Monkey D. Luffy (Pre-Timeskip)

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==Summary==
Monkey D. Luffy, known as "Straw Hat Luffy", is the main protagonist of the manga and anime, One Piece. He's the son of Monkey D. Dragon, a revolutionary considered “The World's Most Dangerous Criminal”; the grandson of Monkey D. Garp, a powerful Marine Vice-Admiral who had cornered the late Pirate King himself on several occasions; the sworn brother of late "Fire Fist" Portgas D. Ace and Revolutionary chief of staff Sabo; and the foster son of Curly Dadan. He seeks to find One Piece and become the Pirate King; to accomplish this, he founded the Straw Hat Pirates and set out on the high seas at age 17 in search of the elusive treasure, beginning a series of increasingly odd and dangerous adventures. He has eaten the Gomu Gomu no Mi, which gives him stretching powers that he has become quite a master of and he's quite creative with them as he has developed two unique techniques with them: Gear 2nd, which makes him much faster, and Gear 3rd, which allows him to inflate any body parts for a stronger attack. 
His dream of becoming the Pirate King comes from an incident in his youth involving mountain bandits and a Sea King that resulted in his idol Shanks losing his left arm. Before leaving Luffy's village the very next day, Shanks gave him his straw hat, telling him to give it back when he's become a great pirate.
He is infamous for being the only known pirate to not only deliberately attack the three most important government facilities, but also escape from all of them alive. The additional fact that he punched a World Noble with full knowledge of the consequences, as well as his heritage, has caused Luffy to be labeled as a “Dangerous Future Element”. He's also counted as a member of "The Worst Generation", a group of 10 other rookie pirates plus Marshall D. Teach who are all considered being major figures in shaping the New Age of Piracy following the Paramount War.
Luffy has his own signature laughter style, which is "Shishishishishi~".
As of East Blue, his bounty was 30,000,000 berries. As of Alabasta, his bounty was 100,000,000 berries. As of Enies Lobby, his bounty was 300,000,000 berries. As of the Marineford War, his bounty was 400,000,000 berries.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: | At least | , with Gum-Gum Storm | , with Golden Rifle | | , with Gear 2nd, higher with Gear 3rd | , higher with Gears, as Nightmare Luffy | At least , higher with Gears 
Key: Young | East Blue Saga | Alabasta Saga | Skypiea Arc | Water 7 Arc | Enies Lobby Arc | Thriller Bark Arc | Paramount War Saga
Name: Monkey D. Luffy, Straw Hat Luffy
Origin: One Piece
Gender: Male
Age: 17
Classification: Human, Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Supernova, Paramecia Devil Fruit User
Powers and Abilities: 
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Attack Potency: Wall level (Defeated a tiger that was this strong alongside Ace and Sabo) | At least Multi-City Block level (Capable of fighting Arlong) | Town level (Fought, matched and overpowered Crocodile), City level with Gum-Gum Storm (His Gum-Gum Storm destroyed a large chunk of bedrock, and even then it managed to level an isolated section of Alubarna) | Small City level (Equal to Roronoa Zoro. Was capable of harming Wyper, and fought against him equally for a long period of time. Casually superior to his Burn Bazooka, which is this strong, forcing Wyper to equip a breath dial. Destroyed his shield with a Gomu Gomu no Bazooka. Over time, he got strong enough to where he could fight evenly with Enel, and he caught his trident while he tried to stab him), City level with Golden Rifle (His Golden Rifle is strong enough to move the Golden Bell) | Small City level (At least as strong as before) | City level (Capable of easily harming Blueno through his Tekkai, and matched Blueno's Rokushiki techniques with regular attacks of his own. And although weaker than Lucci with Rokushiki, Luffy has shown to be equally matched with him in raw physical strength, implying he has a comparable Doriki), Mountain level with Gear 2nd (Drew blood from and knocked down Base Rob Lucci, and he could match his Hybrid Form blow-for-blow), higher with Gear 3rd (Far stronger than Gear 2nd. Nearly one-shot Hybrid Form Lucci through his Tekkai with a Gigant Pistol) | Large Mountain level (Matched a kick from Hybrid Lucci and even forced him to use Tekkai