General & Others Why no take seriously the man who defeated Kaido?

[HeroesNZ]

I thought the same but I'm skeptical on this one too. Since the haki sparks appeared on impact in G5 against the snake on Elbaf, I have a theory that Oda was mostly drawing these on impactul panels and not throwaway panels where Luffy is failing to do much. Lucci fight is the only thing stopping me from fully believing it since he did land a big shot on Lucci at the end, but we didn't see the lines.

The next major battle will be the dealbreaker for sure on where base Luffy stands. Luffy has no reason to not use adCoC if he is struggling without it and the situation is dire, it makes no narrative sense.

Yeah agreed, Egghead was only supposed to be a short arc I don't think it was intended to be super useful power-scaling wise similar to Marine ford - Elbaf is a more major arc so we should get a better idea of Base Luffy's strength.

 

[Ven437]

Yeah agreed, Egghead was only supposed to be a short arc I don't think it was intended to be super useful power-scaling wise similar to Marine ford - Elbaf is a more major arc so we should get a better idea of Base Luffy's strength.

We already did, he can’t land a clean hit on a child giant, needed G5 for animals weaker than veteran levels, and missed a G4 attack on a chained up Loki

Old Gaban is probably gonna dance circles around him too