So since we know that Loki solo’d all of elbaph and won it gives me the impression that this’ll mainly be a straw hat versus Loki & co thing with some lore in between
We can basically erase the idea of any giant being stronger or just as strong as Loki to aid into in battle since he washed all of them
My prediction:
Loki and/or Loki & co wipes out the strawhats. Im going with the popular 9 realm theory where each strawhat gets separated into these realms for the final training arc
We’re going into end game and outside Luffy/Zoro/Sanji/Jinebi, a lot of the straw hats still need a boost and can’t really match up well with any of the end game guys so this would be a perfect moment
Luffy trains with whoever was waiting on him at Elbaph I assume and the rest go into these realms for training arcs of their own
Zoro still needs a big jump to match up against guys like Mihawk and Ethan, same with Sanji and whichever gorosei he goes up against (most of us assume it’ll be Mars), etc.
We also need the confidence that luffy could solo a god tier character on his own with no interference. We know kaidou was a group effort, Gorosei he was clearly outmatched, this is the real test for him here