User blog comment:Dettles/I dont think Smoker should have become VA during thee time skip./@comment-5601098-20130216084042/@comment-5826675-20130216174242

yea i agree. smoker is on par with and even ahead of some vice admiral its just while he constantly chases Luffy who is a magnet for attention for stronger pirates and so smoker himself has ended up faceing them quite a bit, but so far he has held up preety well