Cracker only stood a chance against Luffy because he was using stall tactics to wear Luffy out. He could not match Luffy straight up in power. That’s why he hid behind clones. The one time he got close after their initial bout, he got sent to Raftel. Jinbe would bury Cracker. In power, Jinbe is stronger straight up. Not to mention that Jinbe uses a form of fighting that is a massive advantage over Cracker’s fruit. It’s not a fight.
Wait are you fucking serious? Stall tactics? Cracker was fucking making ground on a g4 Luffy who was using Kong Organ with his biscuit soldiers, literally rapid fire kong guns.
Also Cracker was approaching cqc up close, using the biscuit soldiers as he would, since that's literally his combat style, it's not stall tactics, when you fight Cracker, you have to fight someone who is faster and has stronger buso than doflamingo, who can also mass produce g2/g3 luffy leveled biscuit soldiers who can resist g4 hits somewhat, and can be rebuilt endlessly.
Water doesn't destroy them either, they simply weakened the defense for that moment enough where luffy could bite into them and eat them so that cracker had to recreate them instead of repairing them, which would be much less costly stamina wise. G4 Luffy, Nami with his weakness, and an army of biscuits didn't hit Cracker for 16 hours, and the move he landed on Cracker was a trick move that had greater impact than a king kong gun.
Cracker could litearlly just stand back and let 3 biscuit soldiers kill jinbei, and cracker was having like 9 out at once while fighting himself too, and can replace them easily, especially if they're just broken.
Jinbei struggled with g2/g3 luffy, he literally gets fisted.
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If a flashback does begin. That can only mean one thing... Shanks is evil.
That is the only possible thing that can be revealed in an Ace flashback that is worthy of Chapter 1000.
The way Yamato is talking about Ace, it seems like he considers Ace to be his friend. Add on the whole Who’s Who might be Masked Deuce angle and it seems Kaido might have had some sort of a friendship with Ace and was most likely going to Marineford to save Ace. And if Shanks stopped him....
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But Kid sneaked too though ? And he was even less successful
Sword battles are always one hits, Zoro and Killer one hit each other and passed out, Zoro one hit Ryuuma, Zoro one hit Daz Bones, etc. It's just the state of a battle like that, if you land a non superficial attack with a sword, they go down, so sword fights are very much about avoiding getting hit and clinging swords.
Kid is a brawler like Luffy, which is about tanking a bunch of blunt damage and being about manly men.
Also one could argue that Zoro failed to hurt Apoo with the damage Kid already did to him, plus the artificial damage Drake would have done on him via his combos that probably blooded apoo up a tad, nothing too serious.
But yeah, Zoro always one hits everyone, it's literally the mechanic of swordsmanship for every character in the series of one piece.
