Mage Levels: Canonical Examples

[Merc]

These are all based before the time skip in the manga, which obviously hasn't happened here. This is also to be taken as as more of a suggestion of the power your character might have, just to give you a better idea of where you stand. Obviously, it's rather hard to rank characters fairly, given various conditions, but, given the list below you should at least have a vague idea of what your character is capable of.

---- Training ----
lvl 1: Bora (first appearance)
lvl 2: Vanish Brothers (first appearance)
lvl 3: Erigor (first appearance)
lvl 4: Yuka (first appearance)
---- Average ----
lvl 5: Lyon (first appearance)
lvl 6: Juvia (first appearance)
lvl 7: Aria (first appearance)
lvl 8: Gajeel (first appearance)
---- Intermediate ----
lvl 9: Ikaruga (first appearance)
lvl 10: Jellal (first appearance)
lvl 11: Fried (first appearance)
lvl 12: Luxus (first appearance)
---- Advanced ----
lvl 13: Cobra (first appearance)
lvl 14: Midnight (first appearance)
lvl 15: Zero (first appearance)
lvl 16: Caprico (first appearance)
---- Master ----
vl 17: Rusty Rose (first appearance)
lvl 18: Ultear (first appearance)
lvl 19: Azuma (first appearance)
lvl 20: Gildarts (is awesome)

*To be taken with a grain of salt, as stated above.