[One Piece] “If I Beat Luffy, No One Can Oppose Me” — Was Enel Actually Top-Tier?
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Enel (2018/06/16) — Was He Too Strong to Appear That Early?
Enel once claimed that if he defeated Luffy, no one in the world could stand against him. Was this just villain arrogance, or was there real power behind those words? Japanese fans revisited this line and started arguing about Enel’s true position in the power scale.
Enel’s Worldview and Skypiea Context
1: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Yeah, true.
Enel: “If I can just seal you away… everything goes back to how it was. This world will be mine again!!!” “There won’t be a single person left in this world who can stand against me!!!!!”
3: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) When Enel says “the world,” he means Skypiea.
9: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) >>3 Urouge is there though lol
5: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) He’d probably even lose to Crocodile since he’s a ground-type.
6: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Apparently Urouge ran away from Skypiea because Enel showed up.
11: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) >>6 Nah, Enel got scared of Urouge and escaped to the moon.
Raw Ability List and Combat Potential
8: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Moves at lightning speed Entire body is lightning, touch = instant damage Can restart his own heart Uses electric heat to melt and process metal Ultra high-performance, wide-range Observation Haki Pinpoint massive lightning strikes With thunderclouds, can wipe huge areas with lightning Raigo that can erase an entire island Max 200 million volts So strong Zoro couldn’t shake him off He’s seriously busted
12: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) If Enel randomly ran into Kaido, would he piss himself?
13: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) He showed up way too early.
14: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) That 200-million-volt Amaru, anyone other than Luffy couldn’t beat that. Even with Haki, you can’t touch him.
Enel: “Two Hundred Million Volts.”
15: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Haki basically exists because of guys like him.
Power Scaling, Haki, and Modern One Piece
18: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) He was worth 500 million without Haki. If he learned it, he’d at least be around Katakuri level.
19: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) No way Urouge beats Enel. Muscle buffs don’t matter against lightning.
21: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Against Emperors or commanders maybe not, but he could wipe out fodder underlings instantly from the sky.
22: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Being able to easily destroy pirate ships is huge.
25: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) But if you’ve got Haki, you can punch him, right? He can’t keep up with the current power inflation.
28: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) 25 You’d just electrocute yourself with 200 million volts.
31: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) He’d just bully people with precise long-range attacks.
32: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) How far can a Logia with no Haki even fight other Logias?
Matchups and Comparisons
33: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) >>32 Smoker with a seastone weapon would be stronger though.
38: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Lightning alone is Admiral–Emperor tier. Plus his base stats are cheating.
40: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) Haki covering all of Skypiea Hand-to-hand combat with Zoro Tanked hits from Luffy Adaptability and intelligence He himself is genuinely strong.
Enel: “On top of Mantra, I use this lightning body to read electromagnetic waves and listen in on conversations. If I hear some trivial exchange happening somewhere… I can pass judgment. Covering the distance of an entire country is no trouble at all.”
16: Anonymous Pirate (2018/06/16) It’s probably good he showed up early. If he appeared now, nobody could beat him.
👉 Why Enel Is Still Considered “Broken” in Japan
Japanese fans don’t just look at Enel’s loss. They look at how he lost — a pure matchup disaster against rubber.
When you strip that away, Enel had speed, range, destructive power, self-sustain, and early Observation Haki on a level that still looks absurd today. The idea that “you’d just electrocute yourself trying to punch him” comes up again and again, showing how fans think in terms of practical combat, not just power charts.
👉 Why Enel Had to Appear Early in the Story
There’s a strong consensus here: timing saved the story.
If Enel debuted after Haki was fully established, he would either need heavy nerfs or constant plot excuses to lose. By appearing early, Enel became a legendary “what if” character — someone whose ceiling fans can debate forever.
That unresolved potential is exactly why he’s still talked about.
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