User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 885: The Whipping Boy's Nut Job/@comment-24850639-20171110175539

I'm outraged that Luffy is running away during a fight due to the limitations of his gears, yet again. I'm on record multiple times now stating my preference that Luffy get his ass kicked around while he has to wait for his powers to recharge instead of getting saved by plot armor. I feel like he played this perfectly during the Rob Lucci fight, and Lucci wasn't any less capable of killing Luffy in those recharging moments than Doffy or especially Katakuri are. Luffy's troll face when he saw Brulee almost made me spit out my drink, but back to my outrage! I once saw someone say that Oda uses Kenbunshoku haki as a convenient plot device, and I'm feeling a little inclined to get behind this viewpoint lately. Katakuri demonstrated the ability to predict Luffy's dialogue, so he should have been able to predict him saying he was gonna run away. It's also hard for me to buy him not predicting Luffy trying to jump through a mirror, but I'll digress. In any case, he can't always get the opportunity to run away and recharge his haki, so Oda is going to need to find a way around this limitation that's believable in however many days after this it will be that he faces Kaido. He's made it seem at least, as if G4 is the best Luffy's got, so things are looking pretty grim without some insane power boost.

I can appreciate him calling himself out in a way via Katakuri's "That idiot!" comment, and Luffy just getting transported to a bigger shit show with Big Mom, just hope the plot armor no jutsu is a little more palatable. There's already the glaring hole of what's different between now and Doflamingo that allowed him to run and use his devil fruit abilities after Gear 4. There's also the fact that Brulee seemed to match him combat wise when she turned into him, so can he really keep her captive in his weakened state?

Excited to see the best laid plans of mice and men go awry with the replacement cake. Or rather I should say I'm hopeful, because Sanji not getting any redemption combat-wise will prompt further outrage. I will also be very happy if this turns into a mini-war at the border between that fleet of Big Mom ships, Germa, the Sun Pirates,  & Firetank Pirates.