ok, this argument about doflamingo stalling because luffy was too powerful is bullshit, you all seem not to understand how luffy fights.
he gets more power by fighting more recklessly, sacrificing more life span and stamina while he does it (although he regains energy rather quickly), so if those drawbacks outweigh the advantages, then taking advantage of the drawbacks is just as plausible as luffy using its unfairly massive increase in power, this isnt a plus for doffy, but its a minus for luffy. you cant judge a persons strentgh without looking at weakness, and if a weakness is ultra specific, then thats on luffy, notice how doflamingo has none of these problems, or akainu, or whitebeard or sengoku.... the guys who fight within the limits of their own strength.
haven't seen any refutations about the fact that doflamingo was already handicapped.
Anyone can be more powerful by fighting recklessly, luffy's DF just allows him to do it to an extent which would kill normal people. i dont see anyone where who could tell me that doffy was RUNNING, no, he tanked all those ridiculously powerful hits, DEFENSE is just as relevant in a battle as attack. if after all the handicaps and sacrificed lifespan, doflamingo can still take all those hits, and begin to demolish an army("i dont need any 'stamina' for you fodder), whereas, luffy has to take a nice 10 minute rest, its pretty obvious who the monster here is.
for the guy who mentioned whitebeard destroying akainu after being impaled twice, thanks for proving my point, im sure whitebeard wasn't gasping for breath or screaming in pain, but don't bullshit me and say he wasn't seriously injured or that he wasnt feeling any pain.
So yeah, take away those handicaps, and doflamingo wipes the floor with luffy, i cant believe after all that people underrate doflamingo, just because he lost in the end.
Gear 4th was developed for monsters that he couldn't normally handle, from luffy's own words, so if he had to go gear 4th for doflamingo, which still wasn't enough, then gear 2nd was pretty damn useless against him,
---------- Post added at 11:50 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:43 AM ----------
stitches don't mean the wound has healed, the fibers have still been torn, they aren't connected, thus they aren't as effective, and they still hurt, albeit not as much as the open wounds, i don't see why this isn't the case (or worse) for otherwise fatal internal stitches.
And unless there is some double standard for doflamingo, where fighting moves take some energy, while an immovable fortress like birdcage that zorro, hundreds of fighters, hundreds of navy soilders, thousands of towns people, a navy admiral, franky, and a few hundreds tonttatas (stronger than the towns people), takes no effort at all, despite it being the same DF, and the exact same strings from the clones. why diidnt those immovable strings demolish luffy?
