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Yeah, I honestly think it's kinda nice when Luffy gets his ass kicked, weirdly. Like, obviously I'm rooting for him, but I know he's gonna be (in the long run) fine in the end, and he's typically so OP, it's a nice change of pace when he gets his ass beat a little.

I think the first like, really major time that happened was with Crocodile. Hell, didn't he technically lose to Croc twice before finally beating him?

As I've mentioned once or twice before, most of the time they solve Luffy's OPness by just getting him stuck somewhere for half the arc, so I'm cool with a good ass beating every now and then to get him in gear.

I loved the Skypiea arc, but the fact that he spent 40% of that arc trapped inside a giant snake, and another 20% incapacitated by the giant gold ball on his arm, it was a little silly tbh. At least it gave a lot of the other characters a good chance to shine tho.