User blog comment:AYET/Luffy post-TS : The battle above FI/@comment-4800978-20120626062447/@comment-4754162-20120627054549

Maybe its just me expecting something fresh in this first battle (post-TS) of his.

In the past, he has dealt with the people like Lucci (having strength and endurance) and had to pull everything he had (strength and endurance) to just get over him (Lucci). Now, Hody is (in a way) another Lucci - having strength and endurance thanks to the ES pills minus techniques, but instead of matching strength to strength and endurance to endurance with Hody, I was expecting something creative from him to fight against such an opponent. In the end, its (still) brute strength wins the day. If I am not mistaken, all these times he relied on brute strength to win his fights, for once I was expecting something different but still the same.

You are right though, Oda should not make the protagonist to be somewhat overpowered post TS, otherwise the story will no longer be good. But still... IDK...