User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Unique Gomu Gomu/@comment-3181121-20120301091106/@comment-3181121-20120301104030

Actually chopper still counts even in water. You're focussing on the wrong aspect of choppers df, the transformations, and disregard the foremost aspect: His human intelligence, which he gained through his devil fruit and doesn't lose when he gets thrown in the water.