It seems like in the world of Fairy Tail, everyone is some incredible mage with world-shattering powers capable of doing things you’d normally only hear about in legends. But there’s no anime where everyone can be strong, and no matter how strong the guild they all have a weak link.
This list takes a look at all of the weakest members in every Legal Guild in Fairy Tail. The only rule is that each guild member has to be an actual combatant, so we’re not sneaking in characters who don’t actually know how to fight. These aren’t the accountants or the bartenders of a guild, but those who have actually rushed into battle or taken on battle-focused quests.
10 SABERTOOTH: FROSCH
Sabertooth is essentially young Fairy Tail. They’re a group of talented mages who are learning what it means to treat one another like a family. But while they were easily the strongest guild while Fairy Tail was gone, that doesn’t mean everyone was strong. There’s a reason why Jiemma tried to obliterate Lector when he saw him—most Exceed aren’t exactly powerhouses. And while yes, Lector isn’t strong, he’s pretty clever. Frosch isn’t even that. He’s cute, so other people want to protect him, which is good because he’s helpless.
9 QUATRO PUPPY: WARCRY
The story of Quattro Cerberus was written when their strongest member tried to fight Elfman, lost, and the guild was forced to change their name to Quatro Puppy. Warcry isn’t much better either, as his special ability is Crying Magic—poking fun at how shonen characters often get stronger after shedding tears. When Warcry cries, he gains access to some powerful spells...supposedly. The truth is, we have no idea what he gets because he was up against Orga, the Lightning God Slayer, who immediately took him out before he could use anything.
8 MERMAID HEEL: BETH VANDERWOOD
They did Mermaid Heel dirty. The only all-girl guild in the series we know of, and it’s essentially full of scrubs and its relevance is buoyed by how powerful Kagura is.
Probably the weakest member of them all though is Beth, who’s special ability is Vegetable Magic. This lets her sprout different veggies from the ground and use them for battle, like she did against Gray with her Carrot Missiles. This is such a linear ability that it’s no wonder we’ve never really seen her in legitimate combat.
7 LAMIA SCALE: TOBY HORHORTA
Rule #1: never put your trust in someone named Toby. But all jokes aside, Toby is probably not really all that weak, it’s just that Lamia Scale is full of some powerful mages. With Fairy Tail gone, they were considered the second most powerful behind Sabertooth, with good reason. The guild has characters like Lyon, who trained alongside Gray, Jura, one of the Wizard Saints, and Sherria Blendy, a Sky God Slayer. Toby’s pretty strong—he can dispel powerful magics and has a paralysis claw which can kill a man...but that’s simply just not enough to rank above his fellow guildmates.
6 PHANTOM LORD: SOL
Sol was meant to be a member of Phantom Lord’s Element 4, the strongest of their guild members, all of whom lead the vanguard on the attack against Fairy Tail. But despite all of their bragging about the power of the Element 4, few of them actually proved impressive. Sol took advantage of Elfman’s inability to use his Take Over powers on more than one limb at a time, but all this succeeded in doing was helping Elfman reach the peak of his abilities. Other than that, he’s only capable of throwing rocks with his Earth magic and manipulating Sand a bit...he’s a vastly weaker version of the Alvarez Empire’s Ajeel.
5 RAVEN TAIL: KUROHEBI
It’s difficult to pick the weakest member of team Raven Tail, because we didn’t get to see much of them, and what we saw of them often involved tricks. Flare Corona managed to beat Lucy soundly, but only by threatening a child’s life. The only thing we know is that Kurohebi was powerful enough to beat Toby, but not nearly enough to beat Fairy Tail’s S-Class Lightning Dragon Slayer, even with the assistance of the rest of his guild.
4 BLUE PEGASUS: ICHIYA VANDALAY KOTOBUKI
The strength of Blue Pegasus as a guild is difficult to quantify, because they aren’t used in attacking positions often enough. This is why the Trimens never get to differentiate and prove who’s the strongest.
But while Ichiya is said to be quite powerful, the truth is he’s used as comedic relief more often than not and as a result, he rarely ever wins any fights. We do know he’s got some powerful offensive magic, however, more than enough to blow through most of the other fighters on this list.
3 FAIRY TAIL: JET AND DROY
Fairy Tail doesn’t have very many in the way of weak members. It’s pretty difficult for that to happen when they’re constantly being challenged by Dark Guilds and dragons and entire countries. But Fairy Tail’s Shadow Gear pairing is likely the least impressive of them all. Jet’s got super speed, which is excellent but he rarely uses it, and Droy has Plant magic which is neat but is only used as support magic. In either case, they just don’t get the job done enough.
2 CAIT SHELTER: WENDY
Cait Shelter was made up of, really, three members. The lead member, who was so powerful he was capable of using his magic to simulate an entire fake guild that Wendy was able to interact with and not even realize they were real-life NPCs. Then there was Carla, who was an Exceed capable of offering strategic advice, shapeshifting, and seeing the future. Lastly, there was Wendy, a powerful young Dragon Slayer with zero experience at what she did and little confidence as well. Though Wendy in Fairy Tail would become one of their best members, Wendy here was by far the weak link.
1 CRIME SORCIERE: SORANO
It’s weird to have Sorano here because much like Yugi’s grandfather’s deck, Crime Sorciere doesn’t have any useless members in it. They’re a group of former villains who decided they didn’t want to go to jail and they’d do a bunch of dangerous missions to atone for their prior bad behavior. In that group, Sorano is arguably the weakest of them all because she lost all three of her Gold Keys to Lucy after losing that fight. However, she still maintains Angel Magic, essentially a different kind of summoning, which makes her a viable threat. Crime Sorciere’s made up of so few members which are all dangerous, even their weakest member would be one of the strongest in another guild.