it was a joke if you see that episode more closely you see the guy who told archangel where to hit apoc to kill him, later on apoc shapeshifts into the same guy who brought archangel the info of the spot where to hit apocmeaning apoc just wanted to make fun of archangel if there was prep i have to give it to thanos, but if no prep then apoc wins
thanos is not light speed since when was he ever light speed in the cartoon? in the cartoon nothing hurt apoc not anyone did nothing to him he could just grow or whatever and beat on multiple people, only reason they won is cause they freed the psychics who knows what would have happend if they where never freed maybe apoc would have killed them all, he sure did it plenty in earlyer encounters.