@LightningAce:
Unless the 2 of them have someone developed haki in the past 2 years, there is not a chance in hell they'd beat a Logia type user. He is a logia user, no way Oda would just reveal a chracter with a logia…just to be fodder for Luffy**….all the logia's we've seen so far have been major characters in the story...**.he is being greatly underestimated. Just because Luffy has haki now…don't mean he's gonna just walk all over every oppenent he goes up against..
I know this is an out there theory...i just keep gettin the feelin he's 1 of those level 6 prisoners that escaped 2 years ago......its 99.9% unlikely...but ya never know...
And this is part two of the series so maybe you should throw old notions out the window. Luffy isn't going to be slowed down by some violent Rookie who is really nothing more than the type of psycho people thought Kidd was with a fruit that used to be hax but current effectiveness will have been balanced out.
Mantra was the only thing that protected Enel from not getting his ass kicked, Croc was a Warlord, and Ace&Admirals are special. Smoker will be the Logia Luffy is unable to easily bulldoze through because he'll be experienced kicking NW captain ass and may even shown some basic signs of Haki himself. Coribou will probably be put in his place without any SH throwing a serious punch. I think Oda is setting Luffy up to be like a Yonkou who can achieve a lot now without the need of force.