I know the VIZ says something like "Mini Gear 4th", which could be interpreted as the name of the technique. The raws however say: "ちょっとギア4", which is pretty much what TCB translated it as: "a little Gear 4th". Also, if you're one of the two people waiting for it, I'll try to get my Dragon video out within 48 hours.
What about Sanji's possible upgrade, as he seems to have used Ifrit against the net without switching his eyebrows. This could mean either he always has his exoskeleton active and is his new base or his haki has ascended to the level of being able to use Ifrit without the help of his Exoskeleton.
When u said teachers like katakuri, doffy, and Rayleigh, u forgot about the og, rob lucci who though luffy how to use all his gears. As time goes on, more and more people will forget how important rob lucci was to the story and oda definitely destroyed whatever was left of him in the post timeskip
Luffy using Gear 4th in just his arms now reminds me of how after the Timeskip he can use Gear 3rd without the negative side effect of turning small afterwards.
I love this idea. We seem to forget Luffy fruit is a zoan so the gears are more like unrefined transformations. I think he’ll master his transformations like how chopper came back post time skip mastering his zoan transformations. It’s a breath of fresh air coz I don’t want him to go gear 5 all the time unless it’s against a top tier
Zoan fruits give you hybrid and full transformation they don’t let you only transform your arm this has nothing to do with a zoan transformation but it could have to do with him being able to do whatever he imagines
@@Brook-es5ctThat's not true actually! Marco is able to transform parts of his body without fully turning into a bird. Like when he only gives himself talons or only grows wings. So its probably a trait that some mythical zoans have.
So far on Elbaf, Luffy has entered gear five briefly and not been worn out after it. He threw one punch in the form, exited it and kept running from the sun god. On Egghead and Wano, he was rendered pretty much useless for a short time after it depleted. On top of the gear four stuff mentioned in this video, he's already getting upgrades in the first few chapters of Elbaf.
my thoughts on how that works is: luffy thinks he should be tired after using this new transformation Therefore, he does get tired But mixture of it no longer being new, or him believing he is able to do it better now He no longer causes himself to get tired Aka, the only reason he gets tired, is because he's being trapped by common sense saying he needs to be tired, which causes gear 5 logic to make him tired
luffy is not going all out there, it's not like everytime he finished using gear 5, he would get the side effect, he just loves that mode and he just use it to punch a snake. he now can freely enter that mode just as how a zoan user could transform to his beast mode I think. He enters that mode comically when he's saving bonney with jinbe and chopper.
I think the main reason he isnt transforming is simply to conserve energy. He can still use the forms to enhance his strength and defense but he has learned to use it in his arms or only one part of his body in order to by pass the energy drain, which is really smart. I would agree him achieving his awakening is allowing him to think more freely about how he can utilize and combine his attacks whole is base form in sense. But that is a fear ive had, is that his old forms will be akin to ssj3. It will still be there but rarely ever seen anymore...
to be fair, if the new thing is refered as "Mini gear 4th" its likely bc Gear 4 will still be used, quite frequentlu (or at least more than ssj3), it quite implies that is weaker than normal gear 4th but very versatile and easy to use to the point it drains no energy
You shouldn't think of it as losing the technique, rather evolving it for the future. Keep in mind, gear 4th is basically a combo of gear 2nd and 3rd alongside Haki.
However, this also means that when he does use the techniques his control would be incredibly better to the point where him switching gears and augmenting their strength with Advanced Haki and ACOC…He is def gonna be cementing his Yonkou bag starts of attacks.
True but I also think that now with gear 5 he’ll never need any gear 4th form since the main thing with them was either the body or speed but g5 surpasses both those aspects
My head cannon used to be that Gear 4th was already awakened/hybrid form since he seemed to be able to turn the air into rubber where his arm bounced, but it makes more sense that indeed he simply "imagined" his arm bouncing around and was therefore able to do it. Maybe the cooldown time of his gears was also just his imagination, where he (subconsciously) thought "such great power must have repercussions".
