@Seafarer33:
Still the fact remains, he landed alone in the middle of several Supernovas and came out victorious. Even if they put up a fight, even if it turns out that this was made possible by one or more crews turning against the other guys - did they maybe think that the odds were against them despite how outnumbered he was ? Not to mention a guy like Jack has enough respect (or fear) to consider him his captain. Cue all the narrator hype about being the strongest pirate alive, unkillable and so on. There is definitely more to his strength than just sending two random goons through the roof…
@Screwtape:
Introduction of Kaido's strength. It was simply hype for Kaido. He owns novas and even calls them "little pirate games," then makes fun of them beating a few Shichibukai. It was all to demonstrate Kaido's dominance. Wasn't for the novas.
You seem to misunderstand my point. I'm not trying to say "Kaido's not so great!", him taking out at least one of the Supernovas and putting at least one more into subservience, with him thinking little of them after the fact, is great! What is bothersome is that people are comparing his acitons against the alliance to Big Mom's actions currently as though they're the same when they're really not. We never saw the fight with him against the Supernovas, so we can't say that Big Mom's initial attacks being met by the alliance are weak compared to Kaido's when we never saw Kaido's actions in the first place. All we saw of Kaido's battle was the result. We can't imagine what the battle was like and then hold Big Mom up to our imaginary standards. Her battle against the SH's is far from over, and we can't compare her initial attacks to Kid lying in a cell because those are not the same situations.
@Seafarer33:
Not saying Big Mom's weak or anything, though. I wonder, however, if she ever gets serious at all. The way she fights at the moment seems just as carefree and childish as the rest of her character - she throws tantrums of lightning and fire, swings wildly like an angered gorilla…Hell, she even climbs castles and punches walls down. What is she, King Kong ? Lots of damage if it connects, yet doesn't feel anywhere as threatening as Doflamingo's focused attacks did. He landed quite a few hits on Luffy; so did Cracker; Mama has yet to, which I find hard to buy. She certainly doesn't pull her punches, but it's like she's not trying very hard either. Maybe she never needed to - with her strength, one hit is all it takes to topple most enemies. I'm wondering if Oda has any intention of showing her get any more serious than this.
Of course those are going to be different scenarios - Luffy took those hits from Cracker and Doflamingo when he was locked in combat with them, in contrast to now when he's been running circles around Big Mom before finally blocking her attack in this chapter. And he's started off against both Doflamingo and Cracker with some similar blocks - blocking Doflamingo's foot from stomping Law, and blocking Cracker's sword from hitting Pound. It's the exact same thing that happened here, yet people are crying out that Big Mom is a joke in battle after just this traditional initial exchange. Once Big Mom fights with focused attacks as the fight progresses, then we'll see stuff akin to what we saw from Doffy and Cracker.