

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?


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How strong is Magellan?


Considering that his devil fruit is of Paramecia type, he cannot be on par
with admirals. Also it is unknown whether he can change his poison's
composition like Coco from Toriko. If he can change then he can be considered
somewhat dangerous. If he cannot change then he seems pretty useless as Iva-
san had antidote for his poison. He could guard the prison because the prison
had many other supporting features to trap the convicts. But that also failed.
So he cannot be on same league as Admirals but much lower than them.


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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.


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> Is he at par with the Admiral? Or maybe somewhere lower than that?

Possibly around the levels of Vice admirals but then again some of the Vice
admirals are extremely strong like
[Issho](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Issho); now an Admiral.

Again like @PeterRaeves mentioned, position alone doesn't determine the
strength. Its relative.


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There is no way to know as One Piece is relative, however there are a few
facts that help determine this better. Also here's a related post: [Haki
vs.Venom Venom Fruit](https://anime.stackexchange.com/questions/13315/haki-vs-
venom-venom-fruit/13350#13350)

No real way to train against being poisoned at Magellan's level of poisons,
while some people like Mr. 3 and Ivankov seem to have counter measures. Even
Gold Roger died from disease which indicates Haki/fortitude doesn't help
against physiological changes.

He jailed and kept in line the world's worst criminals:

  * Many of Blackbeard's crew including Shiryu, Logia users, and strong Haki users. 

  * Blackbeard (Yonkou) and crew were completely defeated by him. It is also worth noting that Shank's scar was given by Blackbeard before he even got the Yami Yami fruit. 1 Yonkou = Marines + Piratelords per Government's assessment. 

  * Positions are also based on intelligence, career drive and politics. 

  * He spent most of the day in the bathroom as he ends up poisoning his own food which his stomach can't handle. This can be argued as a negative for a position like admiral which is publicly visible. 

  * It was never established whether or not he can use Haki. A lot of fruit users, especially powerful ones, tend to rely more on their fruits like Ace and Kizaru. 


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