Great video. Since Elbaf is the place where the Legends of Nika originated, it would stand to reason that Luffy should take the time to gain better control of his Gear 5th form, and maybe take the chance to learn what his Devil Fruit really is. Who knows, perhaps he might encounter the Sun God just like how Naruto meets Kurama?
I imagine he'll get something similar to SSGB from Dragon Ball Super. Gear 5th would be a new "base" similar to how SS God was a new "base" for Goku and Vegeta. So, perhaps he uses an amped version of Gear 2nd (SSGB) while in Gear 5. Doing Jet Dawn Pistols or Jet Dawn Gatlings. This would also extend to Gear 4th eventually
I want Oda to do something like this Luffy is fighting the greatest opponent hes ever fought Gear 2nd!: steam begins rising and his speed increases supernaturally Gear 3rd!: gigant luffy, luffys entire body grows into that of a giant Gear 4th!: Snakeman! Luffy goes into an even faster snakeman form combined with gear second amd his damage increases drastically being in gigant luffy form Gear 5th!: Luffy is able to transform the world around him while retaining all previous power ups That to me seems the natural progression and the final version of his most powerful form. Hes used gears together before, but before it would usually be at a great detriment because of how unrefined it is. With him getting more and more powerful, the consequences he will face will be minimal, and the only ones with any real drawbacks are if he overuses gear 4th and gear 5th and runs out of haki. But with all that stacked he should be able to finish the fight before that happens.
I mean we've seen him go from being exhausted immensely from forms. and then after time and extreme battles in those forms. But the problem with "oh these forms cause great exhaustion!!" The forms definitely probably take more calories and fuel- but we have to remember WHO THE FUCK HE IS FIGHTING. In the katakuri fight, is it the forms that exhausted him? NO. IT WAS THE BADASS MOTHER FUCKER HE WAS FIGHTING. for some reason this fanbase conflates the first time he did it with lucci. but always forgets HES FIGHTING FUCKING LUCCI. XD If he used gear 2 on bellamy. Get this he wouldnt be that exhausted from either the form or him. I think its really funny how we understand haki only gets better when pushed to your limit in combat. Each big luffy fight per arc. Pushes him so far, that of Course when hes recovered hes in an immensely different place. He had never fought anyone like doaflamingo before. Its hard to tell if water 7 lucci can even compare to doflamingo. but if we also take in the fact these are gears right. What do really good drifters do? They shift, very fast between gears. Hypothetically as luffy gets better driving stick, hell eventually be able to upshift really fast and downshift really fast.
I love this because this means that we get to see G4 still even though we have G5 now since the latter still has the disadvantage of leaving Luffy in a tired state after use and the former can come in clutch in those situations.
This should've been expected. His transformation is now going to be G5. Bro was running everyone's fade during egghead with admiral fanboys constantly coping and seething to this day with the mental nerf BS. The mugiwara is officially a top tier now
This is the Luffy I was waiting for if Luffy has really mastered his fruit to that point. Rob Lucci is lucky he didn't get this Luffy. If Luffy can combine Bondman and Snake-Man without transforming, it's crazy, but as you said, this is the power that is needed to be a yonko of the sea. If he can also do it with gear 5th, just wow. Probably another year.
@@bonelesschickennuggets1868but in most long fights like against doflamingo and katakuri he pumped blood in his legs and had it flowing through his whole body.
After gaining gear 5, his true zoan transformation, his body is even more fluid and malleable making using his gear forms alot easier and at alot less stamina cost. By the end of the series he'll be able to do almost any form partially or full with no real stamina cost like most zoans
current luffy is stronger than kaido In wano, Kaido was in his prime, while luffy entered onigashima without his 2 major power ups that he had to learn trough getting spanked. At the end of wano, kaido was arguably still stronger than luffy and maybe egghead's luffy close the gap. Egghead's gear 5 is much stronger than the version kaido faced, for it has new techniques and at least 10 stronger named attacks, plus it's current speed to match the pika pika no mi. In wano it was his first time ever using it. However, currently Oda has given another HUGE upgrade to luffy : unlimited gear 4. The debate about luffy and kaido is now over. Even before wano's version of gear 5, on chapter 1037 kaido states : ITS been many years since someone was abble to go toe to toe with me, kaido goes on drunken mode + the second level of his híbrid form. At that time kaido was already recognizing luffy. Now we have unlimited gear 4 and a stronger gear 5. Goofy is now a whole ass island stronger than he was in Wano, so that means he could beat Kaido a thousand times over. We are not heading to the end of the series anymore, this IS the end of the series.
