User blog comment:Imhungry4444/How strong is he really?/@comment-1712781-20110719090804

As for now, although we don't quite understand Haki's nullifying effects on Logia's completely yet, it is clear that even though it can counteract DF's intangibility, it still comes down to a battle of Haki's first, which you need to permeate to get at their corporeal form, since Akainu's was strong enough to resist Vista and Marco's attacks. So POST timeskip Luffy? Even taking into account any evolution Magellan made, as stated by others he showed no predisposition towards haki, not predicting or armoring jack shit..so its pretty clear that Luffy would prevail, being equal to and close to surpassing Shichibukai level now. Besides, as much as i laugh my ass off at his dump-taking antics, he just isn't up there with the level of characters & villains we've come to expect in OP, and if he does have a recurring role, it would likely be a bit part or fodder to show how much the grinding payed off for Luffy.