[Official One Piece Manga Thread] Ch 737 Up!

[Talal]

Mr Khan said:

Talal said:

We've seen enough to know that his crew is still no where near Admiral level and Doflamingo is. Doflamingo beat Smoker, Sanji and Law effortlessly. There's no way Luffy can win a straight up fight. Unless Doflamingo gets super trolled, which might happen since Luffy managed to beat Crocodile and Enel even though both were a lot stronger, but I don't think he'll beat Doflamingo yet. 

I don't think Doffy's quite at Admiral level either. Law was fatigued from running hax across the Punk Hazard Arc, as i imagine he could have put up more of a fight (not won, but not lost as badly as he did) otherwise.

The Crocodile analogy is a good point (or perhaps Moria), someone who is definitely stronger, but can be outfought through a combination of smart tactics and sheer gumption.

Yeah, Doflamingo being Admiral level is debatable and I do think that he's in the lower end of the tier. We saw Doflamingo's confidence in the Marineford arc. He was toying with Jozu who gave Aokiji a good fight. Also when he was confronted by Aokiji recently even though he did retreat it was more of a "It isn't worth fighting Kuzan" rather than an "I need to leave before he kills me" so that to me implies that he wasn't very threatend by Kuzan, but for the record I think that Kuzan would have kicked his ass. :p