to block a Gum Gum Rifle, but is overall weaker), Large Mountain level+ with Gears (Stronger than before. As the strongest Straw Hat, his strongest technique should be superior to the strongest techniques of others like Diable Jambe Sanji and Asura Zoro. With Gear 3rd, could destroy a Pacifista that could withstand a combination of his Gear 2nd attacks, Zoro's Santoryu, and Sanji's Diable Jambe all focused on one Pacifista), Island level as Nightmare Luffy (Two or three shadows can enhance one's regular strength by four times, he was originally expected to be able to handle twenty or thirty but his body handled all one hundred shadows, making him at least greater than four times stronger. Physically superior to Oars and one-shot Gecko Moria) | Large Mountain level (Far stronger than his previous key), Large Mountain level+ with Gears (Could harm and bring Magellan to his knees with a Jet Bazooka. Pushed back Magellan’s Venom Demon with a Gigant Stamp w/ the assistance of Galdino)
Speed: Subsonic (Kept up with a tiger, which was this fast) | Hypersonic+ (Casually did this.One Piece Vol. 17 Chapter 151 Outran an explosion) | Massively Hypersonic (Far faster than before. Comparable to Zoro and Sanji, and superior to the likes of Nami.) | Massively Hypersonic+ (Moved this fast.One Piece Vol. 30 Chapter 279 Kept up with WyperOne Piece Vol. 28 Chapter 260) | Relativistic (Right after Skypiea, Luffy dodged Noro Noro beamsOne Piece Vol. 33 Chapter 316) | Relativistic (Much faster than before. Capable of outpacing BluenoOne Piece Vol. 40 Chapter 383 and was stated to match his Soru.One Piece Vol. 40 Chapter 385 Kept up with Rob LucciOne Piece Vol. 42 Chapter 409One Piece Vol. 43 Chapter 410), higher with Gear 2nd (Blitzed Blueno.One Piece Vol. 40 Chapter 388 Easily blitzed base Rob LucciOne Piece Vol. 43 Chapter 418 and is comparable to his Hybrid form), far higher with Soru (Outsped Lucci's Soru and got behind him with his own), lower with Gear 3rd (Stated to have decreased in speed while using Gear 3rdOne Piece Vol. 42 Chapter 422) | Relativistic (Dodged a laser from a Pacifista after it was already firedOne Piece Vol. 52 Chapter 508), higher with Gear 2nd (Landed a hit on the Pacifista alongside Zoro and Diable Jambe Sanji,One Piece Vol. 52 Chapter 509 and should be comparable to them), far higher with Soru, lower with Gear 3rd, far higher as Nightmare Luffy (Saves Usopp and Nami from Oars' attacks at FTE speeds that Oars and Moria didn't noticedOne Piece Vol. 49 Chapter 479) | Relativistic (Faster than before. Kept up with Magellan and dodged his attacks. Dodged a laser from a Pacifista while partially off guard.One Piece Vol. 58 Chapter 569 While injured, he dodged another laser alongside IvankovOne Piece Vol. 57 Chapter 560), Relativistic+ with Gear 2nd (Blitzed Magellan), far higher with Soru, lower with Gear 3rd
Lifting Strength: Class K (Swings with this much force) | Class G (Gripped Arlong's sword to the point of where he ) | Class G (Stronger than before) | Class G (Stronger than before) | Class T (Pulled the golden ball with this much force) | Class T (Stronger than before), higher with Gears (Luffy’s Gears greatly increases his Lifting Strength) | Class T (Stronger than before), higher with Gears (Luffy’s Gears greatly increases his Lifting Strength), at least Class T as Nightmare Luffy (Stronger than Oars)
Striking Strength: Wall level | At least Multi-City Block level | Town level (Overpowered Crocodile's Desert Spada with a single punch) | Small City level | Small City level | City level (Harm Blueno through his Tekkai and could fight roughly on par with Base Lucci), Mountain level with Gears (Knock out Blueno and could clash with the likes of Zoan Lucci. With Gear Third, he nearly one-shot Zoan Lucci even when he was using Tekkai) | Large Mountain level, Large Mountain level+ with Gears (Harmed Shadow Asgard Moria. Could clash with a Pacifista with Gear Two and finish it off with Gear Three), Island level as Nightmare Luffy (Sends Oars flying with a single punch) | Large Mountain level, Large Mountain level+ with Gears
