Only if the strategy was to beat her up. However, their objective was still to make her unconscious and there was no better way to do that than just planting the grape in her grape basket and waiting till she eats it, especially since that's what they initially expected and prepared themselves to do. Everything else was a Plan B.
1) Yeah, that´s an inconsistency
Hell, real world kids have a bit of a growth spurt in those 4 years.
Either he was not passed out completely or it´s his DF mastery
Caesar's gas body gives him unlimited acces to painkillers without side effects probably.
Just because he's a scientist doesn't mean he can't be strong, Sanji is just a cook and he's a part of the monster-trio.
How do you know he doesn't train to master his Devil Fruit in his spare time? All those techniques he used to try and take Luffy's life didn't come from nowhere. Secondly what you have mentioned is not a plot hole.
But the string DD couldn't use haoshoku no haki and yet he did against the random marines.
He never used CoC on his strings; CoC isn't something physically applicable; he just knocked them out and used his strings on the others.
Im afraid you misunderstood my point but here it goes:
Why not ask why he can use those attacks in the first place?
