User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 935: Disaster at Udon/@comment-25654036-20190308093055/@comment-2600:1702:3C50:A6E0:4976:20F2:16B:79D2-20190311163141

There seem to be a number of assumptions regarding Luffy's strength. People seem to assume that take away his devil fruit powers and he is no different then any other normal person. They forget that Garp trained Luffy when he was young so that he would have the will to keep going no matter what. In addition, if Luffy's devil fruit power was all he had then he wouldn't be able to do much. Give a weak person this fruit and their punches will get slightly stronger, don't forget that his ability was originally discounted as useless because all it did was absorb a little blunt impact. He made it strong through his improvising, training, and usage of it. That strength that goes into his punches remains even without the usage of his fruit. As for the Yonko officers, they overestimate themselves. They have gotten used to getting by on their reputation and think that they are untouchable because of it. There have been those in both paradise and the new world with that belief. This causes them to assume that they are powerful even though they lack power compared to the elites.