Ah yes, "Luffy will be near dead regardless" like how many times have we seen that already? Luffy literally got defeated, got back up, got defeated and now got back up. Give him some fucking meat like Oda always does. This is Odas logic, not mine. If Oda is going to abandon his own logic it just goes to show how shitty of a writer he is and makes it abundantly obvious how unprepared he was for this arc as he is creating shit out his ass every chapter.