How strong is Magellan?


He was trusted to guard the World Government's maximum-security prison from
the most dangerous criminals and pirates from all over the world, he must be
extremely strong. The main reason for the mass breakout success was because he
was tricked but not defeated. Is he at par with the Admiral? Or maybe
somewhere lower than that?




You cannot go by status alone to indicate someone's actual power.

> After the great breakout out of Impel Down, he was demoted to Vice-Warden.
> Probably because of his pride. So based on status alone you would think
> Hannyabal to be stronger than Magellan, which we know he is not.  
>  [![Vice-Warden
> !](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1QGyym.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/1QGyy.png)  
>  Well he wasn't before the timeskip. We haven't seen either of them after
> that, so it's hard to say where they stand now.

In the One Piece power system, it is actually hard to say who is stronger in
general, since it depends on lots of factors, like who you are up against. For
example, Crocodile was much stronger than Luffy, but Luffy still beat him by
using the water trick. In my opinion I think he wouldn't be far off the
admiral's level, since he beat Blackbeard's crew with just one hydro attack.
Actually Magellan's power and ability makes him the perfect guy for the job
and wouldn't be a good admiral. He would have a hard time arresting someone
without mortally poisoning him.

