User blog comment:Kaizokuking/Devil Fruits/@comment-3089665-20100926185324/@comment-1211470-20100926214005

"It's skill based only. "

To quoth the crocodile. No devil fruit is innately more powerful then anyother. It's power is derived from how it is used by the one who ate it, for this reason someone with a fruit considered weak can defeat someone with a fruit considered strong.

I paraphrase of course but it was to that effect