User blog comment:Mythical zoan fruit enthusiast/For those who want Luffy to have Mera Mera and Gomu Gomu/@comment-3402624-20130506234841

You guys seem to forget who luffy is facing at the end of this arc, either Big Mam or Kaido. And the mera mera fruit will be a huge factor in their victory, whether luffy has it or not, this fruit will be apart of the SH crew. How else did you expect Oda to let luffy beat his first Yonkou, the same way he let luffy beat all his stronger enemies, an incentive. Crocodile, Enel, Moriah etc. were all beaten cause of a crazy circumstance or coincidence.