User blog comment:Imhungry4444/How strong is he really?/@comment-1712781-20110719085824/@comment-3202520-20110719134227

good explanation indeed but example 1 is not completely correct

You mentioned luffy bringed him to his knees using a g2 gomu gomu no bazooka i agree but comparing it to the crocodile incident can't be done cause they were done in diferent time lines

for beter explanation here is a simple example: luffy fought against buggy and won; luffy fought against rob lucci and won

Lucci is obviously a lot stronger than buggy yet luffy fighted them as main enemies but luffy had others fights before the fight with lucci that made him stronger normally and he even created gear 2 which amplifies his abilities far more this said:

you canoot compare the normal luffy against crocodile using that attack with the trained luffy using gear second using the same attack

they have completely diferent power levels but who knows if luffy had gear 2 in alabasta he could have won far more easily