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
I didn't say "Imu will show a new form" you stupid fuck, I said the leakers are suggesting he used a new form. And I'm saying Imu started trying last chapter when Luffy arrived and he proceeded to handle Loki no problem, not suddenly this chapter.
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
Can you not write like a fucking brainlet, please? This shit is aids to read and respond to.
Loki looked clean as a whistle as he was squaring up to Imu, his injuries from Shamrock haven't been mentioned in ages, nobody comments on it in the fight either. It may be weakening him, but to the extent that you're suggesting? Not a chance.
Yeah he's badly damaged
after taking a couple of Imu's attacks, but I think that Stigma would put him on his ass anyway, as Imu is actually trying now and it's visibly his most lethal attack so far.
We don't know how Imu vs Luffy goes or what is used we only know the outcome if the leaks are to be believed. It is entirely possible for Luffy to look better and get shit on in one chapter, just like if a character was fighting Drunk Hybrid Kaido for one chapter versus someone fighting Rooftop sandbagging Kaido for four chapters.
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.
The time frame is irrelevant, base Luffy was using Kaido as a punching bag which is >>>>>>>>>>>> Loki and Imu seemingly being comparable. And yet Kaido then put some effort in and no diffed, why is the same impossible for Imu?