Luffy's final showdown with Sir Crocodile still throws One Piece fans for a loop, but there's a simple answer.
Luffy faced the highest stakes yet when fighting Crocodile, and that fact is reflected in how their three fights turned out.
A fan theory suggests that Luffy might not use his Gear 5 against Blackbeard in One Piece series because he has another trump ...
Gear 5 is powerful, but Luffy needs to master Supreme King Haki to defeat stronger enemies. Supreme King Haki can't be trained directly; Luffy needs to grow stronger to improve it. Luffy must ...
However, he seems to say something that causes her to turn back around and begin beating him up. The focus then shifts to the Underworld, where Luffy and Zoro have found the bloodied and beaten Loki.