User blog comment:Ricizubi/Luffy's Evolution and why becoming pirate king is going to be quite a storytelling challenge/@comment-32700121-20180427183013

I'm really failing to see the problem here, are you saying it won't make sense for Luffy to be the strongest character in the series, or that it would be difficult for oda to justify Luffy being the strongest character in the series? Either way both questions are easily answerable. Luffy is only 19 years old and is already on the same level as a yonko commander, the only people above him are yonko and admirals, logically speaking Luffy shouldn't just surpass everyone but he should surpass them with ease. If we consider his age and the fact that he only knows the basics of haki yet can compete with someone like katakuri who is a top tier and has decades of experience, yes it makes perfect sense for Luffy to be the strongest character ever as he is so strong yet has so much room to grow. Regarding the second question, Luffy isn't far below the admirals/yonko, if he can compete with Katakuri then he can also compete with admirals and the yonko but to a lesser extent. In terms of power ups there is additional gears, awakening and greater mastery of haki. Already Luffy has upped his level of observation haki, now imagine his armament haki gets better too, now imagine he gets a gear 5 and/or awakening, I mean tbh all of these things are overkill these won't put him on the level of a yonko they will put him comfortably above the yonko. Considering how strong gear 4 is, a gear 5 alone would make him yonko level, add in awakening and better haki it's very easy for oda to make Luffy strong enough to beat any final boss