User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 898: No One Expects the Germa Inquisition/@comment-28995593-20180316082336/@comment-24850639-20180316152632

Ok first of all, Nami fought Kalifa, which was BIG for her character, and Robin spent most of that arc locked up in handcuffs at Spandam's mercy. When she did get free she put the hurt on him immediately and began helping the Straw Hats out. But more importantly, Nami and Robin aren't portrayed as these characters that are going to be the main fighters of the crew. Nami is a support character, so any fight moments she gets are always big. Robin I think is being underutilized given what we know of her actual ability, but that's a different discussion. Sanji is one of three strongest members of the crew, and Oda hammered that home constantly pre-timeskip. Ever since the time-skip, Sanji's combat feats have been drastically overshadowed by Luffy and Zoro, which was never Oda's style before. He made it a legitimate debate that Sanji and Zoro's combat strength were comparable, and it seems like he's just thrown that out the window. Being a character that needs help doesn't mean that they can't be allowed to shine as well. Needing help doesn't mean that he deserves to be outshined by his siblings yet again, when Oda has driven it home that Sanji is the better man because of his deeds. Sure, you can argue that Oda never said this arc was gonna be big for Sanji combat wise, but that's not the same as making him almost look weak. And for this portion of the story, we didn't even need a combat feat! We just wanted to see Sanji do something awesome when it came to saving Luffy! Use his haki to dodge gunfire or certain attacks in a super awesome way as they escaped, use his speed to do something so fast that even superior haki users could detect.....SOMETHING! Even his big promise this chapter was something that his brother had to assist! As Kaido pointed out, maybe there's still room for him to do something, but he's definitely not fighting anyone until Luffy is safe.