User blog comment:Kunoichi101/One Piece Anime Hiatus/@comment-26112106-20200503145936/@comment-108.83.222.210-20200505013010

Luffy is their distraction, he will be his usual chaotic self and that will work into their plan. His job at Whole Cake was to cause chaos and he certainly did that well. Really, the characters seem to be getting better at factoring him into their ideas.