Oda said there are limitations but he didn't say which. We don't know if his powers go at the cost of stamina like Law's.
I think that would be it. Have a high enough damage output that he'd be killed in one attack.
Almost certainly. The primary justification for the severe damage was some natural superiority of Akainu's DF over Ace's. Even if Akainu had managed to inflict anywhere near the same amount of damage, Marco's DF's ability is regeneration, he would've healed and kept going.
Not to mention we did see Marco intercepting a magma-punch from Akainu when he protected Luffy, and it didn't do anything to him.
I'm pretty sure Marco could of taken Akainu in a 1 on 1 . Needless to say if Marco would of blacked out after Ace died instead of being a leader and moving the Whitebeards out of Akainu way, he would of kicked Akainu ass . I just don't understand how could Akainu withstand ALL of Whitebeards attack ? Not only that Whitebeard was burned by Akainu , how could Marco block Akainu with Haki but WB couldn't ?
Yeah, actually that’s one OP DF … Ace said his Vital organs were burnt…. Now I wonder in case of Marco if the punch would had gone through the heart, could he had regenerated in that case as well ….
I will not be sure about that … it was a one on one fight with WB and what Marco blocked was one punch , which was also not thrown on him…and that was also not with ease like shanks did… …. In one on one fight it’s all about putting the punch just where the guard is down .. and obviously we have already seen now that Akainu took the Gura gura powers head on and still got back on feet in a short period of time… he is a beast for sure … and seeing his endurance , it’s not just his DF that makes him a beast…
I think people seem to underestimate Akainu and the Admirals in general. Akainu took Marco's haki kick and Vista's sword powered with haki to the neck!!! he shrugged it off as a little nuisance IIRC he said something of that kind.
If such damage had finished him off instantaneously, then it'd be over, however, I imagine that as long as Marco is capable of activating his DF abilities he's going to be fine.
He survived getting half of his brain blown apart by Kizaru, so I doubt destroying his heart would make any difference.
So you think Sabo could play with Marco like he played with Burgess? Do you really think Oda would show everything Top Tier characters are capable off at the middle of the manga? He is basically in the same position as Rayleigh and has an OP af DF
DD didn't take control of Jozu, he halted his movements by getting him tangled in strings like he did sanji at green bitt. Incase you forgot, BB told his entire crew (before the addition of level 6 inmates) to stand down from Ace stating they were no match for him. Marco is above ace and can also use haki. In this 2 years, he definitely got stronger and he is also managing the WB pirates. The gorosei also acknowledged him as one of the potentials to stop BB. Marco at burgess level? That's laughable. He is easily above. Easily. Don't also forget his OP DF that let's him regenerate. He had no problems taking on kizaru alone and only lost when he got concerned about WB and turned his attention away only to get sea-stone handcuffs on him. Even then he took a number of light shots from kizaru and was still mostly fine.
Very well said. People seem to underestimate WB's top men because they didn't wipe the floor with the Admirals without taking into mind those circumstances. Something I'd like to add is that since Oda Haki'd up those fights would have been written differently if they happened now because now we know about haki. Also just from a story telling standpoint, why should Oda show some of the most powerful characters in universe going all out halfway through the story?
While generally I agree, it's hard to tell how strong someone is just because the character could fight the Shichibukai or Admirals for a while. Even Sanji or Zoro have done that after the timeskip.
Well, as far as we have seen luffy was kicked down by doflamingo without all that much trouble, zoro was pushed back by ishou and sanji barely held for a bit against doflamingo. Law has not done all that well against doflamingo either. Impressive, yeah, but the difference is quite clear. Given this I would think that marco from 2 years ago easily showed he is superior to the top 3 strawhats today. I'd go as far as saying that the gang would do as well against marco as they have done against the people I have mentioned which does show a significant advantage over them.