Durability: Wall level (Took several hits from Porchemy, who was stronger than him) | At least Multi-City Block level (Tanked attacks from Kuro, Buggy and Arlong several times and kept fighting) | Town level (Took hits from Crocodile) | Small City level (Took multiple Burn Bazookas from Wyper, which were this strong) | Small City level (Can withstand the force of his own Bazooka as an internal shockwave and stays standing) | City level (Withstood many attacks from Base Rob Lucci), Mountain level with Gear Second (Tank blows from Zoan Rob Lucci) | Large Mountain level (Took many blows from Hybrid Lucci even when the latter used Rokushiki attacks, but is overall weaker), Large Mountain level+ with Gear Second (Could withstand attacks from Asgard Moria and a Pacifista), higher as Nightmare Luffy | Large Mountain level (Gets struck by the spiked mace of an Awakened Zoan but managed to get right back up. Gets smashes through a stone floor while his devil fruit powers are negated), Large Mountain level+ with Gear Second
Stamina: Superhuman (Has incredibly high endurance and recovery speed. Capable of lasting in brawls for nearly a dozen hours with no rest. During his more serious fights, Luffy has suffered life-threatening injuries that gave him severe internal bleeding and damage to his organs, and he could continue fighting with only moderate lapses. He only stops fighting when it is physically impossible for him to even move. He took several strikes from Rob Lucci that affected all of his organs and left him in a large puddle of his own blood, yet he could stand back up shortly after and withstand the same attack immediately after. After the Marineford War, Luffy suffered from severe physical and mental trauma due to the loss of his brother, his life-threatening injuries, and having to use adrenaline-based drugs more than once to keep fighting, only to merely pass out and go on a rampage several hours later immediately after going through surgery, and being in perfect condition some time after. Able to persevere with highly lethal poison coursing through his veins and with grave wounds, his stamina can be almost completely restored instantly if he eats meat)
Range: Tens of kilometers
Standard Equipment: 
*Straw Hat
*Big Katana (As Nightmare Luffy)
Intelligence:
Average normally, Genius in combat
Normally Luffy is very average, but in battle, he is a genius in his own right. He's shown a myriad of different qualities of intelligence ranging from unique creativity to quickly comprehending difficult situations. This was born from his training with his grandfather Monkey D. Garp, and his upbringing with his foster brothers Portgas D. Ace and Sabo. Alongside Garp, Luffy learned how to survive. Alongside Ace and Sabo, Luffy learned how to fight. Raised in the harsh environment of Mount Culubo with his brothers, he got stronger and smarter every passing day.
Luffy is extremely innovative and creative. As a child under the age of 6 years old, Luffy was forced to learn how to survive by getting thrown in ravines, being left in the wild alone and tied to balloons. Because of that, he taught himself how to hunt and cook meat to survive, showing his unnatural growth. When his ship was about to crash into Laboon, he shot a cannonball into the whale and used the recoil of its shockwave to stop his ship from colliding into Laboon. Luffy has been shown several times to create techniques on the spot by copying things that he has seen, whether it be an attack or an object. After seeing Genzo's pinwheel, Luffy made a technique inspired by it, where he uses all the force and weight of a sea beasts' huge body and spins it in a pinwheel formation to defeat several foes. He has great situational awareness, noticing a pole outside of a building in which he could stretch to dodge a plethora of daggers from Buggy. He used a rock in the ground to block a stab from Kuro. He threw a ship's mast at Krieg and stabbed Laboon with his own as well. He also stretches to retreat from fights occasionally, like when he took a small break from his raid on Enies Lobby to gain high ground in order to scout his enemies and his location, or when he grappled the top of Krieg's ship in order to dodge an explosion. He also noticed Buggy in a sandstorm and using him as a human shield in the heat of battle with the greatest swordsman in the world. He used a piece of a mirror in his hair to reflect Foxy's Noro Noro beams. While fighting Rob Lucci, he showcased this to a far superior extent, using large throwable objects like boxes to block his field of vision. He was capable of reading his fighting style, switching from long range to short range and vice versa whenever he preferred to use a specific ability, whether it was the close range tekkai and shigan or the long range soru and rankakyu.
