That's why I disagree with Luffy fans that try to scale him in G5 while forgetting the atrocious stamina issue. No point being stronger than your opponent for a few minutes if you can't take them down fast enough
It's Oda's way of having him defeat enemies that he's not ready for yet... so that opponents that are still on that level can still be a menace to him. Sometimes Luffy surpasses the guys he defeats only on a later arc, with some exceptions, but it's very notorious post-TS.
 
At one point we were dangerously close to even Holdem beating Doffy. Man Yankers have the absolute worst scaling in the entire fandom.
The same fandom that was adamant that characters somehow grew hundred times stronger every island to justify their insanity are now completely against the idea that the Luffy that fought Kizaru & Gorosei was stronger than the one that faced Kaido, how convenient lol.
 
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