Powers & Abilities Why doesn’t Luffy use gear stacking instead of G4?

Stacking is ADDING two skills together. Harmonizing is MULTIPLYING.

(Gear 4) Multiplying > Adding
Gear 2 multiplies his base x 2 with additional force and speed from it + Gear 3 which makes his bones hard filled with air adds extra weight and AoE DC

Add those 2 together with Armament Haki and you get something stronger than Gear 4.

Gear 4 is only used for mobility.
 
Gear 2 multiplies his base x 2 with additional force and speed from it + Gear 3 which makes his bones hard filled with air adds extra weight and AoE DC

Add those 2 together with Armament Haki and you get something stronger than Gear 4.

Gear 4 is only used for mobility.
Not really. Gear 4th is faster and more powerful than gear 2nd and third individually, and I doubt that would be change if they were together.
 
What the title said. Why not just combine G2 and G3 instead of using G4, which has a lot more drawbacks?
Because it's very possible that combining G2 and G3 has MORE drawback than G4. We really don't actually know.

Luffy after using it (pre-skip) for few attacks against Moria. He stayed unconscious. And Zoro had to take all of his fatigue to make Luffy wake up again "LATER"
 
Because it's very possible that combining G2 and G3 has MORE drawback than G4. We really don't actually know.

Luffy after using it (pre-skip) for few attacks against Moria. He stayed unconscious. And Zoro had to take all of his fatigue to make Luffy wake up again "LATER"
Luffy had fatigue because of him putting 100 Shadows into his body where a human can only take 2.

Also, Luffy has mastered Gear 2 and Gear 3 post timeskip.

He can use Gear 2 in one part of his body, not all of it like Pre TS, making the strain less on his body.

Gear 3 also has more control and less air making the strain on his body less and gives him more control, unlike Pre TS.

In addition to that, his body can handle Gears better with the survival training(stamina) he did during TS.

There is no excuse that Luffy hasn't used Gear stacking aside from Oda nerfing Luffy.
 
Luffy had fatigue because of him putting 100 Shadows into his body where a human can only take 2.

Also, Luffy has mastered Gear 2 and Gear 3 post timeskip.

He can use Gear 2 in one part of his body, not all of it like Pre TS, making the strain less on his body.

Gear 3 also has more control and less air making the strain on his body less and gives him more control, unlike Pre TS.

In addition to that, his body can handle Gears better with the survival training(stamina) he did during TS.

There is no excuse that Luffy hasn't used Gear stacking aside from Oda nerfing Luffy.
Gear 4th is stronger than gear stacking. Its literally the most powerful thing Luffy can do. He isn't nerfing Luffy.

Also, I don't really see the difference between him using gear 2nd and 3rd at the same time in the anime...

Like, that's technically gear stacking, even if he isn't doing the specific moves he used during Thriller Bark...
 
Gear 4th is stronger than gear stacking. Its literally the most powerful thing Luffy can do. He isn't nerfing Luffy.

Also, I don't really see the difference between him using gear 2nd and 3rd at the same time in the anime...

Like, that's technically gear stacking, even if he isn't doing the specific moves he used during Thriller Bark...
The animes special effects don't count.
Luffy using Gear Stacking would have the Jet prefix. This is not in the manga.

Gear 2 and Gear 3 would provide a healthy medium between G4 and Base/ G2/ G3 Luffy.

Jet Elephant Gun
Jet Grizzy Magnum
Jet Giant Stomp
Jet Giant Whip

So on and so forth.....
 
Gear 4th is stronger than gear stacking. Its literally the most powerful thing Luffy can do. He isn't nerfing Luffy.

Also, I don't really see the difference between him using gear 2nd and 3rd at the same time in the anime...

Like, that's technically gear stacking, even if he isn't doing the specific moves he used during Thriller Bark...
Gear stacking would be more cost efficient since he wouldn’t drain his Haki so fast
 
The animes special effects don't count.
Luffy using Gear Stacking would have the Jet prefix. This is not in the manga.

Gear 2 and Gear 3 would provide a healthy medium between G4 and Base/ G2/ G3 Luffy.

