Ichigo did all that too though lmfao. He mastered bankai, beat two captains, saved Rukia, all his friends were in escaping.
Then the big bad shows up, undoes his work with Rukia, gets his goal and nearly kills Ichigo.
this is literally like Kuzan coming in after they save Robin in Enies Lobby to no diff Luffy with a finger and lobotomize Robin
But Ichigo wasn’t getting wanked by the entire soul society, and in his last fight Byakuya wasn’t saying “you will eventually beat Yamamoto.”
Ichigo was strong, but if you read any of his previous fights you’d know he struggle against the real big bad. Luffy is the same, difference is Oda tried really hard to paint Luffy as similar to a Yonko only to pull the rug on us
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Last arc we just had Luffy run away from a weaker yonko because he knew there was nothing he could do to her right now and then barely defeat her “lowly son.”
Luffy getting one shot by the worlds strongest creature was a decently common idea from what I remember.
Her “lowly son” was a genuine threat at the time, and even hyped up Luffy by stating Luffy will eventually beat his mom.
One shot being “common” is not what I remember. Losing? Yeah Luffy almost never beats the big bad right away, but one shot was unexpected. Specially with FS