User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 842: I Came in Like a Cannonball/@comment-31.24.227.55-20161005234305/@comment-24850639-20161006172543

I had the same reaction, like WTF. But the more I analyze the fight, the more it ultimately made sense. We saw how easily Luffy could dispatch a biscuit solder with Kong Gun, and Cracker simply made the mistake of thinking that was all Luffy had to offer, because he needed to power up a little to seemingly beat it. The main question all along, was could Cracker take Luffy in a 1-on-1. In a somewhat cryptic way, we found out early that the answer was no. Cracker admitted that he despised pain, which is an absolute guarantee in a fight with Luffy, even if he won. So instead he thought he could overwhelm Luffy with the soldiers, while he just maneuvered around for the killshot. He had no way of predicting that Nami could soften them with rain, or that of all things, Luffy would simply eat them. Even with this unpredicactable circumstance, he was still confident in his ability to produce infinitely, and that such was not the case with Luffy's appetite. That became the REAL battle, a battle of wills. It made perfect sense that after 11 HOURS, Cracker would be exacerbated with trying the same strategy, and we've always known how much Luffy could eat.

I don't know if Tankman was a pre-meditated move or something that he made up on the spot, but either way he knew that Cracker would underestimate/misjudge it's power because of its appearance, just like Doffy did. He knew from experience that the biscuit soldiers had some of the strongest buso haki he'd ever faced, so sending someone through several of them was probably gonna hurt quite a bit. I definitely didn't see this ending with one move, I'm assuming Luffy must have doubled or even tripled the force of the blow when he reflected it, imagine a Gomu Gomu No Fuusen on crack (like all his haki-enhanced moves). At the end of the day I still wanted a more serious fight with all the trash Cracker talked about how Luffy wasn't ready for the New World, but you gotta admit that this strategy was absolute genius on Luffy's part, like usual.