User blog comment:AYET/Dressrosa arc - Zoro vs Issho - the abandoned plot/@comment-24769684-20140707200510/@comment-99.243.47.188-20140708020248

SMH, powerlevel debating..this a shonen manga remember?! Anybody who is "strong" will only be as strong (or weak) as they need to be when the plot demands it...Oda isn't ever showing the big guns at full strength because he doesn't want the power-levels to get all screwed up and inconsistent like other shonen. When this arc is over, Oda will make sure to keep it ambiguous as to who's the strongest (much like he did with the war of the best), so he can decide who is stronger later. Doflamingo may (probably will) push Luffy to his limits, but he will lose. And after that, we still won't know how "strong" Doflamingo is compared to an admiral or most of the other big guns (EG Hawkeye, Garp, Rayleigh). We know he can defeat Law, but he had help from Issho, we know he can curb-stomp Sanji, Smoker and Moriah, and that he's confident that Issho won't be a problem he can't handle.