Second strongest attack that he can use pretty casually right now. And this shows Law is smart as usual cause it's not really the case to waste time with Injection Shot on a 3,996,000,000 Emperor of the Sea.
Puncture Wille, Gamma Knife... the arsenal is still wide so no such thing as going all out atm.
Law using awakening right off the bat is an equivalent of Luffy using G5 or Zoro using KoH. Nothing about it casual by any metric. An average top-tier with a devil's fruit is capable of fighting BB without having to use awakening right off the bat. And most of them have weaker fruits than Law. So if Law is forced to do this from the beginning, then he isn't ready for an equal match, period. Law is one attack away from using his most powerful move. How is that a wide arsenal? SW's been already countered as a matter of fact.
Was Law impressive? Definitely. Is he putting up a fight? Absolutely. Is this an equal fight? Far from it. If Law needed the best of his moves when BB just started fighting, then it won't look good when BB pulls out his best moves.
Also, looks to me like Law downplayers are blowing things out of proportion, not the other way around. Every each one of them was excpecting a neg diff, low diff at most, and this chapter proved them utterly wrong.
Law showcase was Top Tier:
- KO one Titanic Captain and remove another one from the scene
- Land a heavy hit on another Top Tier
- Clash with said Top Tier
Does this look High Tier material to you?
Could Arbel, Marco, Kata or Simeone like that pull this shit?
I agree that expecting a low-difficulty fight after Wano was a bad idea. But this chapter hardly helps the people expecting an equal or almost equal fight b/w BB and Law. So they're both in not accurate in one way or another. You don't need to be a top-tier to take out the bums that are currently hanging out with BB. And Law did not take out any commander in this chapter, it took out stronger, and it's not a captain. Sachi's the one responsible for Don Q getting hit by his own apples.
Clashing with a top-tier doesn't make you a top-tier. Yamato was holding off Kaido for Luffy, remember? She was no top-tier. She was landing hits on Kaido too. It's way harder to hit Kaido than it is to hit Blackbeard floating in the air without anything to stand on. See, none of this shit is top-tier level. However, clashing with GGnM is a different beast. Law, of all people, giving out equal output to GGnM is without a doubt some top-tier shit but most top-tiers don't require their second most powerful move to do this. So there is that.
Also, saying Law isn't a top-tier isn't the same thing as saying Law is a high-tier. There are ample people who're hanging b/w high tiers and top tiers. Law is one of them. Whatever he did in this chapter is definitely impressive beyond high tiers—although I could make a compelling argument for King for this scenario if you want.