User blog comment:Neowitch/Capability Check - Team Buggy/@comment-3119203-20111123034725/@comment-4493594-20111123173410

Sure. Otherwise he would be just another cliche hero and One Piece would be just another cliche shonen series where the heroes can't lose. This is 2011. The audience demand realism. And that a victory is so much more satisfying if the hero failed to take the bad guy down before.