Neither of us have seen the chapter, what's the point in arguing hypotheticals?
Because you started arguing that Imu will show the new form or escalate his power or other shit to save Luffy's face
Wtf??
If we don't use hypotheticals rn then Goffy just outright looks worse than Loki
It's not like I'm started doing it brother
It exists as much as the several rounds Luffy had with Kaido before being stomped. Two characters can appear comparable for several chapters only for the opponent to start actually putting in effort and low diff.
Loki looks fresh as can be going into the fight with Imu.
I mean you can make whatever excuses you want, but the end result is that Loki gets handled and knocked out seconds after Joyboy arrives, choose to think this is a coincidence if you want, but I won't.
The fuck is this bullshit arguments?
You can't read or what?
Okay i will said it again for you
Oda pointed out multiple times that Loki is seriously injured
First after getting tortured by Shamrock and Gunko and Gerd directly saying that he will need at least few mouth to fully recover
Second after he fought Imu for 4 chapters ALONE while condom who was already at 100hp getting buffed to 120% to fight Imu
This is Oda justifying Loki getting taken out by Imu(for now)
Your reasoning is not only your assumption and headcanon but just straight up false because the "excuses" you're talking about is what Oda wrote directly in the manga
You can't twist nerfed base/zoan Loki stalling Imu for multiple chapters and then 120% G5 Luffy getting low diffed into "Loki hypetool" agenda LMAO
It's fucking dishonest
The Scabbards fought Kaido for what, ten chapters or so?
Base Luffy was also clashing equally with Kaido, and in fact, overpowering him on multiple occasions, and yet Kaido then effortlessly dominated him afterwards.
Loki's endurance is good no doubt, though "tanking" is a bit much when he's clearly badly damaged from those couple attacks as Luffy commented.
We don't know that, Luffy can both get his ass kicked in one chapter and still look better, it all depends on what Imu uses and how he treats the fight, which none of us know the answer to yet.
Base Luffy only started equally clashing and stalling Kaido for more than 1 minute after the sky split and Kaido directly acknowledging Luffy as someone relative to him.
If anything Loki is closer to that for Imu than your hypothetical scarbads or 1010 Luffy.