User blog comment:Dark Doctor/Jinbe vs. Luffy/@comment-178.118.121.7-20110621142004/@comment-85.94.151.217-20110621153144

I'm sorry, but by what logic should Jinbe win? I mean, Fishman Island is only the 2nd arc in the 2nd half of One Piece. I mean only 30 chapters have passed since the timeskipand Luffy should already lose to someone who wasn't THAT much stronger than him in the first place? Seriously? I'm not exactly disrespecting Jinbe though. I know he's strong, probably the strongest fishman we've seen so far. He was able to fight Ace for 5 days, to oneshot the Demon Guards, he was able to severely damage the Marine's battleships with his Fishman Karate, he had the upper hand in the short fight with Moriah, he was able to stop Luffy in Gear 2nd and then later when he was rampaging while injured on Amazon Lily and what's most impressive, he stopped an attack from Akainu (which could indicate that he has CoA) and survived the magmafisting. Jinbe isn't weak and I know that very well and he may have even improved somewhat during these 2 years. But Luffy was trained by Rayleigh in all 3 colors of Haki and has become physically a lot stronger than he was before. He also seems to have eliminated the weaknesses of his Gears so he can use his Devil Fruit abilities to their maximum potential. Before the timeskip, Rayleigh said to him there were about 500 beasts on Rusukaina Island that even Luffy, who managed to somehow overcome 2 Warlords, couldn't beat. After the timeskip they were his obedient pets. No one can deny at this point that Luffy has considerably improved. The only opponents whom he didn't steamroll over so far was Hyozou, and Decken who did manage to get up after Luffy knocked him out with his hands tied. I just think that it's too early for Luffy to be seriously challenged, even though Jinbe is certainly the only one on the island (whom we've seen so far) who could possibly provide a real challenge. Anyway, tomorrow we'll see what happens.