User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 781: The Sosuke Aizen Effect/@comment-24850639-20150329155146

I almost think its safe to say Law's out of the picture of this fight now. I'd say that was probably the worst possible move Law could have pulled on Doffy in terms of damage, so if even that's useless, its time to sit his ass down somewhere. We all kinda knew this was Luffys fight to begin with anyway, I just thought Law would be the one to at least deal with Trebol in some kind of way. That reminds me, its really sad how useless Doffy's senior executives were. These guys were supposed to be the cream of the crop, yet the executives under them all did more and served greater purposes than them. Not to mention had waaaayy better fights. Pica never stood a chance against Zoro. Diamante would have been owned by Sabo before the DF, and then proceeds to get owned by a swordsman with one leg and no DF. Trebol is fodder to Law/Luffy/Sabo, and Vergo.....yeah. When your boss is THAT awesome, I just think there's an unwritten rule that at least SOME of your top henchmen be awesome too. Tsk tsk.

Anywho, as far as Doflamingo and Luffy goes, I really think Luffy has to step his haki game up big time. We've seen Mingo overpower his, and it only makes sense that his opponents will continue to have more powerful haki as he progresses. He also seems to be able to deal with gear 2nd and 3rd pretty casually, so as far as our database on known techniques go, Buso Haki really seems to be the only solution. The strength of it at least partially appears to have something to do with will, and we know Luffy never has any shortages in that department. As much as I keep hating to think about it, something of a "4th gear" variety involving haki really seems to make sense :-/.