Monkey D. Luffy (Post-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 turned his body into rubber and gives him stretching powers; he's developed great mastery and creativity with his powers, creating 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. During the time-skip, he has a new technique: Gear 4th, which makes him much stronger and faster than even the other two Gears, but with a considerable cost to it. With the support from Silvers Rayleigh and the desire to reunite with his crew after the Sabaody Island Incident and the Marineford War, he endured vigorous training on the island of Ruskaina where he learned the 3 forms of Haki, and out of the three, he specialized in “Haoshoku Haki”.
Luffy is quite notorious for battling powerful individuals and organizations wherever he goes, and regularly poses a threat to the balance of the world by challenging the Seven Warlords of the Sea, the World Government, and now the Emperors, and so far has managed to either win completely or escape by a hair's breadth. Through word of his various exploits and victories spreading around, he's already become one of the most infamous and feared pirate captains in the world after the timeskip.
Luffy has his own signature laughter style, which is "Shishishishishi~".
Following the events of the Whole Cake Island Arc, Luffy's successful ‘raid’ against the Emperor Big Mom, the complete destruction of her castle, and his defeat of her two top Commanders was made public knowledge by the journalist “Big News” Morgans. Furthermore, the formation of the Straw Hat Grand Fleet and the addition of a former Warlord to his main crew, Jinbe, are also revealed to the masses.
After the time-skip, and after the events of Dressrosa, his bounty was 500,000,000 Berries.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: , higher with Gear 2nd, with Gear 3, far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman, with Strongest Attacks | , higher with Gear 2nd, with Gear 3, far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman, with Strongest Attacks 
Key: Beginning of Timeskip | Whole Cake Island Arc
Name: Monkey D. Luffy, Straw Hat Luffy
Origin: One Piece
Gender: Male
Age: 19
Classification: Human, Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, Supernova, Paramecia Devil Fruit User
Powers and Abilities:
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*Resistance to Electricity Manipulation and Blunt Force Trauma (Due to his body being rubber, he is highly resistant to lightning. He is also highly resistant to blunt attacks), Sleep Manipulation (Resisted Monet's ability to put him to sleep), Temperature Manipulation (Shown to be unfazed by cold temperatures, even if the temperature is below 50), Corrosion Inducement and Poison Manipulation (Can keep fighting even after being hit by Crocodile poison which also has shown to be able to corrode rocks. After surviving being poisoned by Magellan, Luffy developed an even greater immunity to poisons, causing him to be unaffected when Caesar Clown and Hyouzou, a blue ringed octopus fishman, targeted him with their poison. However, he did later fall victim to poison after consuming the skin of the Armored Stonefish; though the poison is stated to kill a giant on contact normally, Luffy's poison resistance merely put him in a coma despite taking several big bites), Madness Manipulation, Mind Manipulation and Soul Manipulation with Willpower (Through sheer willpower, he can resist losing his mind when absorbing shadows through the Kage Kage no Mi. Shadows belonging to strong willed people are difficult to control, allowing them to rebel against Moria's pact which usually immediately submits a shadow to his supremacy and orders. Spiritual energy is contained within one's soul/life; this energy is represented by the fighting power or the Haki itself. Those with strong souls, which are homologous to shadows, resist the effects of Brook's soul manipulation), Sleep Manipulation (Didn't fall asleep from Monet's sleeping technique), Heat Manipulation (Withstood and parry away Enel's high voltage spear, which could turn wood to ashes upon contact. By the time of the Paramount War Saga, he can withstand the boiling temperatures of Levels 3 and 4 in Impel Down as well stand near Akainu when he's attacking, where the heat coming off his body has been shown to vaporize enemy weapons around him. Can withstand the heat of the Burning Lands in Punk Hazard, where the heat is hot enough to melt and deform concrete buildings and bones), Fire Manipulation (Could withstand igniting his hands on fire with his Red-attacks, which is hot enough to burn even underwater), Limited Power Nullification and Stamina Absorption (Has been shown to been capable of moving regardless of being affected by varying densities of Seastone, while low densities have been shown to completely incapacitate and drastically weaken others and stopping them from using their abilities)
