But it makes sense tho
The whole post-timeskip was basically a build up for the Wano arc
Once this arc is over, the Strawhats will be on another level among the strongest crews out there, tough 1vs1 battles wont be something rare as it was before that, specially for the main combatants of the SH. Then you just need to add the Navy and the WG, the SH will eventually need to face them
And between Kuroshio and Mr. 2 there was 100 chapters.
Between Mr. 2 and Jabra there was 225 chapters
Between Jabra and Absalom there was 50 chapters.
All of Post TS was setting the stage for wano. Hence the massive breaks in fights. But there won’t be many of those left now that all the stages have been set for the final war with BB then the war with the WG
Giving me how Oda used to do things pre-skip does not in any way convince me that for some reason after Wano Oda’s going to go back to doing that.
Yes, I know that Oda used to draw fights for all the Strawhats regularly. He quite blatantly does not do that anymore. I do not see this glut of one vs ones approaching when Oda has outright said he thinks fights slow the series down too much. We’ve seen the truth if that on Wano, how many people after the Flying Six and Queen fights were saying “oh, there’s one more chapter left, of course the fights aren‘t over yet.”
But they were, because this is post-skip Oda. He does not like drawing fights.
Nor is the argument about “build up” very convincing.
Okay, so you’re saying the reason we didn‘t get as much one vs ones was because Oda was, basically, saving them up for Wano.
So… why’s he not going to do the exact same thing after this arc, since the final war is even more important?
The fact that the Strawhats are on another level just drops the number of potential fights down. There’s a reason Luffy and Zoro are walking out of Wano already using ACoC and having fought Yonko, it’s so Oda doesn’t need to spend anymore time building them up and can throw them right into their final fights.
The final war is all that’s left for a crew wide fight. And the Blackbeard Pirates are blatantly not going down before that. Marineford had both him and the World Gov, so will the final war.