User blog comment:Raptor of Love/Who do you prefer Hody jones or Arlong ?/@comment-110.174.62.53-20121110101619

Hody is stronger than Arlong even without the steroids. Its been already noted by Ussop in the anime. Also Arlong only has brute style attacks while Hody actually has Fishman Karate.

Hody is even smarter than Arlong. He formulated the plan really well and even recruited Hyouzou and convinced Vander Decken IX to form an alliance, these two was approached by Arlong be he is unsuccessful as said by Hachi. Hody also gather up 100,000 men to fight against the Strawhats.