Like I said CIS, he doesn't need knowledge to be able to dodge a G3 attack, its just the smarter thing to do. He didn't use tekkai on G2, no reason for him to do it for G3.He doesn't really have a choice. I mean, if we're talking they have knowledge of each other's each fight, Luffy would be able to know to avoid his tail. He said he won't be caught three times by Rokougan, it only happened because the tail caught him by surprise. If they don't start with knowledge, then Lucci would block G3 because he'd think he can. While stunned, Luffy uses Gigant Stamp or Axe to finish him off.
Only thing you can say is the Gear 3 punch was so big that he didn't have space to maneuver inside. Change the location and he would dodge it.
And again this is his overconfidence in his ability not him having no options against this. He has plenty of ways to avoid this if he cares to. Luffy wastes his G3 turns into chibi Luffy and puts himself in an even worse hole.
I completely forgot to bring this point up.Garp wasn't even close to Roger let alone his equal at all. He stayed healthy and active marine while Whitebeard grew much weaker and was still WSM infront of him
More proof of Garp not being equal is the fact that right when Roger died WB was given the title of WSM. There was a reason Roger didn't have that title, or WB didn't have it when Roger was alive, because they were equals. Once one of the two were gone it was easy to hand the title over to the one left alive. The fact that the title was given with such confidence meant there truly was no one equal to WB after Rogers death.
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