If Blackbeard removes your power do you regain the ability to swim?


When Blackbeard touches a devil fruit user, it is as if they don't have
powers. Unlike the sea, when he drains your power, even physical property
changes to your body are cancelled out.

The [Wikia on Yami Yami no Mi](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Yami_Yami_no_Mi)
talks about this:

> This was shown when Luffy's stretching powers were canceled on touch, unlike
> the effect of a body of water or seastone, both of which just inhibit a
> person from controlling their powers. It was shown earlier when Luffy was
> stuck underwater that his neck could still be stretched above the water's
> surface, and that Busoushoku Haki would simply nullify the defensive aspects
> of a Devil Fruit such as intangibility and the malleability of rubber.

The episode they are talking about is episode 447. In this episode, Blackbeard
uses vortex to pull in Luffy and smashes Luffy into the ground. Crocodile
notes that there was blood. This is strange since Luffy, being rubber, should
be immune to the physical damage caused by being slammed into the ground.

Another use of the Yami Yami no Mi allowed Blackbeard to permanently remove a
devil fruit user's power and give it to himself. When Whitebeard died his
power was still active in Blackbeard, thus causing the fruit to not regrow.
This is proof of the permanent transference of power.

In either of these cases, either the case where the devil fruit user has their
power drained temporarily by touch, or permanently like in the case of
whitebeard, would the drained user regain their ability to swim?




Doubtful. I think to completely rip off powers from another Devil Fruit user
like Whitebeard, he probably needs to be dead or will die in the process.
Think about it if that weren't the case, then Blackbeard would have extracted
the Mera Mera no Mi's power from Ace when he initially captured him. The thing
would've killed Ace and that wouldn't allow for a situation where Whitebeard
went to war with the World Government.

