It’s often brought up how luffy was lucky mihawk was going easy on him but if you actually think about it mihawk tried way harder to kill luffy than luffy tried to even fight him
Mihawk was one of the first guys to even attack luffy while claiming he won’t hold back
Luffy didn’t even say he couldn’t beat mihawk just that he doesn’t have the time to fight him because he was focused on things that actually matter like ace
All things considered he was doing pretty well both evading and even tanking attacks
Mihawk refusing to let him go until some strong enough to stop him let luffy free
Man had the nerve to go after a distracted luffy again after being upset at witnessing his conquerors power
This time crocodile and daz stopping him and letting luffy free
What if oda wasn’t saving luffy from mihawk but mihawk from luffy?
If you look at cross guild and to the left of buggy they were all luffy victims due to becoming fodder and giving up their true ambitions
- Luffy beat buggy
- Luffy beat crocodile
- Luffy beat Moria
Only one he didn’t beat was mihawk and looking back he might’ve been fodder to his prime self too. Now being able to be his true 1yc self with crocodile being 2yc and Moria the 3yc
- Deskainu :
1/ He couldn't get past an already weakened Marco while being blood lusted :
2/ He used his signature attack, "Meigo," but failed to stop a 1HP severely injured, brain-dead, and tortured Kuma.
Afterward, 1 HP Kuma still had the strength to defeat New Pacifistas and Vice Admirals, land a punch on Saturn, and save Bonney from an attack using his back, this is how much Meigo affected him with literally nothing lmao :
3/ Sabo speed blitzed him and saved both Luffy and Ace while he was attacking Luffy :
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4/ He couldn't hit Buggy who was overweight :
5/ He got sonned when Shanks came to Marine Ford :
Dude literally went from this
To this
When Shanks came, so NO lol
No wonder dude had to use Squardo to hope for internal betrayal before attempting any confrontation with Whitebeard
No wonder he had an equal 10 days fight with Kuzan later on, ending up scarred all over the body and barely winning despite magma devil fruit when regular fire can cancel out Kuzan's fruit
6/ Deskainu was treated as nonexistent and his presence was completely disregarded when Shanks was near him casually picking up the Straw Hat while leaving himself open and exuding confidence.
- Pizzalu :
1/ He got humiliated in a clash against Marco :
2/ He needed Marco to be distracted and in 2 v 1 with the help of a Vice Admiral to weaken him so he could affect his HP after the 1st humiliation :
3/ He couldn't get past an old man who was rusty and hadn't wielded a sword for decades and what's funny is Pizzalu started panting mid-clash:
4/ Pizzalu couldn't get past Gear 5th nor speed blitzing it and neither giving moderate damage which Kaido did for fun :
5/ His only damage against Gear 5th was giving a paper cut damage while using an army of clowns that got negdiffed:
6/ Franky, Sanji, Bonney, and Sentomaru suffered nothing from his attacks :
- Midkiji :
1/ He couldn't handle a human form Jozu without a distraction :
2/ He disappeared after a single open-handed attack from old Garp, who had been fighting hundreds of fodder soldiers and Teach’s officers. He only reappeared when Garp decided to leave.
3/ He couldn’t handle an old Garp who had significantly lost his strength due to age, even with thousands of fodder soldiers and Teach’s officers helping him. This only conveyed a sense of desperation on Blackbeard’s side.
No one believed in his strength lmao.
4/ He was speed-blitzed by an already weakened old Garp, who, with a hakiless and nameless throw, treated him as an afterthought to save Coby—and succeeded :
5/ He acknowledged being a weak ass without the help he received in Hachinosu against Garp by stating that they barely won with a team effort :
6/ He got stopped by Ace's flame attack easily :
- Fraudtora :
1/ A YC-level Zoro managed to send a slash from his weakest sword, even under his own gravity, to overpower Fraudtora's Devil Fruit power. Fraudtora was left shivering, pushed back, and kneeling, with his soldiers screaming his name :
2/ He failed to beat a Dressrosa Gear 2sd,3rd Luffy while stating that he was using his utmost :
3/ He couldn't do shit to 2 swords Zoro :
- Fraud Bull :
1/ He got sonned from miles away by Shanks's CoC and chose to retreat while he was shivering and crying :
モモの助や侍達を追い詰めるもシャンクスの覇気により退散
"Although he cornered Momonosuke and his comrades, he retreated due to Shanks's Haki."
2/ He didn't want Kaido's smoke and only came after he got beaten :
3/ He struggled against a YC 7 Morley :