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|-|Beginning of Timeskip=Attack Potency: Island level (Fought and overpowered an Overdosed Hody. Can casually fight and damage Caesar Clown, who withstood the energy behind Nami's lightning shared with Baby 5 and Buffalo, making him at least 1/3rd as powerful as her lightning), higher with Gear 2nd (Far stronger than his Base State. One-shot a Pacifista), up to Large Island level with Gear 3rd (His Gear 3rd can vary in strength with the amount of air Luffy puts in his limbs. One-shot Monster Hody, who is 4x stronger than in his Overdosed state. Stronger than his Jet Gatling, which could destroy a Black Knight from Doflamingo. Much stronger than his Gear 2nd. One-shot Surume, and inflicted more damage to him than both Diable Jambe Sanji and 3 of Franky's Missiles, with 1 of Franky's Missiles being capable of severely harming Senor Pink), far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman (4x stronger than his Hawk Bazooka, which is twice as strong as a regular Gear 2nd punch. Doflamingo, ), Country level with Strongest Attacks (One-shotted Doflamingo using a . Stronger than his Leo Bazooka, which is twice as powerful as his basic Gear 4th: Boundman attacks, which in turn are than Gear 3rd. Superior to Beginning of Timeskip Roronoa Zoro)
Speed: Relativistic (Much faster than his younger self, who dodged a laser. While tired, he kept pace with Cavendish), at least Relativistic+ with Gear 2nd or Soru (Blitzed a Pacifista. Using Soru, he blitzed a Smoker in Tashigi's body, who can keep up against Base Luffy), far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman (Blitzed Doflamingo from hundreds of meters away)
Lifting Strength: At least Class T (Considerably stronger than his younger self, who could pull a massive golden ball with this much force), Class P with Gear 4th: Boundman (Broke Doflamingo's threads with brute strength, which are capable of holding back the force of a meteor brought down by Fujitora. Superior to Zoro)
Striking Strength: Island level, higher with Gear 2nd, up to Large Island level with Gear 3rd, far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman, Country level with Strongest Attacks
Durability: Island level (Took attacks from Jinbe), Island level+ with Busōshoku Haki (While weakened, he could block multiple stabs from Doflamingo aimed at his chest. Blocked many hits from Doflamingo's strings using his Octopus Gatling), Large Island level with Gear 4th: Boundman (Comparable to his Attack Potency. Withstood the impact of Doflamingo's "God-Thread")
|-|Whole Cake Island Arc=Attack Potency: Island level (Can clash, harm, and fight with a regular 1 Armed Biscuit Soldier), higher with Gear 2nd (Superior to his Base State), up to Large Island level with Gear 3rd (Much stronger than his Gear 2nd. Slightly pushed back a 3 Armed Biscuit Soldier that overpowered a Hawk Gatling), far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman (Stronger than before. At least 4x stronger than his base. Able to fight and overpower Katakuri), Country level with Strongest Attacks (Stronger than his Leo Bazooka, which is twice as strong as his standard Gear 4th: Boundman attacks. His Cannonball in Gear 4th: Tankman Stuffed Version was able to one-shot both Cracker and his Biscuit Soldiers. Stronger than before)
Speed: Relativistic with at least Relativistic+ reactions (Faster than before. Can dodge attacks from Katakuri. Can react to the speed of his higher forms), at least Relativistic+ with Gear 2nd or Soru (Faster than before), far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman (Outsped Cracker's Biscuit Soldiers)
Lifting Strength: At least Class T (Stronger than his previous Base State), Class P with Gear 4th: Boundman (Stronger than before)
Striking Strength: Island level, higher with Gear 2nd, up to Large Island with Gear 3rd, far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman, Country level with Strongest Attacks
Durability: Island level (Took hits from a 1 Armed Biscuit Soldier), Large Island level with Busōshoku Haki (Took many attacks from Cracker's 3 Armed Biscuit Soldiers), far higher with Gear 4th: Boundman (As durable as the power of his strikes), even higher with Gear 4th: Tankman Stuffed Version (Far more durable than Gear 4th: Boundman)
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Stamina: Superhuman (Has an immensely 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. During his fight with Charlotte Katakuri, Luffy had only slept for a few hours for the last days, and was vomiting blood, barely conscious, and taking a beating, yet could continue fighting quite effectively, which surprised his opponent. He is capable of fighting for over 13 hours despite having suffering severe injuries all over his body and shrugging off a fatal injury that tore off one side of his torso. Able to persevere with highly lethal poison coursing through his veins and with grave wounds. His endurance can be nearly completely restored instantly if he eats meat)
Range: Tens of Kilometers (Luffy should be able to reach much further distances than his younger self. The range of his Haōshoku and Kenbunshoku Haki is much greater than ever before)
Standard Equipment: His Straw Hat.
