I'd say you'd at least need to be pushed to your limit potentially. For someone like Kaido, it's just that he has so much fight left in him that pushing him to this point takes an extraordinary amount of time. Not only that, I'd imagine it's a huge waste of energy if he can just keep up with Luffy at this point already.
Idk, we have to wait and see what happens this week. If this is it....then at this point it is pretty lame that a Yonko antagonist couldn't output the same type of awakening as a mythical zoan. If not, then at least it explains why he's waited so long to use it. I can imagine Zoan awakenings are just far harder to achieve than paramecia, so it's potentially why none of the F6 or Calamities had it.
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Yeah but the counter point is that he's mentioned awakening is a zoan transformation basically, and if you look at Luffy's it's a constant one, not something temporary or in flux with his powers.