@Pipio:
Compared to the enemies he's fought against? men/boys his age which is like 16 or 17 wouldn't be able to get beaten to a pulp by DF users and still have the strength to form a battle plan or fight back. I'm not saying Usopp can lift things like zoro, luffy, or franky but he has a strong body and can take quite a bit of damage.
But fact is the straw hats are going into the new world. If any of them were even ready to sail into the New world they would have left. None of them were ready and if Usopp doesn't become a stronger character he won't be any use at all.
Childish maybe nice and good for a laugh but i'm sure some new world captains won't care if hes using a slingshot so he can hold onto his childhood. I mean as Usopp was before becoming totally fat i doubt he could have taken out Arlong which gave luffy a 30mill bounty.
Usopp needs an overhaul. If you agree with me or not about how his fighting style should be, i think most can agree he didn't live up to his 30million bounty.
Like kid said, those without resolve should never venture to the new world.
It's debatable I suppose, but I would suggest that Usopp's endurance has a whole lot more to do with his willpower than having a strong body. He fights through the pain when other people might give up, he doesn't shrug off powerful blows without being seriously wounded like the close range physical fighters in this series do.
As for living up to his 30 million bounty, that was for burning the world government flag and thus the only thing Sogeking has to do to live up to it is be a thorn in the side of the WG. As has been stated countless times, bounties don't necessarily have to have anything to do with combat. Robin's 80 million bounty is the same as both Hancock and Crocodile when they were made Shichibukai, has she been "living up to" that?
Pre-timeskip Usopp should not have been able to beat Arlong, I'm not even sure that he should be able to post TS. Just because Arlong came early in the series does not mean that he is weak. He was a member of the Sunny Pirates, a crew that was powerful enough to have Jinbei ranked lower than captain. Whatever rank Arlong held in the crew, he was important enough to attract his own crew from the remnants when the Sunny Pirates broke up.
As for Cymelion's idea that upgraded Usopp could come out at early Sanji level, I don't think that will happen. This time skip period is to make the strawhats better at what they already do. Zoro will be a better swordsman, Nami will manipulate the weather more easily, and Usopp will be a better trickster sniper. He's not going to suddenly become a Benn Beckman type, carrying around a rifle but just as apt to use physical strength to beat the crap out of people.