geearf said:
Morcombe said:
Because until these Spriggan 12 guys turned up Gildarts was regarded as the most powerful character in the series (except for Zeref and Acnologia obv) and now there is someone here at long last who might give him a serious fight, so people wanna see that. Gildarts can be as powerful as Mashima wants him to be considering we've never seen him fight at full strength.
Gildarts is strong compared to his guild yes, but he's still fodder compared to Achnologia, so no matter what Mashima can't make him too strong.
Makarov was supposed to be super strong, and got almost fodderized by Precht (who was older so the age cannot be used...). I'm sure Gildarts is stronger, but I can't see too many orders of magnitude stronger.
As for the most powerful, even more than the 4 gods of Ishtar ? (well let's forget the 4th...)
Has it been stated that the Spriggan 12 are as powerful as Acnolgia? Cause I'm pretty sure he would beat all 12 of them if he faced them 1 on 1 maybe all 12 against him at the same time might beat him but defo not 1 on 1.
Until Gildarts actually shows up we have no idea what his true strength is in comparison to the 4 Gods of Ishgar but I'm almost certain he will be stronger than 2 - 4 and will most likely equal Serena, at this point I'd even say Gildarts is stronger than Makarov and Makarov is ranked somewhere between 6 - 10 in the Wizard saints.
If Gildarts isn't at least equal to the Spriggan 12 then I don't see why Mashima would have left him out of the Tartarus arc, the only reason for not having him there has to be because he would have been to powerful for Tartarus to handle, same here the only reason not have him here in this arc at the start is so he can do a "Big Damn Hero" moment when he's badly needed.