Jet Elephant Gun
Jet Grizzy Magnum
Jet Giant Stomp
Jet Giant Whip

So on and so forth.....
I can get that. But I still don't believe it would be as efficient anyway(and I think its a pretty weak reason to discount the anime showing it as well).
 
It would be efficient since it does not use as much haki.

Isn't that just a tankman sort of form though? Like, sure, he could do it, but what would be the point? Luffy didn't have any other moves utilizing gear 2nd and 3rd together besides that tank shell move, which, lets be honest, doesn't seem half as efficient as boundman, which has genuine fighting capability. So it would basically just be tank man...
 
It would be efficient since it does not use as much haki.

It’s obvious that gear stacking would be the more efficient form. Oda wanted to go with G4 instead because it looks cooler, so he just nerfed Luffy’s intelligence again so that he wouldn’t think of gear stacking.
 
Gear 2 multiplies his base x 2 with additional force and speed from it + Gear 3 which makes his bones hard filled with air adds extra weight and AoE DC

Add those 2 together with Armament Haki and you get something stronger than Gear 4.

Gear 4 is only used for mobility.
Yes, you just described stacking, i.e. adding two skills on top of each other. Gear 4 not only gives you the strength of Haki, but it uses Haki in tandem with his DF, to improve his physical strength.

That's where the phrase greater than the SUM of its parts comes from. You are using one skill to make another skill better.





If Luffy's base strength is 10, and his Haki is 10, by stacking you get 10 + 10 = 20. But if Luffy harmonises them (multiplies), you get 10 x 10 = 100.
 
Yes, you just described stacking, i.e. adding two skills on top of each other. Gear 4 not only gives you the strength of Haki, but it uses Haki in tandem with his DF, to improve his physical strength.

That's where the phrase greater than the SUM of its parts comes from. You are using one skill to make another skill better.





If Luffy's base strength is 10, and his Haki is 10, by stacking you get 10 + 10 = 20. But if Luffy harmonises them (multiplies), you get 10 x 10 = 100.
Gear 4 is inefficient. There is a reason many fighters do not fuse their devil fruit with their haki as it is to inefficient. We are talking about efficiency here.
 
Gear 4 is inefficient. There is a reason many fighters do not fuse their devil fruit with their haki as it is to inefficient. We are talking about efficiency here.
Katakuri has no problem fusing his haki with his devil fruit. Its just the manner of how Luffy does it can be energy consuming. Even then, he can still fight for 30 minutes in gear 4th. Which isn't a terrible amount of time.
 
Gear 4 gives him flight ,high defence,adds both speed and attack power and he can control his limbs while streched out.
Gear 4 is inefficient. There is a reason many fighters do not fuse their devil fruit with their haki as it is to inefficient. We are talking about efficiency here.
the ploblem over using his haki that why dont see many charaters do full body CoA and not combining DF and CoA, charaters like doffy,katakuri,cracker use CoA with DF and theres no problems with them.
 
Gear 4 gives him flight ,high defence,adds both speed and attack power and he can control his limbs while streched out.

the ploblem over using his haki that why dont see many charaters do full body CoA and not combining DF and CoA, charaters like doffy,katakuri,cracker use CoA with DF and theres no problems with them.
What I mean is fusing Devil Fruit and Haki together. There is a reason Doflamingo was suprised Luffy fused his Devil Fruit with haki.

What Doflamingo did is what Luffy does when fighting in base with armament Haki. Using Armament Haki on top of your Devil Fruit.

Only Big Mom and Katakuri have done it. That is where the flaming Armament Haki pattern comes from.
 
Doflamingo was suprised Luffy fused his Devil Fruit with haki.
Doffy was surprised by luffy how luffy used his CoA with his devil fruit like able to fly,kong gun(compressing his arm), his arm not returning to normal after stretching , blocking his attack and not surprishis by his CoA and DF fusion.
 
g2 and g3 combined are still less than the power of a kong gun
I personally think of it as a fast g3
he still uses attacks like elephant gun, gatling but is faster at it. The problem?
a kong gun is vastly superior to an elephant gun.
solution. adv coa upgrades everyone of luffy's forms. so strong that in his base, if he mastered it, hyo said he could stop bigmom in her tracks.
 
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