Question What if... Luffy vs Hawkins??

[slavkovski]

Based on what we know about luffy and Hawkins ability & fighting styles.. does luff doesnt have a chances in defeating the likes of Hawkins?
I mean.. if u want to defeat hawkins you have to kill him 10 times... but... luffy as i remember never / cant kill anybody in fight.. but to defeat hawkins you MUST kill him right? You cant just punch him and one of his straw voodoo dolls dies!
Just look when he cut parts of his hand to show law.. the doll doesnt die.

 

[nik87]

Based on what we know about luffy and Hawkins ability & fighting styles.. does luff doesnt have a chances in defeating the likes of Hawkins?
I mean.. if u want to defeat hawkins you have to kill him 10 times... but... luffy as i remember never / cant kill anybody in fight.. but to defeat hawkins you MUST kill him right? You cant just punch him and one of his straw voodoo dolls dies!
Just look when he cut parts of his hand to show law.. the doll doesnt die.

Cutting his arm slightly isnt lethal damage and thus a doll is not spent.
Getting hit by Kong Gun is probably lethal for Hawkins and he would use a doll for it, at least that's my guess.

 

[afromarco005]

Luffy isn't weak to nails like Zoro. He one shots Hawkins with red hawk or no gear pistol. Gear 4 is overkill imo.

 

[kkck]

Hawkins would definitely be a particularly troublesome enemy for luffy given how Hawkins remorselessly uses people around him. That said, I don't think hawkins is actually as strong as luffy so he probably does have some alternatives. Luffy can probably just punch hawkins hard enough that he flies off into the distance when using gear 4.

 

[Admiral Teach]

With his now advancing CoO, I could see Luffy figuring out where the dolls are and removing them somehow, and then take Hawkins out. Or perhaps somehow deal enough damage to expend the dolls without killing the people they are tied to. It's a pickle, this one. Hawkins' powers are hax for a reason. Their very nature puts him at an immediate and cruel advantage.

It's one reason why I want Zoro to be the last "man" Hawkins mentions to Law. Because it seems to me that Hawkins' dolls expend themselves based on how much it would take to kill him, not his victim. Zoro can tank far, far more damage than Hawkins I don't doubt. And at the very worst Zoro could fight Hawkins and just slice him up with just enough lethality to not kill himself but end Hawkins as a threat.

Or who knows? Maybe Oda's decided to get rid of Law's crew. He has too many characters at this point. If only he were willing to actually kill people in his manga, we could see an end to some of the excess population.

 

[McNuss]

Luffy isn't weak to nails like Zoro. He one shots Hawkins with red hawk or no gear pistol. Gear 4 is overkill imo.

Shouldn't Luffy be even weaker to nails? He has no swords to block them.

 

[TitaniumOxide]

Luffy will be superior to any nails that Hawkins can throw at him. Especially now with the advanced CoA. Hawkins may be hax in his powers but Luffy is too skillful to lose. Sure Luffy don't like killing and thus he doesn't use stronger attacks unless he needs to or unless the percieved threat is great enough.

Again, he doesn't seem to kill. But in shonen a lot of times they use kill and knocked out in symmetry. I believe Hawkin's powers doesn't require him to die to use up a doll, but rather how many times he is rendered unconcious as well as up to if not including death but being KOed is enough.

There can be one of three possible situations I can see.

1. Luffy fights Hawkins. Luffy doesn't really get his hocus pocus and laughs at him. Hawkins gets annoyed and attacks...Luffy dodges and uses gatling something and takes out all his lives at once (lol) and boom he is down. Luffy wins, oblivious of the other people he hurt. Cmon tons of casualties have occured because of Luffy's obliviousness so this is quite possible.

2. Luffy learns of Hawkin's powers and do not want any of his crew or whoever else to get hurt, he uses some of his skills to get them to safety and fights Hawkins after taking damage from saving the innocently bounded "dolls" first. In my mind I see him just grabbing people and throwing them out of Hawkins' spell's range, baka Luffy style.

3. Luffy runs away because of whatever reason. Like the first time they met.

Notice in none of the scenarios, Luffy loses. I just don't see it. Luffy can and will tank anything Hawkins throws at him, even death threats linking his nakamas to the dolls lol. Seriously, I lean more towards scenario 1 where Luffy doesn't understand and just kicks his ass like normal lol.
Hawkins: Wait! Don't you get it? Law will be really hurt if you hit me again!
Luffy: What? Where is Law? ??? I don't see him...*launches another hit at Hawkin's face*

Actually I think Sanji AND Zoro can do the same at this point. Sure Zoro got hurt. So what? These 3 gets hurt All the time. Sanji got kind of fucked up by judge and after that all he got was some bandages from his sister. The point is these guys gets hurt on the regular that scene wasn't a big deal to me. Hawkins just need to be figured out and once his mystery is gone, he probably has a weaker physical being.

 

[Zehahaha]

Gear 4 would wipe out Hawkins
Remember, when he got kicked by Kizaru, the guys still received damage/died. All Luffy needs to do is to punch him until his doll bullshit are over

 

[Hannibal Psyche]

Hawkins would be defeated, no questions asked there.

Hawkins doesn't protect himself when he fights because he has voodoo dolls to take the damage in his place.

It's only likely he gets evasive and dodges attacks only when he no longer has voodoo dolls.

That aside, he probably wouldn't be able to hit Luffy given that Luffy uses Future Sight. Since WCI, Luffy has only been hit by Kaido and he's been evading attacks from everyone with comical ease. I doubt Hawkins would be able to engage with Luffy. I doubt any of the Supernova are capable of taking on Luffy at this point given that he's beaten opponents far beyond their levels.