He was kinda smiling here
Like "pfft"
I disagree but I agree with everything else.
All Lucci downplayers are exhibiting massive projection and cope.
They've been moving the goalposts constantly since he landed on Egghead.
As I've said elsewhere:
"I won't stand for this revisionism after a year plus of dealing with people sick enough to believe Lucci would or should be taken down by Robin of all people or the lesser SH's.
No one outside of meme accounts on Twitter were seriously claiming Lucci could or should take Lucci.
What actually happened is this delusional fandom spent mid-Wano until now praying for Lucci to get demolished/be uncharacteristically weak and incompetent so they could coom to the SH's being better in every way than every person in the rest of the OP-verse.
They unironically thought Lucci was meant to be seen as on level with the buffoon known as Who's Who which takes absolutely garbage media literacy to have ever thought.
First it was Lucci used his strongest move first which was obviously not the case.
Then it was he'll get one-shotted which didn't happen and then y'all coped by saying his portrayal was just in service of a call back when a call back occurring doesn't change that what's happening on page still happened.
Literally every character on page respects and takes him seriously as a threat but for some reason you all can't see it.
Then he takes out Sentomaru and manages surviving the single most unorthodox combatant in the series in Gear 5th and gets mocked for that and strategically taking total control of the lower area.
The Lucci naysayers acting like they were validated is the purest form of cope and projection I've ever seen in this fandom."