Yeah, I think a lot of people try to logically analyze what’s going on in OP but it’s a classic shounen— asspulls are part of the genre.
Luffy (and most shounen protags) by all means should be dead many times over from literally every villain so far but he’s always going to get a hype powerup eventually and beat the big bad in a 1v1.
No they are not. And it is ridiculous to think and defend shit like that. Asspull is poor writing. There is absolute nothing to accept shit like that.
There is absolute no problem at all MC's being near dead and never die as long it makes sense. Many people complain about Luffy x Lucci. I think that was perfectly the line between plot armor and acceptable. Luffy x Lucci was changing sides of who was on top everytime and at final Luffy gave everything he had left on that gattling gun, won and couldn't move after that. Really showing that was the hardest fight of his life. Then we have Luffy x Katakuri, Luffy was always losing didn't surpassed Katakuri in literally anything and was still walking after the fight was over.
Another thing is MC evolution. Again, no problem with MC having a quick evolution as long this make sense. Example, Ichigo training his Bankai. Huge evolution. You can argue plot armor and this point but not in the fight itself against Byakuya. Ichigo literally won 2x before using that mask that people call plot armor. Was plot armor to Byakuya the same way Luffy x Doffy was plot armor for Doffy.
Problem is, in OP we had a method of how Luffy get stronger. He trains and comes stronger. With Katakuri he trained in the fight, it is ok since the fight was 12h long something like that. We have Luffy x Kaido same way basically, he lost, train at Udon and came back with a power up.
Thing is this time he had another power up but didn't trained at all. And is simple the biggest power up of manga, the most advanced techniques Kaido himself state that only handful of people can do it not a walking deadman(Luffy was knocked out few moments before that). This is poor writing, no excuses.
Just take a look at whole OP. Oda has literally no reason to make Luffy always look weak and then come with unlogical excuses to beat enemies. Luffy at beginning of raid was already knocked out by Apoo. Struggled against Ulti and Page One. Used G4 at sea battle and agaisnt a random Number. Used again at rooftop and almost died after that. Things literally don't make sense. G4 still has drawback, why he is using so much? Adv armament probably has somekind of drawback like he can't use more than once, that is the only explanation why he is using so much G4 I can see. Also he can't use adv armament with G4 otherwise wouldn't make sense Kaido dodging Luffy base form but not G4 form. Also why Kaido didn't dodge the 2 punches from 1010 if he dodged the one from 1009?
Luffy is at his best form ever, going toe to toe with Kaido. And Momonosuke says he is weaker and getting weaker by time? This is fucking garbage.