User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 879: Mirror Battle in Mirro-World/@comment-24850639-20170922150027/@comment-24850639-20170924144544

Ok I need to make a note here about Nami's "help", because the degree to which I overlooked Luffy's fighting genius in the Cracker battle is just staggering to me. First of all, Cracker NEVER overpowered Luffy in Gear 4th. Being able to cut into Luffy's arm doesn't prove the he outclasses Luffy in strength by any means. The anime added quite a few scenes of him matching a basic punch or two with Pretzel, but in the manga he never actually matched the strength of any kind of named attack from Luffy. He stated himself that he doesn't like pain, so his strategy was to throw countless biscuit soldiers at Luffy  while he tried to move in for the killing blow. He did this several times, and Luffy recognized that would be his method since he felt so overconfident in his ability to produce biscuit soldiers. Luffy's ultimate strategem relied on him taking advantage of Cracker's kill strike to send him flying through his hardened soldiers (he commented earlier it was the hardest buso haki he'd come accross). The G4 version of Gomu Gomu No Fuusen was the perfect way to use his confidence against him, and I have zero doubt that he didn't take into account that his opponent was made of food. He called it Tankman: Full Version, which by definition implies that there is regular version of it. The instant Cracker got one real attack from G4 to his regular body he was done. So I'm personally no longer standing by the assessment that Luffy "barely scraped by" in that fight. Controversial as it my be, I'm gonna go ahead and say that Luffy could have found a way to win that fight without Nami's help. I'm more content with putting her support in helping enhancing Luffy's capabilities on her resume for the this arc than having her just stand there and make sure the homies didn't interfere. Put that in your pipes and smoke it! Like I am right now....wait what