Kaido was drunk when he got beaten by Snake Man and needed FS to handle its speed...
He needed his drunken style to "overpower" G2/G3.
He needed his berserker mode in drunken style to match Bound Man's Over Kong Gun.
...But now you claim he magically went sober when he fought the mode which is stronger than the previous ones? Bro, you're coping. Don't be like Fenaker.
I'm just saying Kaido was at his strongest when he fought G5. Without his drunken mode, he wouldn't even sniffle G5's powerlevel. Please get real.
Kaido was drunk when he got beaten by Snake Man and needed FS to handle its speed...
He only needed to because he got distracted and lost his focus while having a flashback... If he had stayed focused instead of thinking about Big Mom and the past, could the story have played out differently? We saw him react to and block an attack from Snakeman without using Future Sight or Drunken Mode.
He needed his drunken style to "overpower" G2/G3.
To play around with him and have fun, yes.
He needed his berserker mode in drunken style to match Bound Man's Over Kong Gun.
He would have won the fight regardless of whether he was drunk or not, or whether he attacked or not. Luffy only had one more attack left. It was just a matter of Kaidou enduring it, but he chose to kill Luffy rather than win by “running out the clock.”
And it’s debatable whether Kaidou actually needed to be drunk in the first place. After all, like I said, there is no visual indication after 1042 that Kaidou CONTINUED to be drunk. He could very well have used something like Death Destroyer Thunder Bagua without needing to be drunk. Death Destroyer Thunder Bagua is even more proof that he was still holding back, and he still had Flame Dragon Torch. So he had other ways of winning without needing to rely on his drunken modes.
I'm just saying Kaido was at his strongest when he fought G5. Without his drunken mode, he wouldn't even sniffle G5's powerlevel. Please get real.
I’m not the one being unrealistic here. Even if I assume Kaidou remained drunk after 1042, his performance against Luffy’s G2/G3, Snakeman, and Gear 4 is completely incomparable to his performance against Gear 5.
On one hand, it’s undeniable that the same Kaidou performed better against Gear 5, while G2 and G3 almost look better, or at least seem to give Kaidou more trouble. But that is simply because Kaidou’s MENTALITY changed. He stopped playing with his food, just like Big Mom said. The manga gives us a very explicit explanation for this.
That’s why he can play around with G2/G3 and later destroy Gear 5 without needing any change at all.
Unless you’re somehow arguing that G2 and G3 > Gear 5.
The most obvious answer here is that Drunk Kaidou can vary his power anywhere from G2 and G3, Snakeman and G4 level to actually surpassing Gear 5 in combat, without needing any kind of POWER-UP to do so. That’s a completely acceptable interpretation, isn’t it?