No he doesn't. When did Nika ever navigate on his own? When did Nika do his own swordsmanship? When did he start engineering things? These are all just excuses.
Everybody on this forum knows nobody cares about the story. The only reason people come here to chat is for agenda's and powerscaling as usual. I have rarely seen anyone here talk about the story. Only now suddenly it's important?
We're not that stupid. Admiral fans and Zoro fans have been eagerly waiting for Nika to fail. That's been the discussion for the past couple of weeks. Same goes for Zoro.
What the hell are you talking about nobody cares about the story? Dude it’s not agenda to say the story is vastly different than it used to be because oda has started to make Luffy a focal point for everything.
Look back at east blue where every fight Luffy got assistance from the straw hats to win.
Look back at the story where the straw hats would always be the one to pick up any of Luffys slack. In Alabasta, Luffy was gone for dozens of chapters and the straw hats continued to function on their own. In ennies lobby against Lucci, Usopp was the reason Luffy was able to stand up and actually win. In Thriller Bark, after Luffy got duped by Moriah the straw hats held the fort until he could return.
Back then the straw hats had secondary focus and helped Luffy. Now? The straw hats have been demoted to basically what the Z fighters turned into in the androids saga.