Luffy created his own fighting style using the Gomu Gomu no Mi, which consists of several different types of techniques ranging from regular strikes to slams, deflecting attacks, making opponents dizzy, using snap-back attacks that redirect the force of opponents to use back at them, and more. He has a prodigious aptitude for battle and keenly seizes the developments of fights to his advantage and doesn't waste any movements during battle. During Enies Lobby, he created Gear 2nd, a transformation activated by manually doping his blood by pumping his legs and speeding up the blood flow, and Gear 3rd, a technique activated by pumping oxygen throughout his bones, both techniques taking advantage of his rubber body.
Luffy has the attitude of surpassing his enemies instead of just defeating them. This is attributed to his ability of reading the emotions of others, dubbed an "Absorptive power", allowing him to do many things from anticipating attacks to copying techniques by sight alone. He fights enemies by meeting them at full strength, and he uses their fighting style as food for growth. He was capable of copying the Soru technique just by seeing it once, even though the movement was superior to his reaction speed. He was able to dodge Blueno's attack from fresh out of a portal by anticipating his direction of movement.
Luffy is capable of switching back and forth from his regular strikes and rubber attacks. He is great at guarding barrage attacks, like when he blocks several kicks from Rob Lucci with a single arm, and he excels at exploiting openings in his enemies attacks. As his regular strikes are weaker than his Gomu Gomu attacks, he takes advantage of it to use it to land quick and effective strikes.
Luffy is an extremely skilled fighter, battling and defeating characters more durable than the attacks he could dish out (Krieg), faster and smarter than him (Kuro), can predict his movements (Enel), and with unorthodox skills that take years to master (CP9 like Rob Lucci). He's also fought against/alongside Roronoa Zoro, an extremely skilled swordsman in his own right who, while extremely injured, has been shown to block and dodge 6 swords coming from all directions. He fought and defeated Captain Kuro, the character with the second highest IQ in the East Blue. While he fought Don Krieg, to avoid his explosive spear he grabbed onto the shaft so he wouldn't be in the range of the explosion, then he destroyed it by punching it 5 times in the same spot. He has great precision rivaling Roronoa Zoro, who could cut a booger in half while drunk. Luffy quickly thinks of effective ways to get himself out of sticky situations and make the best of them, like when Don Krieg held him in a net, and Luffy used Krieg's weapon to create a new move where he used the net to shape his new technique, then he spun him several dozen times and slammed him into a boat. He's shown a larger variety in techniques than Don Krieg, who's fighting style revolves around manipulating weapons. During his raid on Enies Lobby, he defeated thousands of heavily armed and trained Marine Soldiers. He worked very efficiently, defeated hundreds of soldiers every few seconds by using several different methods of fighting:
*He used their numbers against them and made opportunities for them to friendly fire.
*He used his surroundings to his advantage, shown when he destroyed a building and used its fragments as ammo to punch towards the marines.
*He used wide spread AOE attacks. He used his own attacks to harm several people at once, or he used other peoples' weapons to attack multiple victims.
