If surving blows to the head is the measure of effectiveness idk why you're using Rokougan & the impact dials when characters have survived those attacks to the head as well.
There's a pretty big difference between the two, Rokugan and Impact Dials were made for the sole purpose of durability negation and target organs on a much more precise and accurate level. Whitebeard's Vibrations aren't as lethal, they're more widespread but for that sole reason makes them less lethal.
Whitebeard's Vibrations don't turn innards into mush, nor do they effect internal organs on the level of Rokugan, Ryou or Impact dials.
Whitebeard's using Vibrations, not a direct shockwave. Violently shaking rubber isn't going to effect it very much in the long run, Whitebeard's Devil Fruit allows him to create indirect shockwaves. Rokugan and such create shockwaves directly, work on a much smaller and precise scale and are meant as durability negation as its foremost usage.
Essentially what i'm getting at is that Whitebeard's durability negation is overblown as shit. He isnt pulling a Reverse Flash with his Vibrations, nor can he use them for distributing molecular structures like HF swords from MG. Hell he isnt even turning organs into mush. Passing Vibrations through rubber won't affect it, Rokugan and such are effective because they
detonate inside whereas Whitebeard's Vibrations just well,
pass through the body.
BB taking them isn't really a fault to them either since he also took the shock wille from Law which were devastating towards SA Big Mom while the regular one was uneffected by Jinbe's FMK.
That's overall meaningless to my argument and doesn't serve as a counter argument. Shock Wille was never targeted at his head, and again it works differently than Whitebeard's Gura Gura. Shock Wille is a electrical based attack that fries the opponent up from the inside, you can't compare electricity to vibrations.
He isn't, the gura gura attacks are shockwaves that phase through things and we already see Luffy plenty of times cannot resist shockwaves due to them not stretching his body.
No, the Gura Gura aren't shockwaves. They can indirectly produce shockwaves by the manipulation of vibrations, and read above. Whitebeard's shockwaves aren't nearly as lethal as a targeted and precise Rokugan. Again sending vibrations through rubber isn't going to be doing much to said rubber.
Rubber is quite literally used as an anti vibration material and is the best anti vibration material for a reason.
This also wouldn't change with Gear 5th just like how cutting attacks effected Luffy the same as shown by Kaidou.
False, comparing apples to oranges there. Kaidou uses cutting attacks, something that is a counter to rubber material. Unlike Kaidou's attacks, Luffy would be naturally resistant to the shockwaves that Whitebeard produces.