@@RimuruTempest-wl1ru literally makes no sense story wise. He beat Kaido and became a yonko two arcs ago now. If Oda had them fight 1v1 again somehow right now Luffy would win
@@robby_chunkno he wouldn’t 😂 until luffy can use gear 5th for long periods of time without instantly losing all energy, he’s not stronger than any of the previous yonko. 😭 (excluding Blackbeard) i don’t know what story you guys are reading but luffy defeated a heavily weakened kaido that had to go up against all odds just to then fight a full power gear 5th luffy that had healed up from the 3 fights beforehand. NOTHING in the narrative suggests luffys suddenly gotten some big unexplained power up over the course of egghead that would make him stronger than PRIME KAIDO because otherwise he would’ve murdered kizaru and fared much better against the gorosei then he did. it would make 0 narrative sense for luffy to randomly be stronger than someone who can literally mid diff him at full strength when we just got to elbaf (luffy isn’t beating shanks) and ZERO training has been done since then. luffy is really never gonna be on that real OG yonko tier of power until he can go gear 5th without actively crippling himself, because shanks literally just one shot kidd with 0 effort whatsoever, and luffy is NOT on that level yet. 😂
@@denzel8827I agree with u that kaido will outlast gear 5 and take the win but no one was able to do significant damage to kaido apart from luffy, u can argue zoro or if ur stretching it Yamato but luffy did 80+ percent
Those forms look too cool to be unused in the future, I think the opposite will happen and we'll see a combination of the fourth gear with the fifth :)
He's a crazy idea: Luffy never actually blew air into his finger... Think about it, why would he have or pierce a whole to blow thru it? It was just something he did to help concentrate himself (on controlling his fruit powers)
This is pretty consistent with the fact that once luffy unlocked a new form, such as gear 4. All previous forms lost all forms of weaknesses, so it would make sense that now that hes unlocked gear 5. Another form with a stamina issue, it would make sense that all his other forms don't have weaknesses anymore
I think his discovery of being able to do this was the “muscle” form in Wano. He didn’t need to use air to blow up his body to Gear 4 proportions, and in Egghead he continued to learn this with attacks like White Star Gun where he used it specifically on his arm. Gear 5 is starting to change how Luffy believes rubber to work. He realized he can do larger techniques without much effort or preparation
Theory: Larger creatures come to be due to high oxygen levels. giants on Elbaf could suggest a higher oxygen level on Elbaf? Why? I wouldn't know. But maybe this increase in oxgyen level (if true) is why Luffy is able to pump his body up more easily than he was able to before.
The first "gear 4th" attack was gear 3rd, the reason it was called that was because everyone was tripping. Note nami's dissapearing sword and Sanji and Zoro's attacks being different from what they said
I love Luffys' angled Gear 4 advancements. Instead of just spreading his muscles out, he's compressing them like how Katakuris' Power Mochi looked. It's also a nice contrast from Third Gear, which was a much more rounded compression of power. It does feel weird to have this, but he can always go back to the forms if Gear 5 ever becomes enough of a hassle, right?
also remember after luffy and zoro woke up in wano, even tho it was comedy, luffy used a conquerors infused snakeman to get food while zoro used conquerors infused ashura to eat and drink, Master Oda makes no mistakes.
