User blog comment:Dettles/I dont think Smoker should have become VA during thee time skip./@comment-3177613-20130216191634/@comment-5962458-20130217004354

those battles you are reffering to are filler.The only real battles were FI and PH, were except for the Luffy vs Jones battle all the others were easy K.O.s by the strawhats.And against Hody luffy had the disadvantage of the sea water so thats why it was a bit difficult.

Plus how come smoker is stronger that Ace?? We don't know if Ace could use haki or how profient he was at it.