User blog comment:Dinosel/Chapter 871: Big Mom used thunderbolt... It was super effective!/@comment-24850639-20170706181537/@comment-5398287-20170711205839

Well, if Oda does decide to have Sanji get his moment to shine before leaving the island, it'll probably be by taking down Daifuku or Oven or someone of a similar power level - not a Sweet Commander, certainly not Big Mom herself, but someone whom the crew still acknowledges as upper-tier. This will drive home to the Charlottes the fact that it's not just Luffy who is a threat to them, it's his crew as well.

Honestly, I kinda wish Oda hadn't created so much hype for the "Year of Sanji" - if he'd just said we'd finally be exploring his past and motivations and such, that would've been fine and not created an expectation for him to pull off something insane, which would've been nice because I'm really enjoying how different the Straw Hats & allies vs. the Charlottes is going so far: unlike Arlong's crew, Baroque Works, Enel's team, CP9, Moriah's crew, and Doflamingo's crew, there's no "let's split up and fight the opponent who's roughly at our power level, barely managing to come out on top" situation that usually drives the fight matchups. Don't get me wrong, a lot of those fights are still awesome, but this feels like a Marineford situation for Luffy AND everyone allied with him, where they're realizing just how out of their depth they are at their current level of power (maybe the Minks' full moon thing will come into play to even the odds, idk) and it's much more realistic than some people's projections of Luffy taking down Big Mom here and now before he moves on to Kaido. And Sanji's expected "big moment" is kinda ruining that vibe.