When luffy makes his arms giant without inflating them, he's not really breaking any rules. Pick up a garbage bag. There's two main ways to inflate it, you can pinch the end shut, and blow into it, like a balloon, or you can hold it open and move it blow into it (or move it around quickly), to fill it up, Luffy basically went from the first method (try it, it's way less efficient) to the second (You can inflate the bag in a single breath).
Ive got the feeling,elbaf arc,will be another place for luffy to be training his CoH and voice of all things,or are we gonna get marine ford 2.0,saving garp in pirate fotress will show to us, how much luffy and his crew are grown in individual power, successfully saving garp and at the same gain more allies from the marines.
This reminds me of Goku's dismisal of the SSJ2 and SSJ3 forms, as he simply mastered Super Saiyan so much he stopped needing SSJ2 AND 3 to reach those powers
Monkey D. Luffy has some pretty insane powers as it is. To further combine his Gear Second, Gear Third, and Gear Fourth attacks and techniques, he could do something like this: Gear Fifth (hypothetical): He could utilize the speed and blood flow increase from Gear Second, the size and power from Gear Third, and the elasticity and strength from Gear Fourth simultaneously. Imagine him initiating a battle with Gear Second's speed and agility, quickly switching to Gear Third's colossal strength for a devastating punch, and finishing with Gear Fourth's elasticity to bounce back and continue the assault without losing momentum. This combined form would make him nearly unstoppable! Of course, this is all hypothetical, but it’s fun to think about how Luffy might evolve his fighting style in the future. Any favorite Luffy moments from the series?
Ryo allow his Haki to be isolated and controlled 4 and 5 are products of Haki awakening his body to his mythical Zoan. Looking at Marco he can use his flame wings in his base form and control his healing fire without transforming
Nah, this feels like more of a QoL than a power up. We still need him to become an elite "haki-man" with no assistance of DF powers. Both Egghead and Wano have hyped up haki as THE ultimate power that should in theory overpower any DF.
Maybe the gear 4 elephant gun was luffy attempting to see if he can even use a gear 4 attack in base but he didn't succeed at first and it only ended ip a gear 3 attack, he tried again later and he succeeded
Yet, he still can’t permamently damage the Gorosei, Luffy’s up there but still isn’t in the league of the big boys. Imu>Luffy Mihawk>Luffy Dragon>Luffy Shanks>Luffy Akainu>Luffy Aokiji>Luffy Kong>Luffy Garling>Luffy
@@JR-pu9bn Lmao, Its all hax from the Gorosei, no one cares about these bums anymore after what Luffy did in Egghead. Just regenerative punching bags for Luffy. Luffy also walks every single guy in that list as well.
with this revelations , luffy could fight much longer without suffering a faster stamina draining , i think his partial gear 4th based attacks would be most likely his casual pistol , and his partial snakeman based attacks would be his casual jet pistol , maybe later on , luffy would come up with another mastery towards his gear 5th , maybe luffy could do gear 5th based attacks with only partial transformation and i also think that luffy's based transformation in his gear 5th would be his giant form.
gear 2 + gear3 + gear 4, could be gear 2 skin/ buff plus gear 3rd aoe plus gear 4 haki technique could be powerful or add gear 5 as a base for everything else
Luffy is already a force of nature, remember when Jimbei calls him out for fighting Lucci on Egghead, Jimbei tells Luffy “…you’re an empreror, think about the consequences…”
I love gear 5 but I'm scared that gear 4th will get forgotten about because of it, gear 4 has so much potential like I wish he does a transformation which puts most of his strength Into his legs and break sounds barriers, that would be dope
Tbf once he has gear 5 under control he wouldn't need the other gears, they're inefficient compared to it. I would love it if he doesn't just stop using them outright tho
@@therevolutioniscoming315 nah, the fruit has these nerfs and im personally in favor of more to be revealed which isnt out of the question as egghead toned it down a bit alr. also, there has to be a reason why JB mastered haki to such a crazy extent. it being just a plot device feels wrong
I think we can think Luffy is now in "ultimate Gohan" state where he is now basically in base gear 4th everytime. However, the "jump" of his mastery is kinda fucked ngl when we didn't see "his training" for this power up because while in Egghead during the seraphim fight with Lucci, he still transformed to gear 4th then eventually gear 5th vs Gorosei
I don't think it's necessary to have his training arc again this is just luffy being able to grasp what his fruit truly is ever since he awakened it basically means he is understanding his devil fruit more and he is able to just do what he pleases like being able to use G3 without the need of wasting time to blow air etc...
