You aren't either. The most we get from his childhood flashbacks consists of some hilariously abusive survival training and a few glimpses of him practicing his powers.
Luffy is just strong because most everyone in One Piece is strong. A character related to Luffy is the strongest character in the manga at the moment.
It works for a pacing I suppose, since it doesn't distract from the plot but honestly every time Luffy uses the Gears it bugs me. I really wish Oda would have just had him invent them on the fly(Like Mizu Luffy), rather than it being offscreen training. Offscreen training that I'll never see makes it all feel unearned. Unless it's a timeskip or in the case where the power just come naturally by instinct.
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I agree. i like the way a lot of Naruto's training is shown on panel. It makes me believe he truly earned it. I feel the exact opposite about Sasuke, who just comes up with new stuff every time he's shown. Hell, even lesser characters like Lee, Neji, Hinata, and Tenten are shown training rigorously.
It's not just the eye thing. It's everything. The lightning raiton, Kirin, etc. The only thing we have ever seen him train for was his giant fireball, and I respected the fact that his was better than Itachi's. He trained for it. We saw it. Everything else was just tacked on off-panel. Oh, and I guess that BS speed training that he obtained during the exams that made him comparable to lee.
That all occurred during a timeskip. There is no way that kind of training can be done on panel for everybody. Chidori was meant to be a surprise but I don't think anyone has ever had a problem with it. Copying Lee's speed? Well...yeah that was pretty freaking stupid. It kinda screws with the logic of the fights too since Naruto is later fighting on par with Sasuke though if the latter had Lee's speed it shouldn't have been much of a fight.
And I will note it's copying Lee's weighted speed, not his unweighted or gate speed (which is why Sasuke's post-speed training speed is 3.5 to Lee's 4.5).
Ah, no =/ I mean, yeah it's all punching and kicking, but that's what all hand to hand combat is, are people expecting Luffy to shoot Kamehame beams or something? I actually think Luffy's style is incredibly clever and fun and that Oda really spiced up not only hand to hand, but stretching based combat (you want bland, watch Reed Richards fight with just his powers and not his giant brain). His move list is large and varied (unlike Naruto who used like 2 moves for the entire first half of the series) and for a while he never used the same finishing move in a row. His upgrade moves are interesting as well and you can tell Oda puts a lot of thought into combat. So, no I don't think Luffy's style is bland, his fashion sense could use some work though (pre-time skip anyway: a vest with no shirt underneath and shorts? He's a pair of suspenders and work boots away from being a FF7 character :P ).
Well that Haki eye thing is kinda like magic eyes. lol He can now make 50K people pass outwith a look. Hell, he could have run through the Zetsu fodder in naruto's great war arc in like 10 seconds. lol
I liked how he got Obito by having Kakashi dimension dump his clone, than force Obito to flee to that dimension with a beast bomb, right into the waiting clones Rasengan.
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