What's hilarious is you assuming people don't know how G5 works. I don't think anyone's suggesting Lucci's getting clowned because Luffy's laughing at him. G5 is both Luffy's strongest form as well as his most vulnerable form by far, which is evident from Kaido landing more hits on G5 on average than any other form that came before. G5 is more prone to getting hit due to Nika's influence on Luffy's personality which makes him fight carelessly.
Yes. Literally someone above has just said this still. G5 is Luffy's most vulnerable and yet most "durable" form to blunt damage. Attacks like Ragnarok that knocked out Luffy before have had no effect whatsoever on Nika as well as countless other club attacks.
Lucci is no mountain/island buster like Zoro or Law—Speed and CQC are his bread and butter. Basically, Lucci in his fastest and most powerful form couldn't even touch Luffy in his most vulnerable form. And it's not just Luffy who's casually following Lucci. Even Sentomaru has no issues following Lucci's speed and is almost always prepared to respond. His only issue was his Haki wasn't good enough to block him. So to sit here and suggest Luffy's trying hard against him just because he's using G5 is ridiculous on many levels.
I never said that Luffy is trying against Lucci. I knew he's getting slapped in this chapter, and no, Sentomaru could see it coming but his reaction speed wasn't fast enough and the second time Luffy jumped in. The only fighter we know that could catch Nika was Kaido and keep in mind that current Luffy has full control over the abilities whereas against Kaido Luffy was using him as a training tool to find out what he can do.
Anyways, this in no way shows a comparison between Lucci and YC1 as they never fought against Gear 5 Luffy. I'm willing to say that, like Lucci, none of the YC1 are touching Luffy a single time. Marco and King are far too easy to dodge.
Luffy has FS so forget the speed part for a bit, Lucci's a glass canon for a zoan user of commander caliber. The dude almost got KO'ed from 3 low-tier attacks. Non-zoans like Doffy and Katakuri were withstanding multiple Boundman attacks while getting sent flying across the country. Are these attacks that Luffy used on Lucci even Dressrossa Kong Gun class? You seriously sitting here and trying to sell us the idea that this guy is in the YC1 class? lmao. Even Jack lasts longer and needs more attacks to go down against G5 than Lucci.
Completely disagree lol. Lucci is easily above Jack. If Lucci isn't touching Luffy, Jack isn't in no way touching Lucci lol, and yes, i do believe that the attacks used against Lucci are easily Dressrosa Kong Gun and WCI Snakeman class of attacks. The only reason you assume they're low tier is because they look ass visually.