User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 946: Luffy's Next Big Step/@comment-24287735-20190621094331

Pretty much that "easy beating" scene was just to scale. Just imagine if Queen and Big Mom were on equal footing like Luffy vs Katakuri from the previous arc. Nah, I'll rest that part for now because I'm pretty sure Oda's gonna save it for later. This is just a minor blast that will wake up the ultimate dragon of this arc (aka the "Climax").