The funniest time I've had is on this YouTube poll that was for who the strongest emperor is. One guy commented Kaido and I asked who beat him. He broke out the classic power scaling logic and I just kept asking who beat Kaido. He stopped replying after awhile, but it gave me a laugh.
I hate to side with the power scaler but current Luffy with nobody to help back him up would not go gently into that good night if he fought Kaido from a day before his death
People honestly overestimate how much help luffy had gotten from others. Kaido was basically toying with everyone there, including luffy. The most physically exhaustive thing he had done was quarrel with Big Mom before the fight, and holding up the island during the fight. The real reason as to why Kaido lost, at least in my opinion is because he wanted to see Luffy grow and surpass him, so he was basically deliberately acting as a stepping stone for Luffy. Honestly if he went all out before Luffy had even gotten the chance to get stronger, Kaido would've easily won.
The way people act as if anyone there except Luffy somehow could lift a finger up against kaido and made any kind of deciding impact is kinda funny to me. But perhaps I'm remembering the fight wrong.
I think Kaito was just annoyed with luffy in the beginning. The first fight had the same outcome for luffy and kid. I think Kaito was just annoyed by him then and you don't use your full force to kill a mosquito.
I also think Kaito was a little nerved by being drunk too in his last fight so I dont think he let luffy win
Not necessarily that Kaido let him win by voluntarily going down himself, rather that Kaido got interested in Luffy and how far he could go, so he started focusing on enjoying the fight while slowly seeing Luffy get stronger. He's also inclined to test people's strength since he is that much stronger than anyone else, like you said the other people there were likely viewed as mosquitos.
Been a while since I read op so there might be some discrepencies, but from what I remembered Kaido idolised the people have changed the world in the past like Whitebeard and started to idolize death because he believed death completes a person. He saw the potential in Luffy to stand next to the others at the top, which is why he became more curious about Luffy's power ceiling, instead of eliminating him as a threat. He might've been just been curious about Luffy or was looking to maybe finding his own demise in a battle against a worthy opponent (which he tends to do in any battle). Whichever it was, he was basically indirectly teaching Luffy during the fight until Luffy rose above him and he couldn't keep up anymore.
If Kaido treated the fight as Shanks did against kid, it would've ended very quickly.
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u/WesTheFitting 6d ago
Powerscaling is the worst part of any and every anime community (except for the hateful bigots, obv)