Anyone voting for Jacob when Transport is restricted is blind.
Lets compare feats for a second.
Firstly, offensive feats:
- Jacob: Never put down anyone without Transport, Lucy tanked a barrage from him
- Kyria: One-shotted a stronger version of Lucy with a single Roar, cut through Aquametria (one of her stronger attacks) effortlessly and gave 100YQ Erza a good bout.
Now lets look at defensive feats:
- Jacob: Tanked a combo attack from base Natsu/Lucy (which isn't saying much, has Lucy kick ever been impressive?), tanked a hit from Makarov and then got one-shotted the second Natsu could use FDK Demo Fist without damaging the guild. He then later got one-shotted by BBS Mira.
- Kyria: Agile enough to avoid an attack from DF Wendy, tanked a hit from Erza's Belserion + Flame Armour and was completely ready to continue fighting once she landed above on the deck of the ship. Most recently she had an off-panel fight with Laxus where he decided she was troublesome enough to use a Secret Art against her. That Secret Art is the only thing that has KO'd her to date.
Kyria is solidly stronger, and even Stealth isn't helping Jacob because Kyria's Roar has some good AoE.
Restrictions: Kyria is wearing a Burqa.
LMFAO, you crack me up.
I know you guys 've Brexit and also, but in real world after activiating Belserion, Kyria was oneshotted with first sword strike on her
Why you brought up Brexit I'll never know (if its "Hur dur Brexit dumb" then get better jokes), but you're outright wrong regarding the manga.
In fact I think you know you're wrong because on the very next few pages Kyria is raging at Skullion because she wants to keep fighting. Even Skullion hints they could keep fighting, since when Gray says that two of them are unable to battle Kyria shouts at him and Skullion says that they are retreating because they are at a disadvantage due to numbers.