User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 885: The Whipping Boy's Nut Job/@comment-24850639-20171110175539/@comment-120.28.47.154-20171113031228

@HanataSanchou

I agree on most of the things you said except the way you've put the situation of Luffy's initial escape (that Kat should have predicted Luffy was gonna run away).

I think how Oda wrote the scene made sense so far as how Kat's predictions usually work. He sees a future, then acts upon it to change it or do his "now-say-this" shit. Either way, most of the time, the future he sees is changed. It's not that he's always seeing five seconds ahead in his vision. So, in the scene, he sees Luffy deflating because of the time limit of G4. He acts upon it, mocking Luffy's words by stating that Luffy will wilt soon. The future then changes because of Kat's action. He could've seen Luffy flying away and finding Brulee but he just (for some reason) can't catch up to Luffy. The moment Kat said that Luffy will wilt was the pivotal point in the fight He did not have one critical information: G4's time limit. Plot armor, I guess.