Quarterfinal Laxus vs Zeref

[Valhalla]

Im very curious how this battle will turn out. The results will be interesting. Wont be surprised if even Laxus wins this.
Mashima you bastard, look what you've done to ma boy Zeref and your main villain, he's now being pressured by Laxus and his fans xD
Where is the savageassery (is this even a word) of the past :/

1. "Zeref cannot use time magic, cannot regenerate, and has no access to Fairy Heart."

Actually his regen powers that come from his immortality always kick in after the battle, and it takes time. So even without his regen, Zeref is a tank. As @Lexusflame stated he took Natsu's Igneel-Powered onslaught and still kept coming. He freaking survived a full powered FDKM Igneel fist and was even still standing (it looked like he lost an arm there). But his regen kicked in after his talk with Natsu, and after Natsu left.
His regen didn't activate during the whole finale fight with Natsu. If it had, Zeref's bruises would have been gone (he would have been PinPin --> get the reference).
So in conclusion Zeref is still a tank, and you cant deny it, and restricting his immortality isn't even a major handicap, because it only helps him after battles.

 

[Am Shegar]

To be fair I must say we must also count Zerefs hype. He did not demonstrate attack enchantments but he is hyped better enchanter then Irene (he turned her into human). He is 400 old and knows almost every magic. Its sad he just traded punches with Natsu and no more but he must know a lot of immobilization and attack spells. So he must know hidden ways to defeat Laxus not in CQC but in magic duel. If August know negotation magic Zeref must know some kind of it too. So logically Zeref must be far stronger than Laxus. But logically Zeref must be a lot stronger than Natsu too. Post timeskip Zeref did not demonstrated those feats and Laxus is fast enough to evade black orbs.

 

[Ice Hunter]

Another Zeref fight... i still don't understand how Zeref power works but now let me speculate how his power work. From what i read in the manga it seems Zeref isn't powerfull at all, he is just smart, but intelect people tend to have weak physical body and durability, that's why Ultear CAN KNOCK zeref unconsious in Tenrou Arc. And Natsu can beat FH Zeref. So i think Laxus can win this match if his powerfull attack connected, only one strong attack is enough... Just once strong lightning from Laxus to knock Zeref.
So the advantage of Zeref here is: He has powerfull magic spells but Laxus has high durability... So Laxus win because of his high durability when Zeref doesn't have that durability

 

[Seven777]

Its too bad Jellal got eliminated earlier, wouldve been much more interesting to have him fight Zeref. It'd be a good fight.

 

[Axiomus]

Considering that Zeref can tank hits from Igneel-powered Natsu, Laxus would exhaust himself before Zeref gets knocked out.

 

[Pirate Queen]

Zeref is nerfed hard in this tourney. I voted for him over Invel because Invel's reaction feats and speed feats are pretty crap. Laxus on the other hand is much faster than Invel. I can't see too many of Zeref's attacks hitting Laxus and since he can't regenerate then it's possible for Laxus to put him down. If Zeref wasn't nerfed he would stomp but because he is I'm rolling with Laxus.

1. "Zeref cannot use time magic, cannot regenerate, and has no access to Fairy Heart."

1. "Zeref cannot use time magic, cannot regenerate, and has no access to Fairy Heart."

Seems to me that the person that's high af is the one that didn't read any of the rules

You dont read very well. He didnt regenerate when he fought Igneel powered natsu til AFTER the fight. During the fight he kept coming after Natsu.

And you dont need time magic to slow down your opponent. I didnt me slow down litterally, i ment nullify it.

I understand the rules very well. Hell they could nerf zeref fuether and Zeref still takez this.

If even August has no chance against Zeref(a manga fact), Laxus sure as hell dont.

Again, if zeref can stand toe to toe with igneel powered natsu, laxus doesnt have a chance. Laxus would exhausted himself far quicker than it would take Zeref to fall.

Just remembering zeref waiting patiently at Fairy Tail for either Jellal or Laxus to arrive and instead he got Grey lol he didnt look the slightest bit concerned and you understood the manga, neither would anyone voting for Zeref. This is simple.

So ya, high af

 

[Hermit]

"Zeref cannot use time magic,

Time magic isn't the only way Zeref can slow someone down though.
There's these 2 right here:

Spoiler: Zeref stops Makarov

Spoiler: Zeref stops Natsu

Spoiler: Zeref stops Rusty and Kain

EDIT: Oh, guess there was 3 after all.

 

[Pirate Queen]

Another Zeref fight... i still don't understand how Zeref power works but now let me speculate how his power work. From what i read in the manga it seems Zeref isn't powerfull at all, he is just smart, but intelect people tend to have weak physical body and durability, that's why Ultear CAN KNOCK zeref unconsious in Tenrou Arc. And Natsu can beat FH Zeref. So i think Laxus can win this match if his powerfull attack connected, only one strong attack is enough... Just once strong lightning from Laxus to knock Zeref.
So the advantage of Zeref here is: He has powerfull magic spells but Laxus has high durability... So Laxus win because of his high durability when Zeref doesn't have that durability

Zeref doesn't have durability? What the hell do you call him tanking igneel powered attacks???

 

[Static]

Tbf, Zeref's feats are really inconsistent. On one hand, he tanked Igneel-powered Natsu's attacks and on the other, he was getting smacked around by Base Natsu. How powerful Zeref is literally depends on what use Hiro has for him in the plot.

 

[Pirate Queen]

Tbf, Zeref's feats are really inconsistent. On one hand, he tanked Igneel-powered Natsu's attacks and on the other, he was getting smacked around by Base Natsu. How powerful Zeref is literally depends on what use Hiro has for him in the plot.

