If you think the scabbards performing a 0 damage attack on Kaido that he instantly regenerated from is more of a nerf than Luffy eating Kaido's most powerful hybrid attack unguarded then you have severe mental issues, log off, go see a doctor.
Kaidou and Katakuri's own words trump your nonsense.
If lifting the island was a nerf Kaidou could have dropped it any time he wanted, it was a nerf to Luffy though, who had to hold back his island destroying punch until Momo could move the island.
Because you need to be spoonfed:
- Luffy directly overpowered a stitched up (non nerfed) Doflamingo using their finishers.
- Time limit drama was PIS to show off the weakness of G4 and ramp up the tensions of the arc
- Luffy kidnapped Brulee, and Katakuri was pissed, this was lucky, but not any more unfair than being trapped in a mirror world to begin with.
- Luffy and Zoro were trying to save stamina to fight Kaidou, you admit Luffy was KO'd and pre nerfed going into the R5 fight.
- G4 time limit is in canon over 10 minutes, no matter how it is portrayed.
- Luffy fell he wasn't thrown, I already explained this. Either case should be a death sentence and would have been without Luffy's own power (VoAT)
- Yamato stalled Kaidou and got wrecked, and afterwards Yamato canonically said that Luffy was barely standing and so more nerfed than Kaidou going into that fight.
- Kaidou could have dropped it any time, never mentioned this as an issue, and mentioned other things as unfair issues in his favor.
- Enel reviving using his power was not unfair, Kaidou having an awakened zoan and the freakish regeneration rate that goes along iwth that was not unfair it is part of his powers. Zoro taking external bullshit mink medicine that wasn't part of his powers however...
Scabbards weren’t the only people in that gauntlet. And their attack drew more blood from Kaido than any Luffy attack ever. Luffy taking a normal Kaido attack unguarded is no different than Luffy jumping Kaido with 4 other people at the same time. Kaido couldn’t have just stopped lifting the island because he wanted to drop it on the Flower Capital, Luffy didn’t hold back shit.
1. Doffy stitching up his organs was a temporary band-aid, it didn’t fully heal him at all. He was much weaker after Law’s Gamma Knife than before. And even with that, Luffy still needed the townspeople to help him run away from Doffy like a little bitch.
2. Luffy being a pathetic weakling isn’t PIS just because it destroys your headcanon, it’s reality.
3. Luffy kidnapping Brulee doesn’t change that he needed outside help because he’s a loser. The Mirror World is a neutral setting, nothing unfair about it.
4. Luffy trying to save stamina doesn’t change the fact that Apoo knocked him out and could have killed him if not for Zoro.
5. And? He still ran out without doing shit and needed the rest of the SN to carry his ass.
6. Doesn’t change the fact that Kaido could have easily chopped his head off which he even regrets not doing. So again Luffy has PIS to thank.
7. Yamato said Kaido’s power was weakening, all she said about Luffy was him putting the everything on his back. I’m not interested in your nonsensical fan translations, Viz > you.
8. Kaido wanted to drop the island on the Flower Capital, so no he couldn’t have dropped the island at any time without failing to achieve what he wanted to do.
9. Those were well established and made sense as part of the character’s powers. Oda realized he made Luffy too weak and had to come up with a BS way to bring Luffy back to life after he died. Zoro taking mink medicine is irrelevant to the conversation because that was to recover from damage inflicted to him by a combined Yonko attack that would have vaporized Luffy who was too slow to react to it.
So again, will Luffy ever get a real 1v1 by EOS?