User blog comment:Luffayking12/haki vs. brute strength/@comment-3425840-20120129112611

The title was really good, as for the content meh.....it ruined the title. First of all, I really get pissed when someone miss interprets well know information (I won't say that I don't ever do that, in fact in one of my blogs that became a major issue but nonetheless it pisses me off). LK12, 1st thing is, Ace was the 2nd Division Commander not the Second in Command. That implies that he was the boss of the 2nd division of the Whitebeard Pirates not the second strongest man of the crew. Now as PX said, officially all Division Commanders are equal (although everyone knows who the stronger ones are). I would not argue about how strong Ace was but I do think that he was definitely weaker than Marco.

Now for haki thingy, well, haki is one of many things that can boost your over all battle power. If you ask how can someone beat someone else with out haki, that would imply that haki is the only factor in a battle which is clearly not the case. As for the Boa Sisters, it was explained that their haki was not strong enough to hold grounds against the superior brute force + super speed of Gear Second. As for Enel, his haki was Kenbunshoku haki, and Luffy only managed to hit him with something that can't be predicted, or when he was not ready or when he had not place to dodge. I think this clears the confusions you had.