power.Natsu didn't properly fight a Spriggan without hax Magic,laxus didn't fight someone who will not be resistant to lightning.If they fight a Spriggan close to their power level without hax Magic then we will be able to gauge their powerlevel.
He knew Wahl could expel MBP's. I'd bet if Laxus was a character who is viewed as intelligent it would be interpreted as strategy and fans would praise the move.
Laxus had no way of knowing that Wahl could expel those particles. Laxus is smart and quite keen when in and out of battle however that fight belonged to Wahl. What was unfair was Laxus's plot-wise durability. Wahl's attack sequence/array should have beaten him.
Not quite. Laxus didn't win fairly and there were a lot of complications with the explanations in his fight. Putting Laxus' intelligence aside, this whole fight was sort of a stretch to what should be considered a cheap-shot. I already explained why Red Lightning was nonsense, so I'll save the trouble of having to read that again. I also tried to explain the topic regarding MBP in the past but since it is brought up, I guess I'll just make it clearer this time because not only was the explanation illogical, it was pulled out of nowhere.
Mavis was the one who deduced Wahl had the ability to dispel magic barriers. Laxus was in the Magnolia. He knew that Freed's barrier was nullified. Laxus explains in the battle vs Wahl that if someone can dispel Freed's barriers then they can probably nullify the magic barrier particles inside of him.
Personally I have been content with how they have been shown so far but I do agree that that in general Mashima is not very good with showcasing a consistent powerscale, I don't expect perfection but when I look at One Piece or even Bleach and Naruto I think Fairy Tail really lags behind in this aspect, the whole 7 year time skip with someone like Max being on par with base Natsu at the time was nonsense to me it cheapened the whole battle they just had with Hades, I am not saying it made the fight worse necessarily but it just was stupid to have a fodder character be fighting someone rather evenly who had just played a huge role in fighting the most powerful villain FT had fought at the time. Then there is the whole Natsu vs Twin Dragons fiasco which made no sense, How Mashima thought that making Natsu alone beat both Sting and Rogue who were both using Dragon force without him even having to use his lightning flame dragon mode when he and Gajeel were getting beat around by just Sting for quite a while is beyond me. My point is I like FT a lot but I think the best were ever going to get as far as power levels are concerned is more of a portrayal and generalized approach, expecting anymore I think is setting ourselves up for disappointment hence why I believe that the majority of Spriggans are more or less equal.
Well you really only explained to me your opinion on red lightning, you never proved it's nonsense just that it could be nonsense. Everyone, including myself are just forming an opinion on RL. We disagree on the cheap shot because we disagree about what is fair and unfair in FT.
Considering that all the possible explanations that the manga has given were refuted, I think it is quite obvious that it was clearly PoF that saved the day. The only reason that people would look at this fight differently from Erza vs. Azuma is that it was their bias that was involved. Hiro Mashima purposely drew the scenes similar to each other, so it is up to us to determine whether both are legitimate or neither of them are. If we were to classify one as a result of Nakama Power, we cannot deny the other one either.
Let's be real here. What makes us believe that the ability Wahl has is just particle nullification?
The thing is, Wahl's magic isn't particle nullification or something /that/ profound. It's plain old Weakness Magic.
Really? How does Weakness Magic have anything to do with this situation? Wahl has two types of magic. Nullification Magic and Weakness Magic. Weakness Magic had nothing to do with Laxus except the immunity to lightning. But that is a different topic. The nullification aspect is what I'm talking about here. Like you said, there are only two conditions in which you could dispel Rune Magic. The first being that you satisfy its rules. The second being that you are able to create a new one. None of which applies to the canceling of Magic Barrier Particles.The thing is, Wahl's magic isn't particle nullification or something /that/ profound. It's plain old Weakness Magic.
Wahl isn't only a bad match up for Laxus; he's pretty much a bad match-up for everyone fighting him solo. You can see it right here:
http://www.mangapanda.com/fairy-tail/459/15
Wahl pretty much reveals that he can exploit weaknesses in people and in their attacks. Juvia sizzles against a steambot, Gray's Wahlbot spews out flames, Lisanna faces a steel tank, and Elfman is pitted against a speedster. Wahl is a perfect counter to EVERYBODY, whatever their abilities may be.
In Laxus's case, what Wahl needed to counter and exploit was the rune magic that Laxus set up.
How do you get rid of runes? Either you rewrite them or simply fulfill the condition needed to dispel them. In Laxus's case, the condition was to cancel the MBPs.
Poof, Wahl counters the runes at the cost of cancelling the MBPs and ultimately healing Laxus. It was that simple, tbh. Dunno why people tend to overthink this.