I'm not sure, that's why I made this poll, however if I were to choose it would be after the timeskip, cuz he has more powers and forms, I think gear 2 is my fav

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Pre time skip had luffys best transformation that can even surpass gear five

Honestly they are both the same. Just one is stronger.

Definitely pre-timeskip for me. So much more humor.

I was dying when Franky pulled out Franky centaur for the first time

Pre timeskip for me

Pre timeskip

Luffy jokes just aren't the same after time skip 😔

Actually, even the powers IMO pre-timeskip also takes the cake. The fight between devil fruit powers was kind of what got me into this series. Then they resort to the system of haki, and a very vague one at that (compared to, say, Hunter x Hunter). It's basically turned into a plot device.