Imagine no ACoA and no ACoC and he still whooped his ass in almost unconsciousness with just 3 hits.
> He didn't knock Lucci out (it parallels the G3 scene and there was a lot more fighting left after G3)
>Luffy shriveled up from G5 use soon afterwards, which shows you how taxing awakening is for him.
>We know for a fact Lucci recovered, he looks as good as new.
>Luffy didn't manage to save Sentomaru and Lucci gained control over the seraphim like he wanted.
>Lucci didn't even show his other high end attacks awakened so he probably hasn't gone all out either.
Idk how anyone is making this a great showing for Luffy. He looked ok at best, not awful but not good. Most expected much better than this. He just came off beating Kaidou, Lucci ended up looking much better than he should thanks to it.