@dinty:
There's a high possibility of that, since I sometimes find your logic hard to follow
(I'm not saying that as an insult, by the way, I'm just saying that as a statement).
Not especially. If everything that he needed to know about the situation was revealed to him using just a single "strong enough" attack, then it wasn't a waste of time, even if it wasn't his strongest move. Why waste energy on an ultimate attack just to find out the same info he could have found out on a "strong enough" attack? He wanted to know how big the gap was between himself and WB. He made a move, it was countered by someone other than WB, and WB seemed unimpressed with him.
That's enough to tell Mihawk the following:
(a) he won't be fighting WB, no matter how strong of an attack he uses, because someone is always going to step in and defend WB against him – so even if he seriously tries to find out how big the gap is, he won't be able to. Not until he defeats all of WB's underlings first, which isn't going to happen. Or at least not then, and not by him.
(b) WB doesn't even consider Mihawk a big enough threat to say: "stand aside, Jozu, Marco, etc ... I'll handle Mihawk by myself". If WB won't engage him in a fight, he will never know how big the gap is between them. He can't know the gap by fighting an underling.
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(c) Fate, for the time being, seems to be favoring WB. And since Fate seems to be favoring WB, it would be foolish of Mihawk (since he is such a big believer in Fate) to try to push his luck by fighting WB now. Someone else will have to try to topple WB now. Someone else who is currently being favored by fate. And someone else most likely will ...
Anyways, I've said my bit, you've said your bit, and I can foresee this just going round and round in circles for the next two weeks, so we'll call a cease-fire, and let the rest of AP decide what they want to decide about the subject on their own.
Once again I never said he should use his ultimate attack to initially face WB. Why do you keep saying that? or bringing it up as if it refutes ANYTHING I've said? Also I don't even know what you're talking about with WB's reaction. He's an arrogant fuck(rightfully so) why he react to an attack that didn't even reach him? He didn't with Croc either.
All you've done in this post is expand on what I've already said was stupid.
If unnamed attacks are fodder you don't seriously use them in battle to gauge fighting capability. WB's the strongest man in the world not a pirate with potential that's strength is being tested.
Basically he came soft.
(a) doesn't make sense. What kind of logic is it to say if he sent his strongest attack "someone" would intercept it anyway? The fact that he sent a fodder attack should let him no he should've sent a stronger one to begin with i.e. stupid move.
(b) is irrelevant. If Mihawk wants to know the gap HE should DO IT. Not take WB's arrogance as some sign that he is not worthy and should go off cutting up fodder pirates. This option has nothing to do with the gap in strength just ego.
I swear lol. Mihawk says a few things about fate and now he's guiding every action in his life by "Lets not push things. It'll happen when it happens" This also doesn't have anything to do with what I'm talking about. He wanted to find out the gap in power he should've came with harder shit. If you're right and he's thinking this he's just letting fate turn him in to a pussy. "My attack was intercepted, it wasn't meant to be"