Theory Gear Fourth predictions and theories

[xldon2lx]

It's gonna be like all those usual animes...

This is gonna be something like goku vs cell or gon vs pitou where the protagonist is gonna get a power buff then overwhelms the enemy by dodging/blocking all its attacks and gets flown far away on each hit making an epic comeback. So my bet is luffy would get a speed & power boost like probably increasing the elasticity pressure of his body.

Or in simple terms just take for example a simple rubber band hitting you on the skin then upgraded to a rubber used by a slingshot or something.

 

[I Am Atomic]

Gear second was blood, gear third was bone, my idea is gear fourth is muscle/flesh.

I thought it'd be interesting if he took full control of the elasticity of his body. In my idea of Gear Fourth, he retains the same shape, but gets slightly darker, like a lighter version of armament haki.

He'd fight in this way without stretching, as we're used to with the rest of his gears. When he fights in Gear Fourth, he takes any blow, or counters it with one of his own, has his body internally vibrate, strengthening the attack, and returning the attack with his own power PLUS the force he was hit with almost immediately.

Say someone punches him, and Luffy counters his punch by punching the dude in the fist (because that's how he fights) the dude's strength shockwave travels through Luffy's body into his attack on the other side of his body. When Luffy swings and hits the dude with his next punch, the force of that punch is Luffy's PLUS the force the dude hit him with at first.

Now, he could chain these attacks, as each successive attack could be considered stronger than the last (force waves bouncing back and forth inside of Luffy's body, allowing Luffy to strike at the right times to build them up and make them stronger).

Another idea I thought of is Luffy could go Gear Fourth, and start punching into his hand as he usually does before battle, and he just keeps punching harder and harder, faster and faster, building up the force, and then smashes the big bad in the face. That'd be an interesting introduction, we just see Luffy one shotting a big bad he's had trouble fighting previously with Gear Second and Third.

The downside, because every awesome bonus must have a downside is two fold:

One, if he doesn't connect with a hit after building up sucessive hits, the force just propagates uncontrollably throughout his body and he goes back to regular Luffy, with his limbs/body flailing everywhere as the forces he's been bouncing back and forth in his body are unleashed. Doesn't nessecarily cause bodily harm, but it makes Luffy temporarily lose control, for longer and stronger amounts of time based on how much force he's accumulated.

Two, and the real issue, if Luffy continues to attack like this and doesn't win in time, the forces inside of his body could build up enough to literally tear him apart. With this, if he gets to a certain point where he hasn't won yet, he'd have to force himself to miss and hope that the guy he's attacking doesn't take advantage of the fact that he'll be vulnerable when he loses control of the forces inside his body.

Maybe after some training he can learn to ground himself before building up too much power, but yeah.

Not my Idea

 

[Kracken]

I agree with amitnaruto's theory about contraction but I don't think he'll look the same. Every time Luffy's done a gear it's changed his body visibly, gear 2 he went pink and shiny with steam and gear 3 he got huge limbs. I think with gear 4 he may shrink a little, not to silly degrees like after gear 3 but if for example his arm muscles (and bones too maybe) all contracted I think the length of his arm would be shorter and I think the muscles would be bunched a bit up too so they'd look bigger. If this contraction happened to his entire body I think you'd be left with Luffy overall looking smaller but with bigger muscles. My only concern is Luffy's already small so shrinking him further might look silly while fighting such a tall opponent as Doflamingo.

 

[flushfire]

Re: Gear Fourth - The Power of Vibrations (theory)

Eh. Vibrations are counter-intuitive considering rubber is commonly used as damping/anti-vibration material. I do understand that this is a work of fiction and some suspension of disbelief should be involved but not all reason (and laws of physics) should be thrown out.

 

[CrimsonDOO]

Hello

Someone said that G4 would have to be related to his muscles since G2 had to do with increasing his blood flow and G3 with expanding his bones. In the last chapter Luffy says something along the lines of "your birdcage is in MY way". This leads me to believe that Luffy will in fact expand if not for at least a moment. Doflamingo explains how the fight cannot last for more than an hour since everyone inside will die. One speculation is that the fight will be over quickly which does make sense. On the hand, they may be hinting that the birdcage will be destroyed by Luffy in to time, courtesy of G4. So either DD is going to get destroyed by G4 immediately OR Luffy is going to go G4 and destroy the cage in the process. It has been a long arc and maybe its time to wrap it up quickly but none of Luffy's fights are over quickly. Personally I feel like Luffy will destroy the Birdcage. (Which would be awesome since everyone in Dressrosa would be left in awe)

So my theory on G4 is very similar to contraction. On the last page Luffy is biting his arm. I'm thinking his will blow air into his muscles expanding them thus expanding himself so much that he tears the cage apart. From there when he looks like a giant ball of muscle Luffy will condense all the way back to his original form(just A LOT more muscle-toned). Just like Goku: Went Ape mode (G3) then condensed back to a more efficient form Ssj4 (G4?). It'll be cool to have him go from giant to small and just destroy DD.
OR
Luffy, instead of blowing air into his muscles through his arm, can suck his blood?. No Idea haha but basically he'd be doing the opposite of what he does for G3 which would contract his muscles and having the same effect.

The vibration idea someone previously said seem really cool but sort of overpowered. I think his power can't be too strong since there has to be room for improvement(G5!!!).

In any case my hype for this chapter led me to make an account to post this. No matter what G4 ends up being I'm sure we will all be happy nonetheless.

