Lucci is a beast.
Iron will. I've always said that this dude is Conqueror's material.
Very nice seeing that he cares for his ciper Pol friends as well. Knew it already from the cover stories, but nice seeing it in the manga too.
Between this and Lucci questioning the events digging deeper in beginning of the arc, there might be a chance Lucci eventually turns out. I just hope he won't become a straight up ally, don't want this GOAT to become another cheerleader.
Yea Lucci was obviously gonna require atleast 1 more attack.
-He was not unconscious even after Jimbei's attack forget Zoro's.
-He did not even fall, still on his feet.
-He has an awakened zoan. So he was bound to recover without another attack.
-Oda is not drawing Jimbei beating on an already fully defeated opponent, it's bad taste.
This is not some anti feat for Zoro, it just means Lucci is a beast. That's all.
All agenda and bias aside, Lucci is looking solid this arc.
He one shotted Sentomaru through his barrier defence (which has been hyped).
He had (advanced) armament clash with G5 and got up without much damage after tanking 3 named attacks.
His hybrid form kept up with boundman when attacking seraphim.
He fought (advanced) armament Zoro in CQC for a significant duration, standing after hit by (likely) advanced Conqueror's attack from Zoro. In context, this is very impressive cause this is a much stronger attack than the attack Kaido dodged and the Dragon twister that cut Kaido (assuming it's advanced Conqueror's).
Scaling him anywhere below standard first commander level is downplay.
Remember we had this convo about Lucci being relative to Sabo due to the movie? Yeah, I don't think it was an accident.
He should scale on/above Sabo, pre DF mastery.
I just ended up disappointed in Lucci, cause I underestimated the gap between G5 and other gears. Especially CQC in G5 is insane.
Oda did a terrible job showcasing the gap between pre and post G5 (aside from higher blunt resistance) in Wano, because his opponent was a character who nerfed himself to have fun until he pulled out FS against snakeman.