How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

Gear 4 gives Luffy an insane power boost, but like Gear 2 and Gear 3 before it, it comes at a heavy price for use.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

It uses up a lot of energy, making Luffy incredibly feeble as soon as he stops using it, regardless for however long he’s used it. So even after using a single attack, like he did against Big Mom (Kong Gun) and Cracker (Cannonball), simply deactivating the form causes him to immediately start eating through energy at such a rate that he quickly became hungry after having eaten as much biscuits as he could fit in his stomach, which we all know of Luffy, to be a hell of a lot. Now he does still have enough energy left to run and use his G2 and G3 attacks, but in a weakened state, almost like he’s exposed to Sea Stone.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

It also uses up a lot of Haki. To maintain the form, Luffy has to use haki almost all over his body to shape and control his elasticity, in so doing resulting in him having only a limited window of time to fight within before his haki runs out – 2 hours at most so far – and forcing him to run for 10 minutes, until it replenishes.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

These limitations will need to be overcome for Luffy to really get stronger, meaning we need to see Luffy develop a way to fight that allows him to remove these vulnerabilities.

Katakuri showed us that he had the ability to increase and decrease the density of his Mochi, via Block Mochi and Flowing Mochi, to make his arms harder and strengthen his attacks, as well as to make his body more fluid and malleable to dodge and maneuver freely.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

This kind of ability would allow Luffy to substitute his use of haki all over and instead change the density of his body parts to achieve the same thing, thus significantly increasing the length of time he can fight with Gear 4. But it would also increase the control he has over his body, as well as the strength of his attacks. He’d be able to transition from being almost as viscus as latex to as tough as vulcanised rubber, leading to a boost in his attack power just as Katakuri gained with his Block Mochi attacks. This is something that Luffy could definitely gain through awakening.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

Awakening could potentially also reduce Luffy’s energy use in Gear 4. By giving him more control over his body functions, his use of Gear 4 would be more efficient, although I could see Gear 4 being considered too powerful to allow it to remove all limitations, ergo I can see Oda deciding to keep the cost of using it high to some degree.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

Another thing Luffy now needs to enhance is his Armament Haki. We’ve seen him honing his Observation against Katakuri to reach the advanced stage and awaken Future Sight, and while he didn’t completely achieve the ability in the end, he developed enough of it to build it to completion with a bit more practice. But now he needs to attain advanced Armament Haki, which, if Observation Haki was any indication, should make basic Armament Haki barely effective against it.

How Luffy Will Overcome Gear 4 Weakness

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