User blog comment:Pandawarrior/Mutiny on the Bounty/@comment-10543621-20151206032849/@comment-24850639-20151207210610

I'm among the minds that so far consider him "lame". Not weak, undeserving of his bounty, or boring, I'm just very underwhelmed so far. I'm basing this off of what we so far know to be FACT, not just speculation that you can infer from the past few chapters. For example, I don't think he got "shown to" by Inu and Neko. I think they both caught him off guard, and he wasn't expecting either of them to be as strong as they were. But they weren't FIGHTS. They were skirmishes at best, and skirmishes mean asbsolutely nothing. It isn't fair to say Neko and Inu are just AS STRONG as Jack, they haven't actually fought for a significant amount of time for us to observe. Also, lets not forget something equally important that people haven't seemed to realize: Jack's DF is a WOOLY MAMMOTH. Due to its size, a mammoth isn't exactly the most suited for hand-to-hand combat. It doesn't have fingers or opposable thumbs, and spends 99.9% of its time on all fours. Jack more than likely uses his Zoan form mostly when he needs to cause large-scale destruction, or move something that his human form probably wouldn't allow him to. So again, I'm not basing this on what we've observed SO FAR. But here are the facts:

1) The Gifters & Pleasures are absolutely getting their asses handed to them, and they kinda were as well BEFORE the Muskateers and Guardians showed up. I can't respect a wack crew. As their leader, by default you lose cool points. Doflamingo is one of my favorite villains of all time, but a part of his coolness dies everytime one of his Senior Execs open their mouth.

2) Jack used Caesar's weapon to turn the tide in his favor. A big part of badassery to me is strength and fighting ability. When you dont need a weapon, or special ace up your sleeve for people to KNOW not to fuck with you. The way Jack's been described up til now, and ESPECIALLY now with the revelation of this bounty, Jack was the kind of person where I'd expect their PRESENCE ALONE to turn the tide of battle. As the main villian for an arc this far down the storyline, thats the kind of antagonist you have to be. As of now all the evidence points to him using this weapon as a means to control a battlefield that he couldn't with his own ability. I don't care how strong the mink are honestly, I just can't respect that when a week later, you feel bold enough to go after a Marine Admiral and former Fleet Admiral, which didn't work out for him either.

3.) He wasn't even fighting the Minks at full strength; at any given moment he's only fighting HALF of the total fighting force of the country.

So again I'm not counting him out completely, he's probably gonna have some serious hand-to-hand combat skills in his human form, just very underwhelming so far. The badassery is not "on fleek" as the cool kids say.