@sabinis:
He is just more experienced and older. Keeping cool head during a fight even in situation that he is in atm.
If difference was so big then Luffy would not be able to land Eagle Bazooka or other attacks, Doflamingo instead of running away would simply catch and counter Luffys attack like Hawk Gattling.
Luffy feels slightly faster than Doflamingo but bit behind him when it comes to firepower(Elephant Gattling could possibly break spiders net but still it feels like Luffy isnt throwing into the fight all that he has - proof of it being gear 4th being revealed at end of chapter).
I have a feeling that Doflamingo is spreading his invisible string trap during current fight with Luffy, after Trebol blown himself up.
He will surely try to stop Luffy with it before their fight will end after he starts to get pushed back by Luffy.
Well if we are comparing to real life spiders web even, those are insanely powerful and can stop big things.
I don't believe Luffy could break through it. Luffy came in heated, I'm sure he put a lot into that.
Catching Luffys gattling? I mean he's tanked a normal jet one. Doflamingo dodging out of that and countering was really impressive.
If you saw Doflamingos first time against eagle bazooka, he went straight through the attack and just went to Luffy.
Luffy seems to be trying his earnest but doesn't seem enough. Since Dofla has taken the Gamma knife he's been taking more hits.
A lot of people thought Luffy would defeat Flamingo in his current self without a new gear. This is Luffys last resource in order to beat him. Where that stands in terms of power, we don't know yet.
Every hit this chapter Doflamingo attempted, he got in. Every counter got in. Luffy didn't manage to dodge anything.
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@CrazyMerlyn:
Two chapters ago people were saying the same thing for Overheat.
The battle has hardy begun.
And before you say anything about Jozu, his strength was established. He was a commander in a Yonko crew. You don't go easy on such opponents.
Luffy on the other hand has not shown great strength to Doffy. He himself pointed out how Luffy ain't strong enough.
Doffy is currently playing with him. As soon as he gets his ass handed to him in gear 4, we would be seeing Luffy try n escape Doffy's string trap(possibly by CoC).
Doflamingo so far in this fight hasn't been as Dependant on his devil fruit. He's been using his own body power to fight luffy whilst some string abilities used to supplement combos.
It has hardly begun. I agree. I hope that Luffys gear 4 will make Doflas devil fruit usage increase. After seeing break white, i reallya want to see what he can do.
And really, the context of the jozu fight was to stop Jozu and talk to Crocodile. Jozu wasn't really anything there, just a pig in the middle.