Luffy is also an extremely quick learner. During the East Blue Saga, he adapted to Captain Kuro's unpredictable fighting style in only a few minutes. In Alabasta, while focusing on surviving a stab wound and trying to save Arabasta from Crocodile's sandstorm, he figures out Crocodile's weakness to liquids and used it to defeat him. In Skypiea, he analyzed Enel's Kennbunshoku Haki and found ways to deal with it: Clearing his mind completely so his movements couldn't be read and sending shots into a wall that rebounded randomly so that their movement couldn't be predicted via telepathy. In Enies Lobby, he analyzed the Soru ability after only seeing it once and mastered the ability, incorporating it into his fighting style and created Gear 2nd based on it without any prior practice.
Weaknesses: Standard Devil Fruit users weaknesses. He was initially inexperienced at using his Devil Fruit as a child. Gear 2nd puts an excessive strain on his body. Extremely susceptible to hypnosis. Gear 3rd's post-usage renders him smaller for the same time he used the ability. As having so many shadows puts strain on his body and mind, he can only maintain Nightmare Luffy's Form for 10 minutes
Notable Attacks/Techniques:
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Gomu Gomu no Mi (Rubber Rubber Fruit): A Paramecia type Devil Fruit, this fruit turns the user’s body into rubber. The fruit's major strength, as demonstrated by Luffy, is that the person's body can stretch like rubber even when the ability user himself is nullified. It also makes them almost entirely immune to blunt attacks, including hand-to-hand combat, bullets or even cannonballs (this mechanic is further explained here). Thanks to Luffy's own creativity both in and out of combat, this fruit has consistently proven itself to be among the most formidable, versatile, and unpredictable within the Paramecia class. The user's rubber-like body also allows the user to survive falls from heights and collisions that would kill a normal person. The user's ability to stretch and twist like rubber to extreme lengths not only makes him immune to injuries that originate from such, but it also allows him to even rebound, that can give him a great advantage in or out of battle. Stretching also allows the user to drastically increase the range of what would otherwise be considered a powerful close-range attack, turning it into a devastating mid-range or long-range attack. A stretched limb can also be used to store potential energy like a stretched spring, increasing the velocity by stretching his arm back resulting in increased power. Combined with Haki, his power is increased even more. Owing to rubber-like natural insulating properties, the user is also immune to electrical attacks and is also able to hit an electric Logia user without Haki. Additionally the user is immune to the electricity produced by Electro.
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There are normally two types of Haki regular people can tap into: the Kenbunshoku Haki which allows individuals to sense the presence of others, and Busōshoku Haki which allows individuals to create an invisible armor around them. There is however a third type of Haki, Haōshoku Haki, that only a few individuals can use. Luffy is one of these people.
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==Gallery==
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==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Pacifista (One Piece) Pacifista's Profile (Nightmare Luffy was used)
Daz Bonez (One Piece) Mr. 1's Profile (Alabasta Saga Keys were used)
Johnny Test (Johnny Test) Johnny's Profile (Johnny X and Alabasta Saga Luffy were used. Speed was equalized)
Losses:
Sayaka Miki (Puella Magi Verse) Sayaka's Profile (7-C forms were used and speed was equalized)
Roronoa Zoro (One Piece) Zoro’s Profile (East Blue Saga keys were used)
Guts (Berserk) Guts' Profile (East Blue Saga Luffy and Black Swordsman Guts were used. Berserker Armor was restricted. Speed was not equalized)
Asta (Black Clover) Asta's Profile (Water 7 Arc Luffy and Eye of the Midnight Sun Arc Asta were used. Win Condition was by death. Speed was equalized)
Sonic the Hedgehog (Promotional Comic Sonic Continuity) Sonic's Profile (Kid Luffy is used. Speed is equalized. Battle takes place at Mount Corvo)
Kakashi (Naruto (Verse)) Kakashi's Profile (Part I & 2 Kakashi and Water 7 Luffy were used. Speed was equalized)
Tigger (Kingdom Hearts) Tigger's Profile (Luffy's first key was used, Battle was decided on Tigger's KH2 minigame, Speed was equalized)
Inconclusive:
Gon Freecss (Hunter X Hunter) Gon's Profile (Post-Training Greed Island Arc to Start of Chimera Ant Arc Gon and East Blue Saga Luffy were used. Speed was not equalized)
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