Powers & Abilities Power Creeping Scholars, Assemble!

[soupongo]

Roger and Garp struggled to injure Dr. Xebec, yet Base Luffy, Loki, and old Gaban can wound Imu, a god-tier character who's supposedly above Dr. Xebec. What happened to Imu's Haki barrier? It should be superior to the Haki barrier of Domi Reverse Xebec, the one Roger and Garp had to pour all of their Haki into just to break through. But apparently it isn't, since injured old men on the verge of death can still wound Imu.

Then there's Harald, the 'unstoppable warrior.' 'But but but but Harald doesn't know that Haki application that coats your body with a barrier, that's why young Shanks and prime Gaban ripped that bum's leg off.' Lol.

It's really not that crazy. The moment a DR gets overpowered, they return to normal and can no longer fight for Imu. . So it would be a reasonable usage of their Haki to defend themselves 24/7. That doesn't apply to Harald or Imu, so they don't need to defend themselves.

Imu having better Haki than DR Rocks is canon, Gaban says it himself.

 

[PuckTheGreat]

Kaido is dead food at this stage in the series lol let it go
Plus it’s kinda mad that a temple dwelling elder like yourself is still in denial about this shit after your idolo’s performance against Imu. Imu walked over a much stronger Zoro like he wasn’t there yet a much weaker version of Zoro had rumor man tweaking. Not to mention Imu’s saibaman just swatted away dragon damnation just from being on that Imu tax 💀. Levels to this shit bro.

 

[Blazing Lion]

 

[Psychiatrist]

The precedence was set as always. It was the agenda wars that had undermined pirate king and his subordinates worth that lead to thinking that mid and new generation had already powercrept the older ones.
The panels do not lie, the lossess of multiple high tiers and at least 3 top tiers does not fabricate, IMU's strength is oozing fromt he screen.
We have seen enough to know about the previously set balanced hierarchy:
Ancient legends (Joyboy, Davy, IMU) >>> Pirate King Generation > Mid generation (Mihawk, Shanks, Kaido) > Young generation.

Among these:
Luffy, Loki and Blackbeard has the power source capable of surpassing the ancient ones.
Zoro and Sanji will surpass the Pirate king generations.

Show our Pirate King a worth, since he is the perfect balance that separates mortals with the God ones, and then you will able to powerscale better.

 

[Franosuke]

Nik-san, you have Doodle Bob agreeing with you...

 

[L57]

kaido in big 2027

 

[nik87]

I was busy doing something then I saw your thread. I opened it on my computer to have a better read. And of course you are right on this one but I'm looking forward to reading the cope answers you gonna get.

I still stand by Loki > Gaban (even Luffy is above Gaban, hard to believe for the powercreeping scholars though) and I think you do too but for anyone without agenda and normal eyes, it's clear that Gaban did better than both Loki and Luffy.

Now Luffy and hybrid Loki will have their shine but there is no powercreep, Imu is strong but not a god tier. Neither is Loki nor will be EoS Luffy.

sounds like you were looking forward to my thread.
I agree with your Loki>Gaban and perhaps even Luffy>Gaban takes, even tho I have a hard time seeing Luffy surviving things Gaban has shown but narrative favors him for sure.
Yes, Loki and Luffy will do better, much better because this is merely a narrative setback aka 1010-1013 Luffy loss to Kaido and there will likely be no PU in between, even if the convenient burst shows up...
...but in turn, that will cause an even bigger power creep bubble to form in their heads so they will need to invent new tiers above god tiers soon enough. A gift that keeps on giving...

As you can see, they arent even trying to admit the error or answer the questions, coping and trolling when backend into a corner is their nindo.

And I gotta say, as someone who thinks that Luffybros are terrible at powerscaling, you surprised me positively.
Also, Imu is getting the narrative benefits that every major villain gets, near endless stamina, outlasting everyone and looking like he is so much stronger than everyone else but when look closer, he is barely above old injured men...
His CQC is barely above Gaban's dual wield.

Imu legit low diff kaido and im being generous

The gap between them is gigantic

Imu low diffing Kaido while struggling this much against old, deathbed Gaban? Get real, Ice-kun...
Kaido would eat any attack Imu has to offer without much trouble.

That's exactly where the insanity starts: first, they refuse to accept Kaido as the strongest of all time, and then they come up with things they can't even explain.

