Powers & Abilities The actual reason why Luffy has a Mythical God fruit and why the Nika asspull occured

[Aster]

Ok, if that’s how you feel then that’s your prerogative. I myself like it.

I mean im not bashing the power, just felt underwhelming when the top villain got turned into a jumping rope that's all

 

[God of Finance]

STILL Doesn't take away the fact that It killed all future tension for the series.

There's literally one saga afterwards . . . .

Killed future tension is ass. Oda building up Luffy VS Imu.

 

[Zenos7]

people predicted it

You mean some peeps made some theories? People make all kinds of theories based on the manga or color spreads or whatever.

 

[Just a member]

It is the opposite, Oda pumped Kaido a lot to (give some sort of sense of threat to sold more copies) have a character who seems an insurmountable wall that then Luffy overcomes with his cheat god power. G5 is not something he invented on the spot but for sure it was thought for a lot of time (even if it is still an asspull) and Oda wanted it used to beat an uber strong enemy never seen before that only this Nika god power could beat (or almost).

 

[Loki D. Terror]

G5 > Shanks and WB

 

[NAMELESS]

Is because Kaido was just too strong be logically beaten by Luffy otherwise

Oda probably couldn't find a way to use Luffy's rubber fruit in such a way that it would give him an advantage over Kaido since it was beyond his limits as a writer. Even a "normal Gear 5" - an awakening of the normal rubber fruit and changing the environment into rubber - wouldn't have been enough to bring down Kaido in a way that isn't bullshit. Oda had to give Luffy a literal God fruit that's only limit is the imagination of the user and Toon Force powers to bring down an exhausted Kaido in an extreme diff fight. Oda wanted to make Kaido strong due to the hype and to meet the expectations of the readers but he couldn't do it correctly in a narratively logical way and he made him too strong that it eventually led to the Nika's asspull

Oda basically cornered himself the same way Kishimoto did with Madara and Kaguya and he had to relay on a convenient asspull to save the MC's ass and move the story forward

Nika Nika fruit>Kaguya.

 

[Toby D. Dog]

I mean im not bashing the power, just felt underwhelming when the top villain got turned into a jumping rope that's all

Dude it’s ok, I’m not bashing your opinion.

 

[vikas]

Even BM qas like that.. But he made get defeated anyway.. Without her doing anything

 

[IsaziSempi]

The reason Oda made Luffy a God is to compete with Naruto and Ichigo. That is it period.
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Oda wrote himself into a corner the moment he introduced Kaido as a villain.

The amount of @$$ pulls + plot contrivances that nerfed Kaido is astronomical, off the top of my head I can't think of another arc villain in Shonen that was nerfed as heavily as Kaido.

• Fighting 8 of the 9 Red Scabbards
• Deciding to lift onigamshima
• While the island is lifted fighting the Supernova, knocks out Luffy
• Knocks out Luffy again kicked off the island
• Luffy comes back and gets murdered
• Luffy returns AGAIN this time awakened
• Kaido decides to take an island-tier attack after so many bouts which manages to knock him into a volcano ... (The assumption is that Kaido is knocked out)

Actually it makes since because Kaidou wanted to die. It was literally foreshadowed in his debut. He was jealous of whitebeard for finding a glorious place to end it all. The only shitty part was we were cheated out of a proper death and backstory!