so as we know, Luffy's gears seem to emulate the rokushiki.
G2 allows Luffy to emulate soru by giving him access to enhanced speeds
G4 allows luffy to emulate geppo by giving him access to flight via skywalking
G3 at first glance doesn't seem to emulate any rokushiki but on closer inspection, one can see that it actually emulates tekkai as it allows luffy to harden his body. This is especially visible when luffy uses gomu gomu no gigant balloon, which makes his entire body hard.
There are, however, still a few other rokushiki that Luffy is yet to obtain, one of which is shigan. While this might seem like one of the weakest rokushiki, I think it might actually be the key to luffy defeating kaido.
To understand this, we need to take a closer look at some of the flaws of Luffy's current strongest form, boundman. While we know that boundman is extremely overpowered, it has one glaring weakness in that it utilizes too much haki. There are 2 extremely negative effects of this weakness.
In Luffy's CoA training, one thing was stressed. That Luffy is relying too much on power. Hyougoro stated that ACoA wasn't about exerting physical force but rather exerting haki. While this might have been told to luffy solely for training purposes, I think it also hints at Luffy changing up the way he fights. I don't think Oda is going to have Luffy become stronger by having him use stronger and stronger punches. Oda even stated in an interview that that isn't going to be how Luffy beats kaido. Luffy using king king king king king king king king kong gun isn't going to be interesting.
Instead of luffy using more power, he will beat kaido by using less power more efficiently. in comes shigan. I believe that Luffy will use a new form based off the tiger he fought during his training. This form will be called "gear 4th tigerman"
whereas the lion, gorilla, and alligator are all huge animals, the tiger is relatively small. This reflects tigerman as this form will not make luffy huge nor will it necessarily be as physically strong as boundman.
In tigerman, Luffy will simply use gear 4th to enhance his hands, making them slightly larger.
this was foreshadowed twice. First by Afro luffy and then again in impel down with Luffy's candle armor.
in tigerman, Luffy will focus all of his haki onto the tips of his fingers, creating what appears to be claws out of haki aura. Then Luffy will simply compress his fingers and fire them out at blinding speeds.
This fixes the biggest weaknesses of boundman.
But what about the mobility and defense that boundman offers? For mobility Luffy would use tigerman essentially like spiderman, shooting out his fingers, wrapping them around objects, and then swinging from them.
For defense, Luffy doesn't need the robust body that boundman offered anymore. With Future sight, he can dodge many attack that come his way, but for those he can't, he can simply use tigerman+ACoA to block or deflect.
anyways this is just my idea for what the new gear 4th form will be. Please feel free to leave your own thoughts and comments.
G2 allows Luffy to emulate soru by giving him access to enhanced speeds
G4 allows luffy to emulate geppo by giving him access to flight via skywalking
G3 at first glance doesn't seem to emulate any rokushiki but on closer inspection, one can see that it actually emulates tekkai as it allows luffy to harden his body. This is especially visible when luffy uses gomu gomu no gigant balloon, which makes his entire body hard.
There are, however, still a few other rokushiki that Luffy is yet to obtain, one of which is shigan. While this might seem like one of the weakest rokushiki, I think it might actually be the key to luffy defeating kaido.
To understand this, we need to take a closer look at some of the flaws of Luffy's current strongest form, boundman. While we know that boundman is extremely overpowered, it has one glaring weakness in that it utilizes too much haki. There are 2 extremely negative effects of this weakness.
- it gives boundman a timelimit
- it lessens the effect of Luffy's advanced CoA, which is used by luffy concentrating all the CoA of his body into one point.
In Luffy's CoA training, one thing was stressed. That Luffy is relying too much on power. Hyougoro stated that ACoA wasn't about exerting physical force but rather exerting haki. While this might have been told to luffy solely for training purposes, I think it also hints at Luffy changing up the way he fights. I don't think Oda is going to have Luffy become stronger by having him use stronger and stronger punches. Oda even stated in an interview that that isn't going to be how Luffy beats kaido. Luffy using king king king king king king king king kong gun isn't going to be interesting.
Instead of luffy using more power, he will beat kaido by using less power more efficiently. in comes shigan. I believe that Luffy will use a new form based off the tiger he fought during his training. This form will be called "gear 4th tigerman"
whereas the lion, gorilla, and alligator are all huge animals, the tiger is relatively small. This reflects tigerman as this form will not make luffy huge nor will it necessarily be as physically strong as boundman.
In tigerman, Luffy will simply use gear 4th to enhance his hands, making them slightly larger.
this was foreshadowed twice. First by Afro luffy and then again in impel down with Luffy's candle armor.
in tigerman, Luffy will focus all of his haki onto the tips of his fingers, creating what appears to be claws out of haki aura. Then Luffy will simply compress his fingers and fire them out at blinding speeds.
This fixes the biggest weaknesses of boundman.
- by only using G4th to enhance his hands, Luffy doesn't exert nearly the same amount of haki that he did in boundman. While boundman had a timelimit which was only 20-30 minutes, this form would most likely have zero timelimit and would last for as long as luffy's stamina allows.
- since Luffy only needs to use haki on his hands to access this form, he can concentrate all the haki he would otherwise be using to simply maintain G4th into his attack power.
But what about the mobility and defense that boundman offers? For mobility Luffy would use tigerman essentially like spiderman, shooting out his fingers, wrapping them around objects, and then swinging from them.
For defense, Luffy doesn't need the robust body that boundman offered anymore. With Future sight, he can dodge many attack that come his way, but for those he can't, he can simply use tigerman+ACoA to block or deflect.
anyways this is just my idea for what the new gear 4th form will be. Please feel free to leave your own thoughts and comments.
