User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 930: Germa Sanji/@comment-110.141.76.1-20190119075338/@comment-2600:8807:C00:53D0:6D9F:18B9:E0C:2480-20190122070012

Still, no denying he has lost some of his cool factor since the timeskip. I mean, compare the thrashing he gave Kuroobi, the creative fight he had with Wanze and the fight against Jabra to any of the fights he has had over the timeskip.

Sure, he has plot relevance, but at the same time his status as a member of the Monster Trio is harder to take seriously when he doesn't engage in fights as much as the other two. Granted, Zoro has had the opposite problem of only getting boring fights that are just him messing around at first, then beat in one to two attacks with some one-liner. Here's hoping this arc can give both of them real fights, they need it.