One Piece Thread: Gear 2nd!

I couldn’t even get halfway through.

A lot of those questions have been answered already.

Some are going to get answered as the story progresses

And some are nonsensical.

Looks like King Kong …

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…got shit on Doffy.

Cool YouTube comment:
"#OnePieceGreatness: Just like to point out the juxtaposition between Crocodile not caring about his crew but accepting betrayal, while Doflamingo cares about his crew and therefore doesn’t accept betrayal. One is free from earthly attachments and is sent flying into the air by Luffy while the other is bound back into the ground for his chains or rather, ‘strings’ of betrayal. One was a “Desert Beast” while the other was a “Heavenly Demon”. Both are now out of their element both figuratively and literally. And the title of the chapter is Heaven and Earth. If that wasn’t enough: Crocodile worked “underground” hiding his actions from people. Luffy punched him into the sky where everyone could see him. Doflamingo thought of himself above everyone and sat atop a throne where everyone could see him, Luffy punched him down to everyones else’s level. If you look even further, Alabasta and Dressrosa are actually opposites in many other ways such as: Alabasta was the crew fighting secretly to save a country from being overthrown. Dressrosa was the crew uniting an entire nation, countless pirates, gladiators, bounty hunters and the marines to overthrow a country. Baroque Works was a secret organization of individuals who didn’t even know their boss and really had no connection. Doffy’s group was a tight nit family that lived decades of hardship together. Alabasta was covered up. In Dressrosa Fujitora is letting the fuck-up be exposed on purpose. GODA. Nuff said. (10/10) Chapter!"

Im willing to bet now Dofla will lose that cold hearted calculated demeanor and will just go batshit crazy. Luffy will destroy him now.

How crazy would it be if Dofla begs Luffy to take his life so he doesnt have face Kaido?

oops repost! Delete plz. Posted it by accident.

I cannot wait to have this whole fight animated!

More specifically, I want to see a high budget movie retelling of this arc, like with Alabasta. That way we can see the fight in style!

I can’t wait to see how things unravel, especially with the Marines/ World Government. I’m pretty sure we will see the Gorosei after all these years. The CP-0 will have a lot to disclose.

Akainu is also going to be pissed. “Damn Ds…”

Sigh… why do all one piece villains always have to try to block or defend or block Luffy’s ultimate attack(s)? Lucci, Enel, Crocodile, Aarlong, Moria, etc… Just once I would like to see someone say “fuck that” and simply zip out of the way and counter attack from there. Bleh…

I still think that Dofla will get up

Because if that happened then Luffy would lose and this is still a Shonen manga.

If Lufy didn’t have the help he did he’d be fucked. He was not able to beat Doffy one v one. So despite this defeat Doffy is still nothing to fuck with. Also I think it’d be cool if Devil fruits could become hybrid fruits. Like maybe combing Black Beards Darkness Fruit and Kizaru’s Light Fruit yields the Chaos fruit. Which in addition to the original fruits abilities the user gains a new one, in this case control over space. ( like creating dimensional portals or holes in the space around you ).

If Lufy didn’t have the help he did he’d be fucked. He was not able to beat Doffy one v one. So despite this defeat Doffy is still nothing to fuck with. Also I think it’d be cool if Devil fruits could become hybrid fruits. Like maybe combing Black Beards Darkness Fruit and Kizaru’s Light Fruit yields the Chaos fruit. Which in addition to the original fruits abilities the user gains a new one, in this case control over space. ( like creating dimensional portals or holes in the space around you ).

We have a fan fiction section.

Normally, as they themselves are at the last of their strength as well and are trying to end things as quick as possible or defend long enough to retaliate. Along with most of the Luffy’s battle winnings last attack usually cover a lot of real estate or are extremely fast and thus would be hard to evade in their current damaged forms.

I’d say the only one that maybe could have won or at least did more damage to Luffy had he evaded was Blueno but that just goes to over confidence in his own technique and Luffy being a OP main character.

Well Arlong didn’t try to block or defend. He went for the kill, landed his attack and right after Luffy landed his. Game set match.
Moria was beaten by his own boat. Though he was so damn big it’d be impossible to dodge a gear 2/3 Luffy.
Crocodile had his attacked dodged and launched into the air. Where he did two attacks, Luffy weathered the first one and counter attacked the 2nd.
Enel specifically says that the attack was too fast for him to dodge.
Lucci weathered a Gear 2 Gatling Gun earlier in the fight with his tenkai. This one just so happened to be stronger than the last one (despite Luffy literally running on fumes).

Lucci was the closest to what you described. But that was a calculated risk and he lost (which was going to happen anyway). Exactly how many other ways do you envision a fight ending anyway? Just in your examples so far we have 2 counter attacks (Arlong and Crocodile), too slow to dodge and thus a sitting duck (Moria and Enel), and one tried to block the attack (Doffy). All of these fights have to end somehow. Generally with Luffy’s punch inside their stomach.

Doffy was damaged. I am pretty sure he coudln’t move like he wanted to anyway. His organs were hurt than he took a kong gun to the face. He was likley on his last legs as well. Its just that he has experience in that position and utilized his environment stringts more and try to finish his opponent off quickly. Besides even when doflamingo could move alright he still couldn’t dodge a Kong Gun so blocking it was logical thing to do, especially with his strongest guard strings.

This was a legit win. Not some *sneeze *accidentally becomes a god *accidentally has healing powers now bs.

This. I think the panels might make folks underestimate the speed of that attack. Doflamingo was just as exhausted and his mobility while probably still better than most would’ve definitely been hindered.

It’s like me asking why a gassed boxer didn’t just dodge that telegraphed punch in the 12 round of a slugfest. Luffy was smart to not drain himself with such an attack early on because he would’ve had no chance.

1v1 Doflamingo was clearly the stronger opponent, but I think that was intentional because this arc emphasized the teamwork drawn from Luffy’s broken charisma ability rather than raw strength. The introduction of another D, Trafalgar Law, further displayed a cooperation that was unusual for Luffy who relented to facilitate Law’s need for personal revenge against Doflamingo.

Yep, like MiHawk said at Marine Ford “That boy has an incredible power…the power to make allies out of just about anyone”