Yes there's a big difference between fighting people a few hours before another fight and fighting multiple people at once. Multiple attacks from multiple angles no rest between attackers do I need more reasons?
The whole raid thing ended in few hours. If i m not wrong most of the arcs fight part ends in couple of hours.
One can also argue that while Kaido was fighting Scabbards, Luffy was fighting beast pirates and Numbers. Multiple attacks are meaningless if those attacks does no real damage.
Also we both know none of those fights for Croc meant anything as none of those guys had haki to harm him. So you're trying to equate Croc fighting scrubs who can't harm him to Kaido fighting like 15 people at once. Those are not the same.
The Scabbards cut him multiple times, Killers sonic blades clearly showed effectiveness, he had to dodge Zoro's slash. No, the real damage did not only start once G5 started.
In part 1 Haki wasnt fleshed out that well. That's why we saw very limited use of Haki.
And even if they had haki like Scabbards do you think they would have defeated the main villain of the arc?
Since u brought the topic of haki then Scabbards did literally no damage to Kaido. He himself called them "
Weak".
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Your point that Supernovas damaged him badly and he had to dodge some attacks is incorrect.
He wanted to test there strength. Which is why he let them hit him
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Also he didn't dodge Zoro's attack. Zoro missed.
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You wrote above something like multiple attacks, multiple angles but you forgot that BM was basically attacking supernovas with long distance lightning hits. Indirectly helping Kaido even though he doesn't wanted this.
Yes Flampe interfered first that doesn't change the fact Kata still handicapped himself in the fight which played a significant role in Luffy "winning" the fight. And I say "winning" because honestly Luffy won Kata over moreso than beat him.
And Doffy didn't just magically heal his organs back to 100% just by stitching them up that's not how organs work, stitches can come undone through excessive movements meaning he would be continually restitching his wound.
Again was it said in manga they lost there fights because of the wounds they received/ done to themselves?
Katakuri wanted a lvl playfield which is why he wounded himself. Heck after this we saw both of them going full conqueror haki knocking everyone out.
Doffy's wounds didn't open did they? He even said this after he got bored with Law's attacks
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Heck Doffy even went full awakening mode after sealing his wounds.
Also you are using real world logic into manga logic when you saying his stitches might have opened up. This makes no sense as in OPverse there exist magical drugs which can heal someone temporarily who has broken all his bones.
I'm not pointing it out because it's not my point and doesn't detract anything from my initial statement so why bother focusing on an inconsequential point?
So Doffy was in a 3v2 situation for a minute how does that change that Luffy and Law 2v1'd him? How does it change that without help Luffy still would have lost that fight if it was 1v1 from the start? It doesn't.
It was 3v2;
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You say the whole situation that Doffy had upper hand was for few minutes. But in reality Law and Luffy were in a situation where they were actually fighting multiple ppl.
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While Law was busy with Trebol and Doffy, Luffy was busy with Bellamy and Doffy's puppet.
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And yes it took more than few minutes for Luffy to figure out Bellamy situation while law was mutilated, shot by Doffy.
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None of the SH's helped him fight Croc, Robin wasn't a SH at the time. As I mentioned earlier, if you can't do any damage to the opponent then you aren't really helping him beat the opponent are you? Nobody helped him fight Enel because no one else could touch him, same for Croc.
No one helped him finish Moria after he came out of Oars' body. He didn't have Nightmare Luffy mode then either.
Zoro and Sanji didn't help fight Arlong they helped free Luffy. Zoro tried to fight but his one attack is blocked then he's snatched up and his bandages are ripped off. You call that helping Luffy beat the final opponent?
Nami's not helping Luffy fight Enel in that panel she's having her own interaction with him she's not even fighting him because she's unable to.
Providing food/meds/powerup, rescuing, stalling time all counts as helping Luffy.
In Dressrosa Luffy was carried by Gatz while fodders were stalling time for him. How is it any different than;
1)Nojiko saving Luffy
2)Sanji stopping the Ark
3)Robin buying some time for Luffy
Without there help Luffy might have drowned, Enel would have left with Nami and Luffy would have kept sleeping/died while Crocodile had left Alabasta.
Your argument that you will only consider those interruptions as important where someone did any damage to main character/main villain doesn't makes any sense.
What's 1v1? When 2 combatants fight each other without any help/interruption. Correct.
So was Dressrosa 1v1 ?
-when u clearly see Main villain sitting with 2 of his lackeys.
Mirror world was 1v1?
- when u got BM kids attacking n ppl bringing food for Katakuri.
Roof top fight was 1v1 ?
-when u see 2 of the Yonko staring n bragging that winner takes all.
I'm not denying he's had help during his fights before I'm saying helping Luffy isn't the same as fighting alongside him against the opponent.
A final fight is the last go against an opponent that results in them staying down.
The difference between Croc and Kaido or Doffy's situation is the time between the start of the last fight and the finish of it. Doffy and Kaido both had moments in the fight that lasted a few minutes where Luffy was unable to continue but came back before the fight actually ends.
Croc had a fight with Luffy where he was unable to continue, Croc leaves then hours later they have a rematch.
The first fight with Kaido and the final fight are clearly separate as they take place days apart from each other. The rooftop fight to the G5 fight is all the same fight, that fight never ended Luffy just got enough time from his help to come back before it ended.
G5 Luffy fight didn't take place at a whole separate time from the final fight. The final fight with Kaido began during the raid. That's like saying the 2nd burst of G4 against Doffy was a 2nd fight but it wasn't it was all part of the one fight he had that started with him and Law 2v1 against Doffy. The final moments ended with Luffy 1v1 but the final fight was not a 1v1 fight from start to finish.
Your final fight point is still not clear.
Rooftop fight itself can be broken into multiple segments;
1)Kaido Vs Scabbards
2)Supernovas Vs Yonkos
3)Kaido Vs G5 Luffy
And yes in between Luffy was unable to continue, got rescued, given food to heal while Kaido was busy with Yamato. And this trope as i showed happened almost in every arc.
When Luffy fights Main villain he looses or gets stuck in a situation where he needs help. After which oda shows what other SHs doing.
Alabasta arc is the best example as the entire fight sequence happened in a similar note.
Luffy fought the main villain and lost. Asked for meat.
Then came back flying and lost again.
3rd time's the charm and he won the fight.
So yes if you don't want to consider things that happened in between like Crocodile was fighting Guards, killing Vivi's friend, killing Robin then you should not considered Scabbards or Yamato stalling time for Luffy and directly consider G5 Luffy vs Kaido as 1v1.