User blog comment:Keekian/Will OP be better if Luffy was smarter?/@comment-24850639-20170417180300/@comment-28966845-20170418091458

"Dumb or stupid aren't fair words for Luffy, because he literally always demonstrates the contrary when the moment calls for it"

Exactly... Luffy acts smart only when his survival instinct is tingling... The rest of the time tho he is acting pretty dumb :3