Roger and Garp struggled to injure Dr. Xebec, yet Base Luffy, Loki, and old Gaban can wound Imu, a god-tier character who's supposedly above Dr. Xebec. What happened to Imu's Haki barrier? It should be superior to the Haki barrier of Domi Reverse Xebec, the one Roger and Garp had to pour all of their Haki into just to break through. But apparently it isn't, since injured old men on the verge of death can still wound Imu.

Then there's Harald, the 'unstoppable warrior.' 'But but but but Harald doesn't know that Haki application that coats your body with a barrier, that's why young Shanks and prime Gaban ripped that bum's leg off.' Lol.

And their excuses just keep multiplying with every chapter. Their agenda has more holes than a sieve, and they're trying to block out the sun with it. LOL.

"We went from, 'My God, Roger and Garp had to channel all of their Haki together just to break through Xebec's Haki barrier. No one should be able to injure Imu since his Haki is supposedly the strongest in the entire verse.'

• Loki wounds Imu: 'My God, Loki is a demigod, way above Roger and Garp!'
• Base Luffy goes and wounds Imu: Silence. Let's just pretend none of that ever happened.
• Old, heavily nerfed Gaban on the verge of death does the exact same thing.

Yep they set their own obstacles in their way and then trip over them...
... powerscaling really seems too much for some people.

 

[Etemenanki]

Powercreep brought by this man was so big even the Swordbros are putting Prime Sanji way above Kaido

Scopper Waban the Agenda Eater, what have you done to this fandom

 

[Reborn]

It's too long. My limited brain cells aren't equipped to process high level of cope.

But based on what others said, if it's related to Kaido then anyone who thinks Kaido even stand a chance against IMU should retire from power scaling.

 

[Yo Tan Wa]

@nik87 chan will you bring EoS Zoro down to Cracker level when EoS Zoro faces Mihawk, who was held back by casual Vista in MF and the fight had to be postponed by Mihawk?

You're downscaling Imu because Gaban, left hand of PK was able to hold Imu for one chapter while latter went all out to save Luffy from nerfed Imu?​

 

[StocksInMihawk]

Kaido is fucking trash, he's a bum

Gaban would've turned him into fire wood

 

[Soyz]

Have any top tier ignore Gaban to focus on another character while he's about to throw his ultimate and they would be dead. Gaban managing to draw some blood do not change condom getting his gigantic G5 punch palm diffed and citizen of hell onigiri tail diffed without any omen. How are the oversized fish that got scarred and blitzed by mid high tier Zoro in CQC or Vista's rival even relevant

For comparison here is freshly awakenend G5 punch against crydo

 

[Crow]

What's the tl;dr version?

Keep calm and believe in Woro

 

[Sentinel]

Keep calm and believe in Woro

I believe in Woro but not in Nik's Woro.

 

[Redboy776]

Nothing ever changed lmao.

Imu was always the a tier above top tiers.

Yonkou > Admiral~Old legend is as consitent as it can get with the recent chapter.

They wanted Kaidou to be power crept lmao.

Only fandom with problems here will claim Kaidou won't be able to better than Gaban but Admirals would.


You will realise how 'powercreep' came into play.

This all started with Luffy vs Kizaru because luffy defeated Kaidou, So Kizaru > Luffy now.

Is Lucci > King now?


Gaban statements this chapters literally clowns luffy with calling him 'Yonkou'.
Bro literally said you're not meant for this lol.

Even Gaban said he defeated Kaidou, current performance shows how Gaban the reality lol.

Luffy was never Yonkou tier.

Imagine gaban telling that to kaido himself


Off course he would never.


Gaban by now had realized that luffy didnt truly defeat kaido in the literal sense, there was more to it.

 

[Rej]

tldr?

 

[kurwa]

Imu will be more or less fine next chapter.

idk,
this is the last time we see Imu, and he's far more worried about the attack

than gaban is worried about the attack that hit his arm

 

[Toryu]

The unwillingness to let go of of a middle story villain arc like Kaido is burning lots of agendas

Rate the rest whatever you want, but Kaido is not pushing Imu above a generous mid diff

 

[kekaro]

tldr?

3 Sword Swallowing Scholars coping out of their mind cause titleman are rauds

 

[Rej]

3 Sword Swallowing Scholars coping out of their mind cause titleman are rauds

isn't Zolo a titleman too? so by their logic he should be a fraud by default from start to finish...lol

"pirate hunter Zolo" lol -> becomes a pirate himself