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According to [the One Piece wikia's Enel
page](http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Enel), Enel's power won't work against
Luffy because he is a rubber-man. But at some point, I'm confused from this
fact since lighting that strikes at 1 Million Volts would burn anything, even
rubber. Also, he melted gold and placed on Luffy's hand.

So my question is, is there any logical reason why is it that Luffy doesn't
feel any hurt when Enel strikes him?? I will not include what episodes this
happen.


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Is it logical that Enel's power is ineffective against Luffy?


No, it isn't logical, but it was deliberate. TVTropes has a trope which
perfectly summarizes this kind of phenomenon: "Acceptable Breaks from
Reality".

> A Willing Suspension of Disbelief is a must for almost any work of fiction.
> There are certain elements of story or gameplay where realism would simply
> make a work tedious, difficult, or confusing for the audience. Thus there
> are ways in which works will be blatantly, unabashedly unrealistic, and
> nobody really minds.

The manga deliberately takes liberties with certain inconvenient real-life
physics rules for the sake of drama or balance; Most Logia Devil Fruits would
have been way overpowered and/or impractical if the manga followed the laws of
physics faithfully. Akainu's magma powers, for instance, would have made him
unapproachable because his magma would have vaporized everything without even
needing to make contact. For the same kind of reason, Luffy is completely
immune to electricity; Enel would have won way too easily otherwise.


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Logically Speaking,

Luffy would be the person most vulnerable to lightning attacks, as rubber,
being a resistor, cannot channel a high concentration of electricity away like
metals can. Fortunately for Luffy, this means that a lightning strike would
rarely ever hit him, and if he were struck, it's unlikely it could kill him,
as the electricity would not have a chance to pass through his internal
organs, but would cause severe damage to the location of the strike. High
voltages and lightning will usually just melt rubber.

Funnily enough, the character most logically capable of facing Enel would be
Gan Fall, as though lightning would be more likely to hit him, any strike
would be channeled by his metal suit of armor around his body, into the
ground, never passing through any internal organs, preventing damage. See:
Faraday Cages; <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faraday_cage>

If the world of One Piece were governed by Earthly physics, Enel would be
easily beatable by a knight in (shining) armor. But for us to suspend
disbelief by believing in all the crazy stuff that happens in One Piece-Land,
I assume we must also accept this.


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To be honest, Enel was ridiculously strong anyway even with his handicap
against Luffy. Although since he has complete control of lightning and
electricity, he would probably be able to melt Luffy into a puddle of goo
within seconds, realistically speaking.

However, the idea that a knight in shining armor could beat Enel sounds
realistically feasible until you take into account what Enel can do. Remember
how he could instantly melt down the gold and manipulate it through
electromagnetism? Well, what they don’t say is that he could technically do
that with any metal as long as it has a magnetic field. Enel would be able to
literally crush Gan Fall in his own armor. In fact, approaching Enel with any
metal is suicidal since he’s essentially an indestructible Magneto.

If he comes back, he’ll be a killer in the New World because with his haki
he’d be able to move his body parts out of the way of haki users with swords.
With a little improvement, nothing could touch him.


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I know this is old, but.... let's use anime logic and assume that rubber has
truly infinite resistance. If high voltage source is applied on Luffy, there
still wouldn't be any current flowing through Luffy, rendering him completely
safe, right?

As for Pokemon, I really don't agree with their setting. it should be the
other way around. Ground should be extra weak against electricity. Since they
are directly grounded, when connected to a voltage source, massive current
flows through them, causing them extra harm. So ground types should've been
set to be extra weak against electricity.

In contrast, flying type is hardly connected to anything else in mid air, so
electricity without high enough voltage shouldn't even affect them, so flying
type should've been set to resist electricity more than normal....

What do you guys think?


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