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I can see how it could be seen that way, but I think it's not drawn in the right place if that was what Oda intended. It looks like it drawn as being creating from Luffy's arm, not his fist.
That just looks like it expanded from his overly exaggerated fist’s impact point, not that it came behind his fist
 
I'm not entirely sure now overall pretty neutral. Both sides between Damage and KingTempest make good points in my eyes.
 
Lemme guess
“Where he currently scales, possibly where KT thinks he should scale?”
 
I can see how it could be seen that way, but I think it's not drawn in the right place if that was what Oda intended. It looks like it drawn as being creating from Luffy's arm, not his fist.
The uncolored manga doesn't even show the shockwave BEHIND the fist like the colored version seems to imply. It shows the shockwave between the sword and the fist, with the fist being more faint for being obscured behind said shockwave, rather than ahead of it like it would be if uncompressed.
Once that fist fully shot out, the actual shockwave was at luffy's bicep
 
Nice catch, that seems about right.
Plus iirc doffy says it raises his power several times "beyond it's LIMIT", meaning the limit of what Luffy could previously output with direct hits (maybe excluding G3 since Doffy never took direct blows), so it should scale above G2's maximum.
 
Plus iirc doffy says it raises his power several times "beyond it's LIMIT", meaning the limit of what Luffy could previously output with direct hits (maybe excluding G3 since Doffy never took direct blows), so it should scale above G2's maximum.
We went over this before and that's not what Doflamingo meant.
 
Also the only way for Luffy's attack being already uncompressed makes sense is if Luffy has TWO levels of compression. There's no reason a second shockwave would be behind his arm unless he retracted and shot out again, which is obviously not the case.
His fist never left its compressed state UNTIL it one shot the Cracker soldier.
 
Also the only way for Luffy's attack being already uncompressed makes sense is if Luffy has TWO levels of compression. There's no reason a second shockwave would be behind his arm unless he retracted and shot out again, which is obviously not the case.
His fist never left its compressed state UNTIL it one shot the Cracker soldier.
Nobody said there was a second shockwave.
 
We know Cracker's pretzel attack alone generates that impact shockwave
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Whereas Luffy's Kong Gun showed its shockwave after the fist launched out.
Either the impact was from the pretezel attack, or Luffy generated two shockwaves all by himself, which has never once occured before or after.
 
Whereas Luffy's Kong Gun showed its shockwave after the fist launched out.
Either the impact was from the pretezel attack, or Luffy generated two shockwaves all by himself, which has never once occured before or after.
Looking at the black-and-white panel, the shockwave doesn't look like a generation of their clash to me and it's the same shockwave as seen in the next page; all coming from Luffy's decompression.

I've given other evidence in the form of the anime version of the scene and Luffy's fist looking like it isn't recessed into its body.

While the staff who have commented have been neutral or leaning towards my side, I would prefer to settle this with a compromise with KT.
 
I've given other evidence in the form of the anime version of the scene and Luffy's fist looking like it isn't recessed into its body.
Can we stop talking about the anime? We've already made it clear that the anime can contradict instances in the manga and isn't MUCH reliable outside of timeframes for the most part.
Looking at the black-and-white panel, the shockwave doesn't look like a generation of their clash to me and it's the same shockwave as seen in the next page; all coming from Luffy's decompression.
By your logic Cracker's attack magically lost its shockwave when it generated it previous times consistently, then. If that shockwave is Luffy's decompression.
And again, if that's Luffy's shockwave then Cracker stopped a decompression and Luffy had to restart or stacked another, because the second shockwave is drawn different/consistent with Luffy's other compression attacks with the hole in the center.

Saying Luffy's fist wasn't decompressed includes the gymnastics of:
Cracker generated no shockwave whereas he does everytime before
Luffy generated 2 shockwaves and can stack compressions
Their clash had literally NO IMPACT which Oda draws every damn time

Whereas saying it wasn't fully compressed includes nothing but:
Cracker clashed with it, then it compressed and overpowered him.

I'll take the option with less leaps than a compromise for Ifs.
 
Can we stop talking about the anime? We've already made it clear that the anime can contradict instances in the manga and isn't MUCH reliable outside of timeframes for the most part.
I don't think this is a case where it contradicts the manga though.

I'll take the option with less leaps than a compromise for Ifs.
Fair enough, but I'll stick with my preferred option for now.
 
Tangentially related note but, can someone sort out which calcs on the Verse page are used for scaling and put the rest in a Supporting Calcs tabs?
 
Tangentially related note but, can someone sort out which calcs on the Verse page are used for scaling and put the rest in a Supporting Calcs tabs?

There's a scaling section
 

There's a scaling section
That still doesn't change how the Calcs Section is cluttered with Secondary Calcs that don't scale to anyone...
 
Can we settle on "At least 2.74, possibly 7.4" for WCI G4 Luffy so we can see about getting these revisions applied?
How exactly would this even look on the profile?

I'm guessing you'll only have one 6-C tiering for WCI G4 Luffy, so will you explain the possible differential in the explanation itself or...?
 
How exactly would this even look on the profile?

I'm guessing you'll only have one 6-C tiering for WCI G4 Luffy, so will you explain the possible differential in the explanation itself or...?
If you mean in the AP section itself, something like:

At least Large Mountain level (At least as strong as before), possibly Island level (It is possible that Gear 4 Luffy's strength briefly matched the force of Cracker's attack prior to his Kong Gun decompressing and overwhelming Cracker's biscuit soldier)

A note could be appended onto it explaining it further.

The manga's been contradicted with less. If it showed a sequence that the manga didn't then it's unreliable
What I'm arguing uses both the manga and anime.
 
Again, the anime interpertation pretty much adds the decompression whereas the manga doesn't until the fist is out. That's not the same
I get that perspective, which is why I'm happy with a "possibly" rating, but that's also not the way I see the manga panel.
 
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