Intelligence:
Above Average in general. Genius in combat. He has displayed a myriad of different qualities of intelligence ranging from unique creativity to quickly comprehending difficult situations and events. 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. After the timeskip, he trained with the legendary Silvers Rayleigh and learned Haki, but he also learned how to use his abilities more efficiently.
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. During the wedding in Whole Cake Island, he planned putting a mirror inside a cake, and thought of the plan to superimpose his image on a bunch of animals to use as a diversion to confuse Big Mom and her children. 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. He's learned to mix that fighting style with Haki to bring out the best of his abilities. 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. Later in Dressrosa, he created Gear 4th, a transformation activated by blowing air into Luffy's muscles and covering them with Haki. Over the timeskip, Luffy developed a technique known as "Red Hawk", which is a tribute to his late brother who manipulated fire, where he could move his arm fast enough even while underwater for friction to light his arm on fire and burn victims from the inside. 
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 than him (Kuro) and can predict his movements (Enel), with unorthodox skills that take years to master (CP9 like Rob Lucci), and can see the future (Charlotte Katakuri). 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.
When Luffy was on Rusukaina, Rayleigh taught him how to use his abilities better. Luffy lost the weakness to Gear 2nd and 3rd and could now use them in short, quick bursts. He taught him how to efficiently reflect attacks back at the opponent with double the force instead of letting them rebound in random directions.
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 with 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. In Whole Cake Island, he merged using Future Sight in his own fighting style without any prior use of the ability. In Wano, while training to learn Advanced Armament Haki, he accidentally learned an even more advanced version which could destroy targets from the inside, and in a few days he mastered the ability.
Weaknesses: Standard Devil Fruit users weaknesses. Excessive usage of Gear 4th renders Luffy unable to use Haki for 10 minutes. Gear 4th greatly increases Luffy's metabolism, making his body burn calories much faster and greatly lowers how long he can remain in combat. Gear 4th: Tankman can only be utilized when Luffy has consumed a sufficient amount of calories. 
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. Owing to rubber-like natural insulating properties, the user is also immune to electrical attacks and is even able to hit an electric Logia user without the use of Haki.
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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==
Monkey D Luffy Render.png|Luffy Post-Timeskip
15th Opening Luffy.png|Luffy in 15th Opening
Film Z 2nd Outfit Luffy.png|Luffy in Film Z
Luffy Film Gold Kintaro Outfit.png|Luffy in Film Gold
Young Luffy.png|Kid Luffy
Luffy fire manipulation.jpg|Luffy Red Hawk
==Notable Matchups==
Victories:
Usopp (One Piece) Usopp's Profile (Beginning of Timeskip Luffy and Onigashima Raid Usopp were used)
Losses:
Donquixote Doflamingo (One Piece) Doflamingo's Profile (Beginning of Timeskip Luffy was used)
Inconclusive:
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