@Dranza:
He doesn't need to state the CD thing because he is well aware that the higher ups of the world government know about him, it's safe to assume Fuji is well informed hence his relatively reserved approach with Doffy. So if Gear fourth was used right off the bat, let's say for arguments sake and then Doffy does cope better with it, how exactly do you propose he would cope with it? He's already stated that gear second's speed is fast enough that it is enabling Luffy to tag him but the force wasn't enough that it merely tickled him. So how is he going to deal with not only getting tagged with gear fourth but also having to deal with incredible force behind the punches? Face it Doffy has already been shown to use armament haki against fourth's attacks so he can't exactly "cope better" by resorting to that or do you think he'll tense his body harder thus making his armament haki stronger? Lol not to mention that this fight was only ever going to go one way because Luffy still has gear fifth if the desperation called for it (which it isn't)
Well really, for all we know, weakening someone could also weaken their Haki resistance, reducing more damage than it could. That's speculation.
Doflamingo was saying Luffy had the speed after he was weakened as well, before that Luffy couldn't do anything and had already been outclassed beforehand.
You probably don't see the difference because Doflamingo was still spanking Luffy. You're judging gear 4 based off the chapter with the title "gear 4" which was created to showcase gear 4. Of course it's not going to show the gears drawbacks, and show Doflamingo easily countering it, it would give no one any hope that Luffy cannot defeat Doflamingo and make Gear 4 look shit.
Doflamingo who is at the brink of death, only living because his organs are being patched up was still beating up Luffy who was earnestly trying hard.
Doflamingo has been coasting this entire arc. He has been toying with Luffy thus far using his brute force. Now he's going to showcase his own power. Trust me, even though Luffy has the power in his attacks now, Doflamingo will exploit his weaknesses quickly. Even though he'll lose, he's not getting stomped.
To be fair as well, we've never seen a full strength all out Doflamingo, we will only see his supposedly weakened self.
A lot of people were confident that Luffy would defeat Doflamingo with his current gears with high diff. No, Oda thinks Luffy requires Gear 4 to still take on Doflamingo all the surprise assaults.
All out Gear 4 Luffy = Gamma Knifed/Countershocked Doffy.
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@Dranza:
You're absolutely right, he's so up his own butt he can't see the light of day. He boldly claimed that Luffy wouldn't even make it out alive from the arena, I think they call him the joker because he's inadvertently funny with the things he says. Which confuses me because he knows of Luffy's feats with crocodile, the war and what have you and earlier on in the arc he advises caution and not underestimate Luffy heck he is even TOLD by Law several times that the Strawhats perform miracles wherever they go yet he wants to act like he can kill anything that moves just because he's been brainwashed by four fools who raised him on a pedestal and repeatedly referred to him as King. He's such a good a villain but he's such a retard at the same time, he fell for the same body swap trick twice, once with red hawk and then with gamma knife. He knows not to undermine Law's intelligence yet he repeatedly does?
Body swap trick twice? Doflamingo didn't expect a supposedly dead Law to exchange with Luffy.
Luffy switched out with Sabo. If Luffy after winning the Mera Mera if he had, would have been toyified afterwards, i mean, he was ALMOST done along with Law by sugar at the palace thanks to Usopp AGAIN. Sabo took the Mera Mera and blew the whole place up also thanks to Usopp.
You can't say it was stupid by him.
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@lugeasilver:
I think Doflamingo is just being really arrogant. He probably isn't that familiar with Fujitora's abilities and thinks little of him as he hasn't seen him do much of anything. Hell, Doflamingo thought that his crew+him would roflstomp the strawhats and the rest of the people on Dressrosa but he was clearly wrong about that too. Just because someone is confidant/arrogant doesn't mean their words have any weight or meaning to him. Untill I see Doflamingo start slapping admirals out the way I find it literally laughable to think he could take any of them. Even on his best day.
He calls him a "Freaking beast".
But to be fair, he's not familiar with his powers. But it's nothing no one can't adjust to. Otherwise Fujitora would be to hax pushing everyone away.