Re: The Search for Straw Hat's New Nakama - 3rd Edition - Dressrosa arc
There is no way doflamingo had his insides cut up to no consequence to himself even with his stitching. Even doflamingo made the point that his ability is not quite the same as healing in the image you mentioned. I would take this to mean that rather than doflamingo not being affected by having his insides cut up the situation is that doflamingo's strength is so immense that he can continue fighting at that level even after law's attack. All he did there was emergency treatment which saved his life but healing for real should have taken more time. Luffy did go through some fights but he never took anything as bad as law's blade to his organs. He was just tired. Contrary to doflamingo whose insides probably looked like a sloppy joe.
I don't see how the fight with lucci is anywhere near similar to his fight with doflamingo. Lucci seemed strong at the time but he never seemed anywhere near as unbeatable as doflamingo. What we saw doflamingo do is basically easily and instantly own sanji, own law with only minor trouble repeatedly, then after taking a few serious attacks from law he was still easily able to own gear 2 and 3 luffy. The battle against doflamingo was an insane battle of attrition where doflamingo took an insane amount of damage before luffy could do anything. If luffy had fought doflamingo in the same circumstances he fought lucci, he would have died 10 times over and still not come out on top. Even if gear 4 would have worked the same against a perfectly healthy doflamingo, (which it probably wouldn't have) luffy would have still lost because it would not be enough to finish off doflamingo and there would be no one to protect him for 10 minutes.
I am just following what he himself states, why should i doubt it? Besides, that´s a rather biased way to look at it, simply from a point of view that DD has to be that much stronger which is questionable to say the least. Yes, it is not the same way as healing but rather emergency treatment but he also said that Law´s attempt was completely useless in the long run, i see no reason to doubt that. It definitely did not look like a sloppy joe though, the entire reason behind the last panel is to show how Doffy is fixing his organs. It´s not only about Luffy using his attacks, he also got some damage throughout it all and while his injuries were not really on the same level as DD´s injuries, Luffy has no way to recuperate unlike DD. I can only judge the way both looked and what´s been said, both leads to the conclusion that while it should not be disregarded, it was not an immense blow to DD´s fighting capabilities. Look at Luffy
here for example before he even started his "duel" against DD, he got a blow several times because he did not even fight Bellamy.
Really? The entire CP9 seemed unbeatable by a mile. Luffy and Zoro looked like children, especially in front of Lucci. Luffy could attack with
his pre-gear strongest attacks, the same attack that beat Crocodile in the end, but Lucci stood there like it was nothing, a good parallel to Luffy using pre-G4 attacks against DD, maybe not even that since some of Luffy´s attacks in this arc actually connected compared to fight against Lucci before Enies Lobby.
This parallels very well the scene in which Luffy gets attacked by both DD and his doll. And unlike this arc, it was not even only Lucci who seemed that much superior, as seen
here, or
this, i would be really surprised if this does not speak about absolute superiority here. Heck, Sanji looked better against DD than Luffy and Zoro did against the guys of CP9. At least DD had to block the attack, Lucci just stood there like it´s nothing.
DD owned Law after he fought and used his abilities against an Admiral and DD, right after he told us that he runs out of stamina pretty quickly, no this does not really make DD that superior.
Again, where is this insane amount of damage? We only see Law´s final attack really connect and right after DD stands up like it was nothing. Of course you are free to interpret it like you want but i see no reason to think that it hindered him immensely from fighting, nor is there any panel in which it seems that way. We know for example that if that´s the case, Oda does actually include it, like Sanji vs Vergo for example in which the former was his leg injured and you see while the fight goes on that it hinders him. An an insane amount of attrition where DD took an insane amount of damage? Where does this happen in the manga exactly? 75% of the arc DD sat in his seat waiting for opponents to show up while Luffy fought through the entire island to get there, so i do not see it to be honest.
And my previous statement still stands, DD literally had no chance against G4, whether it was power, speed (he could not even react to Luffy attacking him from a mile away as seen
hereor defense (DD more or less attacked him with the
same attack he used to cut off Law´s arm but he could not even damage Luffy with that. So yeah, DD is inferior in almost any way when Luffy uses G4. I have to correct my previous statement though, it was not only Vergo vs Tashigi but like seen above, Zoro could do nothing against CP9 with his sword either, at least in the initial fight.
Nevertheless, answering the hypothetical is impossible to do in this constellation, sure, it could be that if DD had been completely "fresh" so to speak, he could have fared much better against Luffy´s G4, to the extent that Luffy would run out of Haki and DD could beat/kill him. I could also make the opposite assumption though, that if Luffy had not used Haki, including Haoushoku, in the tournament where he had a low-mid difficulty fight against Chinjao, after that against Pika´s statue with Grizzly Magnum, then against "indestructible" Toy Soldiers, then against Bellamy where he took several hits, his Haki could have sufficed until DD was beaten.
The only difference in my view to the situation with Lucci is that Luffy needed G2 and partly G3 to even get to fight against Lucci, and it was a more or less equal and balanced fight. Against DD though, Luffy completely overwhelmed him.
I am really looking forward to the fights with the Yonkou.
