Summary

Luffy’s strength in One Piece includes all three Haki forms and Awakened Devil Fruit.
The entire Straw Hat crew could likely defeat Luffy due to teamwork and creativity.
Power gap between Luffy and weaker crew members revealed in key battles like Enies Lobby.

Power scaling in One Piece has always sparked some interesting debates. Overall, One Piece is a generally light-hearted story, where far weaker characters defeat much stronger opponents using strange techniques, and a little bit of luck. Most of the time, the winner of a fight isn’t always going to be the strongest character, as any number of factors, such as difficult terrain or help from friends, can give the weaker opponent a massive advantage. Due to this, it’s always a bit difficult to pick out who would win among the various characters of One Piece.

However, this doesn’t stop fans from constantly debating about their favorite matchups between the strongest One Piece characters. One such matchup that constantly comes up time and time again is a fight between Luffy and the entire Straw Hat Crew. Although Luffy has grown to be quite strong over the years, many people consider a fight between Luffy and the Straw Hats to be an interesting, and close, battle.

While Robin’s Devil Fruit is an important part of his character in One Piece, fans still don’t know how she got it.

Luffy And The Straw Hats Are An Extremely Strong Pirate Crew In One Piece

The Crew Is A Powerful That Works Well Together

Luffy, being an Emperor in One Piece, holds a good deal of power. Possessing all three forms of Haki, including Advanced forms of all three, is an insanely powerful combatant. Additionally, his Awakened Devil Fruit, the Human-Human Fruit Model: Sun God Nika is extremely strong, giving Luffy the ability to turn the surrounding environment into rubber. This makes for some extremely fast, strong, and creative attacks, though it does come with a fairly strict time limit.

Don’t you dare make my navigator cry! – Luffy

As for the other Straw Hats, the top three fighters, Zoro, Sanji, and Jinbe, all possess strong Haki and incredible fighting abilities. Additionally, someone like Franky, while being decently strong, also possesses a diverse and powerful arsenal of equipment to deal with strong foes. Next, Robin and Brook’s interesting Devil Fruits are extremely powerful support abilities for a fight. Finally, although they may be weaker than the rest, Chopper, Nami, and Usopp are very good planners, and are able to quickly pinpoint the weakness in their opponents.

Luffy Would Most Likely Lose Against The Straw Hat Crew

The Teamwork Of The Crew Can Defeat Far Stronger Opponents

Despite Luffy’s Power Difference Luffy Would Most Likely Lose
The Straw Hats Crew’s Combined Strength And Ingenuity Surpasses Luffy

Overall, as he currently stands in One Piece, Luffy is definitely a fair amount stronger than someone like Zoro, the character many would consider to be the next strongest of the crew. However, as many fans have pointed out, when it comes to power differences between crew members, the Straw Hats resemble Shanks’s Red Hair Pirates in the fact that every crew member is fairly equal in strength. While there may be a bit of a power gap now, many of the Straw Hats are most likely way stronger than they appear but haven’t had the chance to show off their latest attacks in a fight yet.

A look into the various Great Grade Blades that have currently been identified in One Piece

Still, outside of this speculation, overall, in a fight between the Straw Hat Crew and Luffy, the Straw Hat Crew is most likely going to be victorious. Although many people believe that Luffy could quickly take out the weaker crew members to get them out of the way before launching a stronger attack, characters like Sanji and Zoro are far too close to Luffy in terms of power to just let him freely take out Nami or Usopp. At the same time, while Nami or Usopp would most likely be defeated in one or two hits, their individual attacks are still strong enough to cause serious damage to Luffy.

The Weakest Straw Hat Is Closer To Luffy In Power Than Most Think

On Enies Lobby Usopp Was Almost Equal To Luffy

Although he was much weaker back then, many fans were surprised to see how close Usopp came to defeating Luffy on One Piece’s Enies Lobby. Now, with eight far stronger characters teaming up on Luffy as well, it would be an entirely different story. Despite the gap in power being a bit bigger than it was before, the number of Straw Hat Crew members has increased by three strong members since then as well, adding Brook, Franky, and Jinbe.

I wanna live in a world where all my friends can eat all the meat they want! – Luffy

Though it would be close overall, a 1v9 fight between a strong Emperor of the Sea and one of the strongest crews in all of One Piece is a bit unfair. If the fight was a series of 1v1 encounters back-to-back, Luffy may have a much better chance and would most likely win, but fighting everyone at the same time may be too much for Luffy as he currently stands. In the end, however, Luffy would never fight the Straw Hat Crew, outside an extraordinary and unlikely circumstance.