True, but the same for Laxus. He was litterally dying in the only real fight he had and even when healthy later he was having trouble with a severally weakened historia Hades, sure he pulled off a win but it toom a while with was riduculous to me

 

[Enima]

Its too bad Jellal got eliminated earlier, wouldve been much more interesting to have him fight Zeref. It'd be a good fight.

LOL, Zeref was playing with FDKM Natsu Jellal wouldn't last 10 seconds.

Tbf, Zeref's feats are really inconsistent. On one hand, he tanked Igneel-powered Natsu's attacks and on the other, he was getting smacked around by Base Natsu. How powerful Zeref is literally depends on what use Hiro has for him in the plot.

It wasn't really "Base Natsu". Zeref's like Superman he's extremely strong but his strength is consistent. Natsu is like The Hulk, his power increases in proportion to the danger his friends are in.

 

[Seven777]

LOL, Zeref was playing with FDKM Natsu Jellal wouldn't last 10 seconds.


It wasn't really "Base Natsu". Zeref's like Superman he's extremely strong but his strength is consistent. Natsu is like The Hulk, his power increases in proportion to the danger his friends are in.

Nah, Zeref was as serious as we've seen him since the Fairy Heart fight.
Send Zeref against Jellal, Gray, or Erza and i'd say he loses all 3 fights.

 

[**Silver**]

Boom Red Lightning Laxus/Yuri wins...The bond off blood is even stronger than immortality

 

[Enima]

Nah, Zeref was as serious as we've seen him since the Fairy Heart fight.
Send Zeref against Jellal, Gray, or Erza and i'd say he loses all 3 fights.

Zeref wasn't serious, he was telling Natsu to kill him....

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He wasn't even trying to block Natsu's attack, how can we call that a serious fight?.

None of the characters you mentioned have FDKM level fire power. Erza and Jellal had trouble handling Neinhart how do you expect them to damage a mage who could pretty much tank a Dragon level attack without much difficulty. Gray might last longer due to DS magic, but even he can't do much against Zeref.

 

[M3J]

Laxus will win this, going by Natsu. Laxus is my favorite, but I really don't wanna vote for him, and yet.... Natsu without powerups beat Zeref, and Natsu's inferior to Laxus. No reason to believe Laxus won't win.

Though, Natsu did have an asspull otherwise he'd have been dead.

 

[Seven777]

Zeref wasn't serious, he was telling Natsu to kill him....

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He wasn't even trying to block Natsu's attack, how can we call that a serious fight?.

None of the characters you mentioned have FDKM level fire power. Erza and Jellal had trouble handling Neinhart how do you expect them to damage a mage who could pretty much tank a Dragon level attack without much difficulty. Gray might last longer due to DS magic, but even he can't do much against Zeref.

Zeref is a nutjob, he can want to die and fight at the same time, why would he attack Natsu otherwise.
Erza was injured against Neinhart, Jellal was PiS, Zeref is more or less Jacob tier anyway so its not like hes a big jump ahead of Neinhart.

 

[Arjuna]

Everyone don't forget Zeref himself told Hades he was valuing life so that's why he lost to Ultear.So don't take it as a feat.

 

[Enima]

Laxus will win this, going by Natsu. Laxus is my favorite, but I really don't wanna vote for him, and yet.... Natsu without powerups beat Zeref, and Natsu's inferior to Laxus. No reason to believe Laxus won't win.

Though, Natsu did have an asspull otherwise he'd have been dead.

Natsu is inferior to Laxus?, and it wasn't really "Natsu without powerups" he needed DF to tank one of Zeref's attacks and PoF to beat him.

Zeref is a nutjob, he can want to die and fight at the same time, why would he attack Natsu otherwise.
Erza was injured against Neinhart, Jellal was PiS, Zeref is more or less Jacob tier anyway so its not like hes a big jump ahead of Neinhart.

Yeah that's true but at the end it looks like he just wants Natsu to end his life, he wasn't defending himself. Zeref is at least at the same level as Irene, he was able to immobilise Makarov easily.

That's funny because Jacob would've wiped out the whole guild if lucy hadn't come up with a plan.

 

[Ice Hunter]

Another Zeref fight... i still don't understand how Zeref power works but now let me speculate how his power work. From what i read in the manga it seems Zeref isn't powerfull at all, he is just smart, but intelect people tend to have weak physical body and durability, that's why Ultear CAN KNOCK zeref unconsious in Tenrou Arc. And Natsu can beat FH Zeref. So i think Laxus can win this match if his powerfull attack connected, only one strong attack is enough... Just once strong lightning from Laxus to knock Zeref.
So the advantage of Zeref here is: He has powerfull magic spells but Laxus has high durability... So Laxus win because of his high durability when Zeref doesn't have that durability

Zeref doesn't have durability? What the hell do you call him tanking igneel powered attacks???

Where the hell do i state Zeref doesn't have durability? i say that Zeref doesn't have much durability as Laxus does m8...

 

[M3J]

Natsu is inferior to Laxus?, and it wasn't really "Natsu without powerups" he needed DF to tank one of Zeref's attacks and PoF to beat him.


Yeah that's true but at the end it looks like he just wants Natsu to end his life, he wasn't defending himself. Zeref is at least at the same level as Irene, he was able to immobilise Makarov easily.

That's funny because Jacob would've wiped out the whole guild if lucy hadn't come up with a plan.

Yes he is. Prove otherwise.
PoF doesn't really count as powerup, but even if it does, then we can say Laxus can feel the same here.