August tanked Gildarts' strongest spell, which bypassed his immunity. His suicide spell was strong enough to vapourize the entire country. He was overwhelming Gildarts in physical combat as well. Clearly he's the strongest mage (apart from Plotsu of course) in stats as well. He's not the typical spriggan who's all MP and hax, while being fodder in stats.
I'm fairly certain that he'd have defeated Jellol and co without copying his spells, it just would've been low-mid diff instead of no diff
I used to think that his magic was some lame cheese shit too, but when I thought more about it, my mind changed. I'd say the magic he possess is unique to him, which is why he became the magic King. If you think about it, it makes sense. Being able to instantly master magic from just seeing it once is the only way to become the true magic King. No one else possess that magic, which makes me believe that he invented it himself (or he was born with it, being the son of the most talented mage before him).
Point of all this being, his magic really resonated with me, regarding his hype of "magic King". For me, he truly lived upto his hype - both in power and regarding his title. He just was written in a.....retarded way and himself became a retard
i dont understand your king of magic point. his magic is like rufus.
jellal and hades seems more knowledgeable about magic than him. no?
he didnt tank it, he suffered enough to think he needed a suicide spell to win. it did a number on him.
we dont know his spell would vaporize the country. it was only effecting magnolia, nothing more.
and gildarts thing. i dont know. i think that being the last arc laxus would have given gildarts a high diff fight then, but this gildarts will be using his magic.
in august case, gildarts was basically fighting without magic. and still hung out with august. i dont find that impressive.
are you sure. august beat them only because he was negating and copying their magic. this is similiar to dimeria time stoping and beating them or jacob transporting them. its like a dragon beating gildarts, jellal, GOI, midnight, racer, angel, ogra, kagura, just because their magic wasnt working on that dragon