No, she doesn't LMAOO. Gajeel is physically stronger than her, and he uses Dragon Slaying magic. A hypothetical giant Brandish wouldn't scale to giant Gajeel.
Nothing indicates that Gajeel is physically stronger under normal circumstances, if you are going by appearance that is a massive headcanon, DS just bypasses impractical resistance to magic attacks and makes it painful. Brandish became giant before wat? How are dragons able to win when their best feat is destroying a giant pillars that even a pre timeskip Wendy can destroy?
Gajeel is a physical fighter who combats strong opponents with his physical abilities; the only person Brandish has ever fought hand-to-hand is Lucy. Brandish is the one who has to prove she's on par with Gajeel, not the other way. DS bypasses heavy resistance and without that Gajeel would have never phased Aldron, so trying to scale Brandish to that makes no sense. The Dragons blitz the Spriggan, and they scale to Animus who was a no named dragon yet was giving Natsu the business.
Brandish is also a physical fighter too against physically strong opponents and even survived attacks from empowered Neinhart. Someone Gajeel did not fight even. Even with DS attributes, that alone is nothing without strength which Brandish gave him for the task. Dragons don’t have speed feats to compare, Spriggans would scale to the likes of Natsu who can react to lasers. Animus got Dragon Cry so that is why he was strong.
Lol bro, if Eileen was weakened mashima would have said so or told us she was but she wasn't. Lmao acnologia considers zeref strong but zeref says he himself is an ant to acnologia. Acnologia held zeref in high regard compared to fodders like Eileen. Wendy DS enchant literally removed Irene from her dragon form and she was battle exhausted. Gradeeny manhandles the shit out of Eileen
He did say so, with what Wendy said with how she got her residual power when she returned to her body. Zeref is known to contradict himself every now and then. Even a weakened Zeref can damage a DG in dragon form, that shows Zeref saying that he can’t is being modest. That is not how his personality works as he doesn’t go all out on those he considers ants which he doesn’t talk to, if he talks to them, then they are not fodder. Wendy’s DS plus Erza’s Irene empowered state is enough to do that. Grandeeny could only destroy Face structures where Wendy could do that pre-timeskip.
Well he would gain their strengths since Slayers become stronger with what they eat. So no much change
Yep.
It doesn't change the outcome. It only give him immunity to their element. Serena gets blitz and one shot physically.
Natsu walked off Animus’ attack no problem, besides Natsu did not even use his stronger attacks, he only used his dragonized form until after and even then we do not know where that scales to the rest of his power sets. being strong is only relative to what they have shown, and they just crash into some faces. Their speed is less than oight which Natsu during GMG could react to. The frame is not really good at perspective base as the vanishing point would be several kms at best depending on the elevation of the viewer.
They are just flying fast into them, Shadow dragon naturally has those shadow tendrils and did nothing with their actual magic. Also the anime clarified that he never covered his body in shadows, just shows that the manga panel is just lighting from a different angle.
You can see Skiadrum covered in shadows, Weisslogia in a ball of light, and trails of wind from Gradeeney's wings.
that can just be his natural shadow tendrils leaving a trail since they are of a misty-like substance, and again, we see him not covered in shadows in the anime, and Weisslogia was not even a ball of light in the anime too, besides he naturally radiates light without using any magic as he is the white dragon. So? Other dragons destroyed the faces with wind pressure too, not just Grandeeney. They are natural as he is the shadow dragon, just as Atlas’ Fire body is just as it is, his body Of fire, natural and magic are relative to each other, like no different. They are born with their elements, not learned iirc.