User blog comment:Nobody700/The worst in the best/@comment-24148870-20131218023905/@comment-24148870-20131218151230

Frankly, for this particular scenario, you are too unrealistic on your expectations. I know that One Piece is set in an unrealistic world, but it still follows a certain realistic logic.

Allow me to offer you some arguments.

First, in a skirmish, only fools go all out at the start - be it sports, debates, arguments and especially in battles where lives are at stake. This is called, “measuring stances” or “testing the waters”. I believe that we haven't seen the full fighting capacities of the captains.

Second, because the SH were obviously and seriously bereft in numbers, they decided to go all without the initial measuring stances. And considering that they had fought with a captain before (Smoker), they don’t need to test how strong their enemies were - they can gauge the possible strength.

Third, the captains were fighting without cohesion and teamwork; they didn't assess the fighting capabilities of their enemies and just fought it out individually.

Fourth, the SH fought together, extending help whenever one of their numbers was in quandary.

Fifth, the strawhats fought as a unit, the marines fought as if they were in brawl. The different mentality means a lot in a fight, if you have been in a brawl, you’ll get what I’m trying to say.

Logically speaking, if you look above arguments, it is very, very obvious that the battle would turn out the way it did.

But people adjust, people modify their actions. And had the battle progressed further, the captains would have adjusted and modified their tactics; and thus the SH would have been seriously overwhelmed and beaten.

The scenario you were thinking of is simply not feasible and as I said before, unrealistic. The SH don't have the luxury of fighting even a single extra second in any individual enemy, otherwise they would have been overwhelmed - they are after all, fighting against 200 high-ranked men. That is exactly why their individual battles where short and largely uneventful; and if I might add, lacking, for people like you.

I understand your frustrations, I really do. But this is one instance where a fan boy's need aint very beneficial for the story. Don’t worry though, the upcoming battle(s) will surely be epic and you can have your fill of the actions then.