He always had the power of "imagination" Would it be strange that Luffy was just imagining weakness? thus the devil fruit acted on said thoughts and made him smaller? Maybe he isn't rubber at all, and he was imagining being rubber so the devil fruit also acted on Luffy's thought imaginative process. Maybe he never really "had" gear 2, 3 and 4, he just thought of them as power ups and again his fruit just acted upon his ideas, lmao. That'll explain a lot of things.
My prediction would be now we won't see g4 for a while and see these mini versions paired with g5. Then by the end of arc it will be a new form boundman g5 something similar.
This evolution is so obvious though When luffy got gear 4th post timeskip he was able to use gear 3rd without repurcussions So now that luffy has gear 5th its natural to assume he can use gear 4th without repurcussions
Doesn’t Luffy also use ACOC when using Gear 4th? Mixed with his Ryou teachings we can assume Luffy can Speed Blitz anything with Gear 2nd into Demolishing anything with a ACOC/Ryou infused Gear 4th super punch (Kong/Culverin) if we do get so see a Gomu-Gomo no Kong Culverin in manga I can only imagine how Toei would animate it I hope we see it and the end of Elbaf
What people tend to confuse is "gear 4" with the "gear 4 tranformations" Any time luffy inflates his muscles, he is using gear 4, but he only transforms when he does this through his entire body.
I could be on the copium but if this is right isn't it possible for Luffy to train his gear 5th fatigue away just like gear 2nd's stress gear 3rd's shrinking and now gear 4th's fatigue problem
@@swordpiece cringe logic because luffy is strong enough to do that, also his devil fruit is a paramecia before it awakens, also I loved this theory video please make more even tho I disagree
@@gokukakarot5246 no it was never a Paramecia to begin with it's real name and type was covered it Acted like a Paramecia it had properties like it but it was never is a peramecia luffy Unlocking G5 is Luffy understanding his fruit more he is able to fight as he wishes, it's just Crazier when he is in it's G5 form being able to Expand much longer, Literally "create" goggles out of thin air cuz he just felt like it
Ever since gear 2 happened it made no sense. Boiling blood? Steam? Increase in speed? That's not "rubber" abilities, those are "Steam Engine Man" abilities. Now we know.
I mean, it explains it, he uses his rubbery body to be able to pump his blood faster, increasing his bodily functions' speed (becoming faster, the sweat evaporating off his skin), but it was very akin to gear 5's cloud sash
wait...has anyone explained why Luffy was immune to Enel's lightning attacks if he isnt really made of rubber? or is it just that he has the properties of rubber but isnt restricted to what rubber is capable of?
Why you guys saying upgrades? I guess, but like, it’s just something new that they had the potential to do, they just learned it on the fly, or knew they can do this just keep trying new things. Luffy might even be able to preform these types of techniques IN Gear 5.
This is obviously a weird retcon, 1128 was sloppy and full of mistakes, it is definitely a mistake, his gear third after time skip where mostly elephant named, even the art is clearly post time skip gear third, looks nothing like gear fourth. But I guess they had the clever idea to use it this way. I don't really know how to feel about it though.
This has double ended connotations Sure Luffy is mastering his fruit, but it affects his scaling Either he has weakened or animals are stronger than humans in the one piece world Also does it mean he now needs g4 to break through builds?
Dont be fooled. this is all Nami's interpretation of G4, were inside the halluciantion. Its like a semi filler arc. To fill the gap of getting to elbaf.
No it was already stated in 1129 that the reason they were captured had nothing to do with the absinthe but with the sleeping air they passed through. Likely just a misdirection by Oda.
