User blog:Avery D. North/Stalemate. Luffy meets his match...

Tonight I am here to talk about something that I personally hope the fans of OP will never be subject to. I am of course referring to Luffy ever meeting up with an enemy who fighting ability is equal to his. So far by my count we have seen 3 examples of such battles, Kuzan vs Sakazuki, Jinbe vs Ace, and more recently Jack vs Nekomamushi & Inuarashi. As epic and awesome as these fights may seem I'm sure after a day a battle may seem a bit lackluster and boring, which is why all so far have been seen in pieces as part of flashbacks. Also the shortest of these battles has been 5 days which is just insane. We have experienced battles much shorter that have started to lag a bit so I'm sure we would all be praying for an advantage one way or another. But luckily I doubt that Oda would subject us to such a real time battle. In fact it seems as if Luffy's abilities have constantly evolved in ways to avoid such a confrontation. So far each Gear has had some sort of limit and are used more like a temporary boost that needs rest of some sort more than a drawn on ability, similar to Goku's kaio-ken.