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Luffy defeats a yonko's right hand man. Goes on to further hone his future observation haki by now and just learnt lvl2 arnament haki. Still gets 1 tap K-Oed by some dude who's below the flying six, who are below the 3 all stars, who are below kaido. And this nigga luffy thinks he can defeat kaido now😐🤦♂️
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That "some dude" is one of the Supernovas of the Worst Generation, each and every one of them has survived a bunch of shit, including the top officers of the Yonko (or the Yonko themselves) and/or one of the Admirals, soooo...yeah, there's that.
Now on top of this, a reminder, Luffy has upgraded his Observation Haki, yeah, but unless I'm mistaken he hasn't quite mastered it yet, and it seems to require a certain level of focus (even Katakuri needed to maintain this or lose his Future Vision iirc), so if Luffy had time to centre himself, Scratchman's attacks would have been dealt with much more easily (this is also the first time Luffy saw Appo's powers in action). Next point, the next level of Armament is only useful if Luffy could hit something, but he got wrecked and Zoro made the right choice to dip with his captain, so that didn't happen either.
Also, Luffy got back into the fight like a second or two after the ol' blank eyes showed up, so he kinda just shrugged off the KO, you should know Strawhat better by now dude. I mean, Kaido knocking him out only pissed him off so much that he knocked out some of the Yonko's men in what I feel is a hilariously petty way of saying "This ain't over!"
That "some dude" is one of the Supernovas of the Worst Generation, each and every one of them has survived a bunch of shit, including the top officers of the Yonko (or the Yonko themselves) and/or one of the Admirals, soooo...yeah, there's that.
Now on top of this, a reminder, Luffy has upgraded his Observation Haki, yeah, but unless I'm mistaken he hasn't quite mastered it yet, and it seems to require a certain level of focus (even Katakuri needed to maintain this or lose his Future Vision iirc), so if Luffy had time to centre himself, Scratchman's attacks would have been dealt with much more easily (this is also the first time Luffy saw Appo's powers in action). Next point, the next level of Armament is only useful if Luffy could hit something, but he got wrecked and Zoro made the right choice to dip with his captain, so that didn't happen either.
Also, Luffy got back into the fight like a second or two after the ol' blank eyes showed up, so he kinda just shrugged off the KO, you should know Strawhat better by now dude. I mean, Kaido knocking him out only pissed him off so much that he knocked out some of the Yonko's men in what I feel is a hilariously petty way of saying "This ain't over!"
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Some people are mad about Scratch, but it's important to remember that the most dangerous time to fight a Fruit user is the first time, when you don't know what the hell they are or what they can do. It's probably got something to do with haki and sound waves, but Luffy doesn't know that and neither does Zoro. He's also one of the Supernovas, who are (ALLEGEDLY) all approximately equal to or around Luffy's own level, though Luffy has probably surpassed most of them given his last few recent powerups.
It's also important to remember Luffy's own weaknesses. Physical blows do almost nothing to him, he was trading punches with haki users all the way back in the Ciper Pol arc, and he's always been functionally immune to gunfire and even cannonfire as well because of it. His weaknesses are cuts and explosions, because rubber won't help with either. What was it that Scratchman stunned him with? Not the punch, which he shrugged off, or the cut, when he sent at Zoro instead. The explosion. Which makes sense. If there was ever a cheap way to beat Luffy, it would be to just chuck dynamite and fire at him endlessly while keeping your distance. We'll see if Scratchman is smart enough to do that, or if he'll just be a cocky bastard. Or maybe Kidd will deal with him, we'll see.
It's also important to remember Luffy's own weaknesses. Physical blows do almost nothing to him, he was trading punches with haki users all the way back in the Ciper Pol arc, and he's always been functionally immune to gunfire and even cannonfire as well because of it. His weaknesses are cuts and explosions, because rubber won't help with either. What was it that Scratchman stunned him with? Not the punch, which he shrugged off, or the cut, when he sent at Zoro instead. The explosion. Which makes sense. If there was ever a cheap way to beat Luffy, it would be to just chuck dynamite and fire at him endlessly while keeping your distance. We'll see if Scratchman is smart enough to do that, or if he'll just be a cocky bastard. Or maybe Kidd will deal with him, we'll see.