 

[Notice me Escanor senpai]

I've seen many people say that Luffy was biting his hand in this page
http://readms.com/r/one_piece/783/2743/21
If he is then his teeth must be ridiculously small because I can't see them over his arm where they should normally appear where he "bites".
It's more likely that he's not biting his arm (he's not Eren) but you can see a vein popping in his arm,it could just to show how tense he is, or it's related to the activation of Gear 4.
I thought I'd clear that up.

 

[Holt]

Well he doesn't seem to be biting since his arm is infront of his mouth not under. Seeing that page just brings back all the hype . That was a way to end the chapter.
Anyway, personally, I don't think he had started showing any gear 4 signs there. The veins are arguable but it doesn't seem like something to special and even if it was related, it doesn't give much in the way of hints. Still, it's weird that the vein has to be there considering 'anger' veins are usually on the face/forehead. Knowing Oda, it could really mean something but like I said, it isn't much for hints.

 

[Notice me Escanor senpai]

Well he doesn't seem to be biting since his arm is infront of his mouth not under. Seeing that page just brings back all the hype . That was a way to end the chapter.
Anyway, personally, I don't think he had started showing any gear 4 signs there. The veins are arguable but it doesn't seem like something to special and even if it was related, it doesn't give much in the way of hints. Still, it's weird that the vein has to be there considering 'anger' veins are usually on the face/forehead. Knowing Oda, it could really mean something but like I said, it isn't much for hints.

In a physical effort the veins tend to appear more, so maybe at that time the muscles in his arm were made tense, as in him contracting his muscles, but it could be anything really.

 

[Deleted member 169696]

I made a lil drawing here. This is what I expect from Gear 4

Spoiler

 

[Holt]

That's a nice illustration. I have similar thoughts that he expands then contracts but I'm not sure about the aura part.

 

[Deleted member 169696]

That's a nice illustration. I have similar thoughts that he expands then contracts but I'm not sure about the aura part.

Certainly there might be no visible aura, but at the very least I hope Luffy learns to attack from a distance without making a direct body contact with an enemy. It would come in handy when he fights Blackbeard.

 

[I Am Atomic]

I made a lil drawing here. This is what I expect from Gear 4

Spoiler

LOL! Nice drawing!

The illustration of your's look cool but this opposes luffy's fighting style - which is charge in and punch. This looks like a safe move where he is not in danger. But this will be a good move to take out the birdcage along with DD without slicing up his hand

 

[hokageji]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_rubber


Smart rubber is a polymeric material that is able to "heal" when torn.

Doflamingo's strings can do some serious damage and cuts, the rubber will be able to heal itself. I think Gear 4 would have to do something with that. Maybe Luffy would be able to split his body into 2, one with gear 2 and 3 and then be able to merge them later and heal over a period.

 

[keeper1h]

New idea: I'm wondering if it's not about Luffy fighting with his limbs literally propelled by compressed air - just like firing them from the Gaon Cannon.
He inflates his upper arms/thighs and then he releases the pressure leaving the rest to his elastic body.
Since we are talking about Luffy, the result of this is a force able to send Doflamingo flying into his birdcage, crushing it in the process. And maybe the recoil will heavily damage even the Flower Field.
(IMHO Gear 4 must surpass King Punch)

 

[jamarTheDem]

GEAR 2 - Speed , Agility & Quickness . (Blood) *Speeds Up Blood Flow To Increase Speed . Friction Creates Speed .*

GEAR 3 - Brute Strength , Bigger Attacks , Longer Load Up Time (Bone) *Blows Into His Bone/Flesh To Gain Brute Strength*

GEAR 4 - Using His Veins/Flesh To Gain Even Greater "Short Distance" Strength Also The Ability To Use Air Pressure Hits/Kicks Picked Up From Jinbe . The Cost Of This Technique Is The Lost Of His Reach , So Now He's Still Able To Stretch But Only Short Distances Because His Muscles Contracts In His Arms & Legs To Such A Small Density That Once He Let His Muscle Go It's Like A SHOTGUN Instead Of A Pistol . Shorter Distance But More Power And More Speed . (Muscles) *Uses His Muscles To Gain The Ability To Strike Like Lightning Or A Shotgun .*


What Do You Guys/Gals Think ?

 

[kkck]

Well, the last chapter ends with luffy apparently being about to bite into his arm. Which is basically what he does for gear 3. So it makes sense to assume he will force air into himself. Also, within the context of the chapter the implication is that luffy is fast enough to deal with doflamingo, the issue is him lacking the physical strength to do damage. So what I am thinking is that gear 4 will address precisely that. Gear 2 is fast and increases his firepower but only because of the increase in speed. Gear 3 is perhaps slower than even regular luffy but makes up for it with his size and increased physical strength. Gear 4 will basically be luffy forcing air into himself but instead of inflating himself he will compress it, his size will not be altered in any way. So he will be able to maintain his speed(logically the air should weight him down but I am going to assuming funky manga physics for this one) and attack with increased strength.

 

[porks]

gear 4th is..




Mini Luffy. dense rubber, full haki.

 

[kkck]

I am not sure if it would make sense for luffy's gear to actually include haki. So far the gears are independent of haki, basically special uses of his DF. I am not sure if oda at this point would change that to make a gear specifically require haki. Although if my theory is correct then perhaps it would make sense that he uses haki to harden himself and prevent himself from inflating.

 

[jamarTheDem]

I didn't see him bite his arm , what I seen is him putting his arm infront of his mouth . I still think His Muscle contraction is Gear 4 activator . Same as Gear 2 is him pumping his blood/heart rate and Gear 3 is him using his bone marrow/flesh .

 

[I Am Atomic]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-haE4ITT_eY

Someone might have mentioned it, but this guy explains it very well.