The mention of the Payback War already happened.
What... There's only one art style... which is Oda's style. Not sure what you're trying to say here.
And remember how many times he thought Crocodile before he won?
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And you don't even realise seemingly that Crocodile wasn't stronger than Luffy, it's only because he was a Logia to begin with. That was also the first Logia that Luffy fought. If Crocodile was so much stronger without his intangibility, then he shouldn't have been hurt by Luffy's attacks.
Crocodile was stronger than Luffy, he beat him once and beat him again even when Luffy had his water with him. And whether you want to argue strength or not, it's still a fact Luffy would have died if Robin didn't save him, and if one drop of water didn't somehow replenish the water inside his body. It still took a lot for Luffy to beat him.
This is definitely a tough spot Luffy is in. Yet it also shows again just how far Luffy is willing to go. Two points to that statement: the first is that at the beginning of this arc, Luffy did not set out to take BM down, instead he was aiming to just sneak in and take Sanji back from under her nose. In a way, that is acknowledging just how much a gap that potentially is between Luffy and the Yonko BM. Furthermore to that point, Luffy has alliance with now two other supernovas with the simple understanding that it will take more to beat a Yonko. Now that fact that Luffy is willing to risk it all in facing her outright is because of his nakama. All in all, she has threatened his nakama and that is something the captain of any crew cannot allow. Thus, it has set in motion for Luffy to faceoff. The second point to this is that Luffy was willing risk hi entire adventure, and two a lesser extent the adventures of his crew to get Sanji back. When he said he would not leave that spot and would die there, that is without regard for the rest of his crew that is headed to Wano and would be assisting in taking down Kaido. It is similar to rescuing Robin. Luffy was willing to make the WG his enemy for the purpose of protecting her. He was saying to her that he will be strong enough to shoulder the burden of making such enemies. And it is the same point he is making now with the Yonko. His nakama are his family and he is willing to make enemies of them as well in order to keep his nakama.
I am hoping for a push in his king's disposition again. I mean mingo was alright in using his, but the king's disposition of a Yonko has to be a totally difterent level! And really want to see if Luffy can use his a bit better now where he may be able to knockout a few support fighters of BM.
Simply put, Crocodile was stronger than Luffy in their first few meetings. Crocodile was a serious pirate and logia at that. He was pretty aiming to set up his territory like a Yonko of the first half the grandline. His influence and strength is why it was such a big deal with LUffy took him down and exposed him. For a pirate of that degree to be defeated... and it be by a rookie really did shake the world. Luffy only survived the first few meeting because Crocodile did not take him seriously as a threat. If he had done so, he would fought Luffy seriously their first time and made sure to kill him right in front of him. Even Law acknowledged that many enemies of the SH were defeated because they made the mistake to take them lightly.
I'm sure Luffy was gambling that Sanji would come back and give Luffy food, and that he expected to win the "wager." Luffy has immense trust in his crew, and he knew or had an intuition that Sanji was compelled to leave for some reason. He likely had no plan to fight Big Mom because he knew he either wouldn't win without severe damage, if he could win at all, or because of time issues. ANd there's a difference between making WG his enemies, who are after him and Robin anyway, and making Yonkou his enemies, given he can try to avoid them.
I'm urged to reply, Teach is the man that won't fall in the same pit that Doflamingo fell, an gigantic nerf of a pit. He able to wound a Yonko by his mere hands, the fruit that allows him to be strongest said by him and tied with the most destructive one.
I know what you're getting at, but taking out an underling 'without too much trouble' isn't that easy I'd say. I also think, that Luffy should be able to beat a guy like Cracker in order to become Pirate King, but we're talking about a Yonkou commander here, a guy who's maybe as strong as Marco, and Marco was strong enough to fight an Admiral. Obviously, having a good DF also plays a big role. I agree that Luffy needs some kind of power-up, but maybe his DF is more suited for fighting BigMom or Kaidou, who knows.
But Marco also failed to deal any damage against the admirals. Just like his fellow 14 commanders.
