User blog comment:Imhungry4444/How strong is he really?/@comment-1712781-20110719085824/@comment-24.254.83.121-20110719230118

@Marcus Junior: Not really seeing what your point is man, but yes- Luffy has improved with every arc since the get-go..that's a given. But regardless of if he does the attack at level 10 or 1000, with the legitimate foes it equals out more or less to the same matchup, 10 vs 12 or 10,000 vs 12,000, either the attack does 10/100 damage or 100/1000 damage..do you catch my drift? Regardless, it was just an arbitrary example and not the heart of the matter, the point of the example was to show that unless used as his finishing move, enemies who would be similar in power difference to Luffy as Magellan was, were not felled to a knee in agonizing pain.

But either way, it still stands that Magellan could not, and would not be able to defeat and/or surpass an Admiral or equal level foe, yet remains one of the small few antagonists to go unbested by Luffy in pure combat and that's saying a lot. Personally I'm throwing my lot in with others in hoping Smoker is the new admiral, and Aokiji did suggest him as his replacement as Sengoku did for him (assuming he did indeed get the position)