User blog comment:Neowitch/686 - You're hot when you're cold/@comment-1454981-20121024143013/@comment-81.170.200.102-20121024145535

He will become stronger as the series progress and at the end, or at least somewhere near it, when its time for the big fight he will be able to take on Akainu alone. Thats how things usually goes with protagonists of shonen mangas like OP.