Monkey D. Luffy is the chief character in One Piece. He is the captain of the Straw Hat Pirates, and he is also one of the members of the Worst Generation. Luffy is considered to exist a knucklehead well-nigh of the time, but he is definitely capable of making sensible decisions.

Luffy has shown several times that he is capable of making a well-thought decision. Equally a graphic symbol, the merely downside to Luffy is that many times he is reckless and lets emotions influence his decisions. Decisions influenced by emotions are rarely good, merely non all of them are bad either.

10 SMART: Offering USOPP A CHANCE TO COME Dorsum

luffy vs usopp WATER 7

Water 7 arc was filled with drama. Things got out of hand when Usopp decided to leave the coiffure because Luffy made the decision that Going Merry was in no condition to continue sailing.

Usopp's decision to go out the crew was based on his emotions. Nonetheless, Luffy allowed Usopp to practice what he wanted. After the fight versus CP-9 ended, Usopp admitted that he had fabricated a mistake. He wanted to bring together the crew again, and Luffy was more than happy to forgive him.

9 Not SMART: ATTACKING KAIDO

Luffy is known for making decisions based on emotions. Many times, he lets his emotions get the ameliorate of him. We saw another glimpse of Luffy's anger at Wano.

When Luffy saw that his crew was attacked by Kaido, he lost it completely. He charged towards the Yonko and attacked him recklessly. Luffy might accept thought that he would have managed to injure Kaido at least a bit. However, information technology proved to be a fatal mistake as Luffy was beaten with only one hit and sent to Udon prison house.

8 SMART: SEEKING Help FROM IMPEL Downwardly INMATES

Luffy doesn't like people who oppress weak people. He usually starts to attack bad people without thinking too much about it, simply when was in Impel Down, he actually formed an alliance with other pirates including Buggy and Crocodile.

Luffy promised to assistance them if they helped him in render. The pirates acquired a huge ruckus in Impel Downwards and escaped from the prison.

vii Not SMART: PUNCHING A CELESTIAL DRAGON

Puffy punches a celestial dragon One Piece

When Luffy was present at the Auction firm along with other pirates, he saw a shocking scene unfold before his very optics. His friend, Hatchan, was shot past a Celestial Dragon. Afterward seeing his friend get shot, Luffy wasted no time and he marched towards the Angelic Dragon and punched him.

Luffy's attack put all other pirates at run a risk because Admiral Kizaru arrived at Sabaody Archipelago. Kizaru took on several Supernovas and beat all of them quite easily. Also, Luffy's crew was but saved because Rayleigh and Kuma saved them. Rayleigh kept Kizaru at bay while Kuma sent the Straw Hats away.

half dozen SMART: CREATING GEARS

luffy gear second

Luffy is a genius when it comes to fighting. It just took him one glimpse at Rokushiki to create Gear 2d. He has shown his ingeniousness several times already.

Some other example is when he created Snakeman specifically in order to fight confronting Silvers Rayleigh. He also managed to learn Ryou in a very short menstruum of time.

5 NOT SMART: INVADING IMPEL DOWN

When news of Ace being captured reached Luffy, it was obvious that he had to do something to rescue his brother. Luffy learned near the location where Ace was being held and straightaway he decided that he needed to costless his blood brother.

This was the obvious pick considering that Ace was his brother, simply Luffy failed to realize that he had to infiltrate Impel Down— an impenetrable fortress. Simply one person had successfully escaped from Impel Down and that person was Shiki. Luffy was near killed by Magellan and he just survived due to Ivankov'due south efforts.

iv SMART: GOING Later on SANJI

Sanji was forced to make a decision at Zou. He had to ally Charlotte Pudding for the sake of the well-being of his coiffure and Zeff. Sanji could non bring himself to risk the lives of the people whom he adored.

When Luffy came to know about the situation, he immediately set out to Whole Cake Island. He knew that Sanji's reply was non honest, he decided that he'd non rest until Sanji gave him an honest answer.

3 Not SMART: Non REALISING THAT HIS CREW MEMBERS WERE Still ALIVE

luffy ace one piece

Later on witnessing his brother'southward death before his own optics, Luffy had lost all hope and he didn't want to comport on. Luffy was going through a mental breakdown because he couldn't quite believe that Ace had died.

Amidst all this chaos, Luffy didn't realize that he still had his crew. It wasn't until Jinbe made him realize that Luffy still had his crew members waiting for him.

2 SMART: Not DESTROYING NOAH

Hody Jones

When Luffy and Hody Jones fought on Noah, Hody had the articulate advantage. Luffy was very restricted, simply he could very easily have destroyed Hody Jones had he used Gear Fourth.

Information technology would have been overkill and it would likewise have destroyed Noah. The send is of very significance to the people of Fish-Man Isle. So, Luffy not destroying the ship was a good decision.

1 Not SMART: FIGHTING AOKIJI

Aokiji was the first Admiral to be introduced in One Piece. Luffy had but faced weak Marines at that signal and he seriously underestimated the strength of an Admiral.

This was a grave fault as Luffy immediately frozen past Aokiji'due south devil fruit powers. If Aokiji wanted to impale him, it wouldn't have been a problem for him.

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