This is just Rooftop Kaido all over again, when will you guys learn that no arc villain goes all out in their first fights? They sandbag and show a fraction of their full power and then gradually escalate.
Imu showing more against 120% G5 Luffy than nerfed base/zoan Loki is not a flex at all if he
did in the first place. Also you will need to justify scaling his potential new attacks above the previous ones for it to be a legitimate argument here. It's not like new attacks are automatically above the other ones.
A serious Imu who probably still isn't even close to using his full power took care of Loki in moments, there's just no denying what chapter 1187 explicitly shows.
LMAO
You can't spam the same shit and pretend that everything previous to that one Imu attack did not exist.
Loki was already seriously injured prior to the start of the fight. He stalled Imu for 3-4 chapters and tanked multiple named attacks while Luffy was buffing himself.
And Luffy once again pointed out that Loki was seriously injured before Imu attacked.
For your bullshit logic to be true Loki was needed to be relatively okay at that moment and only then get his ass fucked by Imu but that's just not true.
How do you know Luffy performed worse? Have you seen the chapter? All we know is the end result, which is that Luffy apparently gets knocked out, just like Loki was.
Loki fought Imu for 4 chapters.
Clashed equally with him multiple times.
Tanked multiple named attacks.
And he did all that while being nerfed in base/zoan.
120% G5 Luffy getting his ass kicked in 1 chapter is indeed him performing far worse than Loki.