Once Piece characters shout out their attacks because there's a huge physical and spiritual advantage to doing so - in fact, you could almost say it's a spell that allows you to invest more in your attack and get more out of it in return. It's the power behind their words that truly sends the enemy flying!
Luffy always begins his attacks by saying "Gomu Gomu no..." and finishes with an attack-specific word, either in Japanese or English, such as Gatling or Yari. The majority of them are named after guns and various other firearms.
Because manga is typically black and white, characters can look similar to each other. To fix these issues, mangaka have their characters announce themselves and yell the names of their special attacks. In the flurry of action lines and camera angles, a reader can get confused and lose what is going on.
When the series was brought over to the west, “Gomu Gomu” received a somewhat liberal translation. While “gum” isn't really a proper translation of “ゴム/gomu”, it still preserves the idea that Luffy is elastic, and “Gum Gum” is much more phonetically similar to “Gomu Gomu” than “Rubber Rubber” would've been.
Gum-Gum Pistol has become Luffy's signature attack throughout One Piece. Luffy typically pulls back his arm for this attack and propels it forward to deal an incredibly powerful punch. Luffy displays many variations of this technique in the series, especially when used in tandem with his different gear forms.
Sir Crocodile was the main antagonist of the Alabasta arc of the series and the first Shichibukai that Luffy took down. Crocodile is easily one of the most difficult fights that Luffy has ever fought as he lost to him twice.
When he was a child, he was afraid when Garp would find out about his dreams of sailing as a pirate. He is wary of Nami's temper, as he thought whoever wanted to marry her is brave.
With his devil-fruit powers, Luffy is able to manipulate his rubbery body into various forms, which he calls “Gears.” Currently, Luffy has managed to unlock up to five gear forms, and his fifth gear is known to be his peak form. He was able to unlock Gear 5 after awakening his devil fruit.
The fruit was a treasure sought by the World Government for over 800 years, until it was stolen by Shanks and his crew in recent history. It was then accidentally eaten twelve years ago by the series' protagonist, Monkey D. Luffy.
More importantly, the fruit's real name was hidden by the Government to hide its significance. In a shocking turn of events, it was revealed that the Gomu Gomu no Mi is actually a Zoan type of Devil Fruit and its real name is the Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika.
The biggest issue fans have with One Piece is the pacing. Many scenes are dragged out to a ridiculous degree and most episodes also dedicate the first five minutes to recap. Each episode may be twenty-four minutes, but in the most extreme cases, episodes will only have ten minutes of new content.
Zoro figures out that Luffy's message on his right arm means the Straw Hats will not meet after three days but two years. That is why the title is 3D2Y with 3D crossed out.
Luffy's Gear 5 is his strongest asset in One Piece, which is powerful enough to overpower the King of Beasts, Kaido. Although Luffy calls it Gear 5, it is actually the awakened state of his devil fruit.
And then later on he ate the two fruits and cuz of his sleeping disorder the two devils wouldn't fight each other.
Zoro would receive Kaido's powerful Mythical Zoan Fish Fish Fruit, which enables its user to turn into a dragon and Sanji would receive the Swim Swim Fruit, which enables its user to swim through solid surfaces like the ground.
The more he laughed, the better he seemed to fight. Throughout the clash against Kaido, fans could see him laughing even though he was fighting a high-intensity battle, which just goes to show how important it is to his character.
So based on the current anime's progression, we will get to see Luffy Gear 5 in any one of the episodes between 1065-1070. That means we will see Luffy's Gear 5 in the One Piece anime sometime within the next two months, possibly in late May or early June of 2023.
Gear Five gives Luffy the ability to fight freely and without much constraint as shown in his bout with Kaido and now Rob Lucci. This means Luffy can be hit with deadly attacks that now leads to his physical appearance forming either a shape of the weapon, or showcases the manner in which he was hit.
Throughout his journey Luffy has made strong bonds with numerous women. At least two have fallen in love with him, Alvida and Hancock, whilst another two have become enamoured with him, Rebecca and Shirahoshi. Nami, Robin and Vivi all share close and deep bonds with Luffy and have become some of his closest friends.
Given the evidence, Luffy's IQ could easily be anywhere between 90 and 130.
Usopp remains to be the weakest member of the Straw Hat Pirates. In Wano, the vast majority of the members of the Straw Hat crew received good power-ups. However, Usopp was one of the members who did not receive any power-up and thus is lagging behind.