User blog comment:Pacifista15/Seriously, Luffy?/@comment-3202520-20111123075930/@comment-3119203-20111123201827

Alright, lets do some more analysis, MJ. All of the facts I am going to present are pre-timeskip.

Enies Lobby: Luffy gets defeated by Rob Lucci, travels to Enies Lobby, takes down over a thousand soldiers, defeats Blueno of the CP9 (800 douriki), and defeats Rob Lucci of the CP9 (4000 douriki, about 40 times stronger than the avergae human and the strongest CP9 member to date). Over the course of this, he uses Gear Second at least three times and Gear Third twice.

Impel Down/Marineford: Luffy is clubbed by a jailer beast, poisoned and nearly killed by Magellan, undergoes the healing procedure of Ivankov, which also nearly kills him, is slammed to the ground by Blackbeard, goes to Marineford and is cut by marines, sliced by Mihawk and Momonga, stabbed by Aokiji, lasered and kicked by Kizaru, shiganed by Dalmation, and punched by Sengoku, yet is still up and running even after this. During the course of these events, he defeated countless Marines and jailers, fought some of the strongest characters in the series (Blackbeard, the admirals, Crocodile, Mihawk, etc.) and used Gear Second and Third dozens of times.

Is this not stressful enough for you? After all of these events, he couldnt take a bite and use one attack? That makes no sense.