Gator blades make clippings smaller, as by design.
they also don't throw them as far out of the deck, as the "fingers" on the blade have less lift and ability to get them out of the deck, but do chop them into smaller pieces.
The real answer in thick heavy grass is to mow more often, and nobody wants to hear or do that.
Gator blades do get rid of leaves by making them disappear if they are dry and you go over the leaves keeping up with leaf fall.
Do not let them pile up and expect them to go away in one pass.
I have on several occasions swapped regular blades with gators back and forth as a test to see the actual effect and these are my results.
hope it helps.
oh one more thing.
As the "fingers" on gator blades wear, and become dull they are less effective on making shorter clippings.
