With Gear 4, Luffy overuses his haki as a means of empowering his Devil Fruit. And as a trade off for using that power he loses his haki for ten minutes
Pre timeskip Luffy would use his elastic body to grow to the size of giants with gear 3 and the trade off would be shrinking his body.
Like a property of rubber, even though it’s a mythical Zoan, Luffy still has to deal with recoil when he stretches his powers too much.
However this is the first time Luffys ever stretched his powers to such a degree. As such will the recoil be a loss of his rubbery abilities and he’d revert back to normal human for some time.
If so, how long would this last? I think it’s the only way Oda can ensure that Luffys fights from now on has stakes is so that Luffy can’t just go gear 5 in every fight like he does for Gear 4.
Pre timeskip Luffy would use his elastic body to grow to the size of giants with gear 3 and the trade off would be shrinking his body.
Like a property of rubber, even though it’s a mythical Zoan, Luffy still has to deal with recoil when he stretches his powers too much.
However this is the first time Luffys ever stretched his powers to such a degree. As such will the recoil be a loss of his rubbery abilities and he’d revert back to normal human for some time.
If so, how long would this last? I think it’s the only way Oda can ensure that Luffys fights from now on has stakes is so that Luffy can’t just go gear 5 in every fight like he does for Gear 4.