User blog comment:Lasaro Ginjou/Gears to come.../@comment-29997233-20161011130943/@comment-5536072-20161030000832

Wellll.... I'm pretty sure they are supposed to be their elements all the time like how Paramecia that change the body and stay like that all the time. Luffy is rubber even when asleep or unconscious. BUT!!! There have been cases the show otherwise. In Arabasta, Luffy jumps in a restaurant sending both Smoker and Ace flying a few building away, neither turning into their elements. But those, probably, were simply for comedy relief like when Nami injures Luffy with punches every time he does something stupid. Same might have happened with Ceasar. What chapter is it that Chopper hits him?