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Why was Hawkins' nerfed?


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#88
I don't think he was nerfed. I just think Oda hype-tooled him.
Law is one of the strongest supernova and is imo on par with the calamities.

I also no longer think that he is necessarily weaker than the tobi roppo. It seems as if you can only become a tobi roppo if there is an opening or you are given permission to challenge one of them. This means that Hawkins most likely never had the chance to become a tobi roppo.

I think he is at the very least stronger than Page One, however imo he would still lose hard against X Drake.
 
#90
I actually feel that he wasn't needed, he just didn't bother to master haki because of his devil fruit. In the new world good haki is key, and law's fruit is already op. Hawkins according to my knowledge hasn't shown haki at all. He should have it.
 
#92
Title says it all. I believe Hawkins was terribly nerfed by Oda and will explain why

1- Pretimeskip he mentioned that fighting an admiral with just 10 bodies isn't wise, implying he could at least stock 10bodies


Yet apparently post-timeskip, his body store limit remained 10?



When you look at the big power difference the SHs and others guys like Law received with their abilities from pretimeskip to post-timeskip(pretimeskip Law only displayed a small room comparatively to his massive rooms in PH and dressrosa for example), it made this weird

2- We saw that when Hawkins' ability is available, he can transfer Law's room slashes to his subordinates without losing a life due to Law's room slashes not killing people



It was further confirmed when indicated Law would need to slash for the kill to run out his doll supply


And pretimeskip, Hawkins' ability could operate on people located multiple grooves apart


And thus technically, post-timeskip Hawkins could have easily have been able to place his dolls supplies far out Law's reach even in case he wanted to attack them instead of him, and thus essentially making him then immune to Law's regular/range room slashes since he'd be able to redirect them to anyone of his doll supplies infinitely without losing any doll, with Law needing close range named attacks reduce his doll supply

But not only, he never used that aspect of his ability somehow, but he decided to somehow not replenish his doll supply, only coming with the 3 live of Law's subordinates outside of his own

And the worse thing is that even those doll supplies ended up released at the cause of Law's capture, a moment when Hawkins could have killed Law anytime, but decided to keep him alive for interrogation purposes instead.

Resolution which due to betrayal of mysterious guy(clearly Drake) ended up playing against his favor, since he ultimately ended up facing Law with no doll supply available

3- Preskip Hawkins again had a last ressort technique that he used against Kizaru when he was running out of dolls. His goma no sou


Yet somehow never used it against Law? Also considering this ability allows him to sprout straws over his body, shouldn't it technically allow him to reattach his limbs even in case he was split by Law's ability?
and he was up against law who has one of the most haxed DF power in one piece and you dont think law would make plan how to get around df power, dont see the problem with law defeating hawkins.
Also considering this ability allows him to sprout straws over his body, shouldn't it technically allow him to reattach his limbs even in case he was split by Law's ability?
You made this whole thread saying why hawkings shouldnt been defeated by law but you forget that has radio knife a technique that stops the person retaching their body parts for a period of time.
 
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