User blog comment:AYET/Will Luffy accept assistance/@comment-10543621-20150408080433

The thing about Luffy's all out fights where he ends up winning is, there's usually a very strong reason, usually a personal sort of thing that makes him decide that this is an opponent he has to defeat no matter what. Thus far, all the opponents he has gone all out and come out victorious, they tend to be nakama driven.Those driven by his own crewmembers include Kuro (Usopp), Krieg (Sanji), Arlong (Nami), Wapol (Chopper), Lucci (Robin and Franky) and Moriah (Brook). Others are driven by a heavy desire to save people he hold dear or friends that matter even if they're not crew members, usually accompanied by large number of innocents he wants to protect/save. These include Crocodile (Vivi and Alabasta citizens), Enel (Conis and skypeia citizens), Hody (Shirahoshi and various mermaid friends like Keimi etc).

Apart from Hody, most of his other enemies were either above him where he pushed himself to succeed, or at least a good match to his strength at that point of time. The times he was completely overwhelmed include Aokiji, Kizaru and Magellan, all of which, he did not have a major driving force to have to defeat the said opponent. Against the Admiral, the main point was trying to escape. One might argue that he had a reason to defeat Magellan, namely to save Ace, but his original intentions of sneaking into Impel Down wasn't to defeat the boss. If it were possible, he would have rather saved Ace without encountering Magellan. The key difference here was that there wasn't an "Everyone is depending on me to defeat this person" kind of driving force. Magellan is not the person that will be responsible for ruining Ace's life. Also, being alone and not among his trusted crewmembers would have played a role as well. I see the strawhats as a form of stoic encouragement to him just by their presence. Of course, Magellan was probably leagues above Luffy at that point as well.

In this case, I think Doflamingo clearly falls into the category of the list of enemies he will go all out to crush and will suceed in doing so. The other important factor is, Luffy himself KNOWS when he has a chance to defeat an opponent and when he completely doesn't. Before he mastered Haki, he realised that he had no means of defeating Logias like Smoker and the Admirals. He's been shown trying to escape from these individuals he knew were impossible to win. The idea now is Doflamingo might still be stronger, but he's in the defeatable range. The only other parallel would of course be Crocodile, where Luffy certainly had no chance of winning had he not figured out the possibility of using water as Crocodile's weakness.

In conclusion, I think Luffy may get some assistance here and there, but I definitely don't see the possibility of any tag team fight against Doflamingo. He wlll definitely need a proper all out fight against him. At the most, I'm only expecting Sabo to finish off Trebol (if he's still in action) and bring Law out of harms way so that Luffy can focus himself instead of being constantly distracted by the chance of Law getting his skull crushed.