Monkey D. Luffy vs Charlotte Katakuri
[One Piece] Was Luffy’s Victory Over Katakuri Actually Convincing?
Is Luffy’s win over Katakuri really believable?
Did durability and willpower outweigh actual combat performance?
Or was this just another case of unavoidable protagonist privilege?
[One Piece] Was Luffy’s Victory Over Katakuri Convincing?
Luffy Getting Overwhelmed From Start to Finish
Katakuri Falling First Despite Taking Less Damage
Future Sight, Armament Haki, and Logical Inconsistencies
👉 Luffy won because he could endure damage, not because he dominated
👉 Katakuri lost the moment his fighting logic collapsed
Luffy Getting Overwhelmed From Start to Finish
1: Anonymous Pirate
Luffy gets beaten almost one-sidedly the entire fight
He loses every exchange
Gets his stomach pierced, takes brutal hits everywhere
Stuff that should be fatal or impossible to recover from instantly
Yet he keeps getting back up
Meanwhile Katakuri barely gets hit, guards perfectly, and somehow drops first
There’s zero sense to Luffy winning this
2: Anonymous Pirate
Because he’s the protagonist. Because it’s a manga.
3: Anonymous Pirate
Because rubber.
5: Anonymous Pirate
Luffy’s durability is just insane
They revive him way too easily
Usually the gap in strength is filled with emotional buildup
But Katakuri fight didn’t even have that
It made no sense
This kind of writing makes readers think
“Oh that damage doesn’t matter anyway” next time
7: Anonymous Pirate
Katakuri stabbing himself does explain part of it
But still
9: Anonymous Pirate
How is Luffy supposed to beat Kaido like this
12: Anonymous Pirate
>>9
He hasn’t even awakened his fruit yet so it’s fine
Katakuri Falling First Despite Taking Less Damage
10: Anonymous Pirate
Katakuri wasn’t used to fighting while injured
Despite being insanely strong, he self-inflicted damage
Luffy on the other hand was used to fighting in conditions that would kill normal people
Plus protagonist correction
That’s probably why
11: Anonymous Pirate
The ending of the Katakuri fight was anticlimactic,
and this pattern will probably continue.
No matter who he fights, Luffy will win.
That’s why the author can’t draw those fights yet.
Luffy will never die, and any damage can be handwaved by main character privilege.
Kaido can be weakened whenever the author feels like it.
When you already know the outcome, Luffy’s fights are the least interesting.
13: Anonymous Pirate
>>11
The problem isn’t that the author can do whatever he wants,
it’s whether he can make it convincing to the reader.
14: Anonymous Pirate
He relied too much on Observation Haki
Maybe that made him fragile?
20: Anonymous Pirate
After Luffy ran once and came back
They fought for a while before Katakuri stabbed himself
But Katakuri hadn’t taken a single hit
Luffy was just getting wrecked nonstop
Then suddenly Katakuri starts respecting Luffy
Worried when Luffy gets hit by arrows like
“What’s wrong, Straw Hat?” lol
You were dominating him the whole time, why respect him now
40: Anonymous Pirate
>>20
Maybe the stomach wound was actually fatal
21: Anonymous Pirate
Maybe offscreen Katakuri took a lot of damage
But if you don’t show it, we can’t tell
That’s bad manga writing
39: Anonymous Pirate
The first Lucci fight was full of despair too, though.
44: Anonymous Pirate
If you REALLY try to defend it
Maybe eating mochi healed or powered him up
…still crazy that Luffy won
62: Anonymous Pirate
Katakuri’s spirit probably broke
Future Sight, Armament Haki, and Logical Inconsistencies
45: Anonymous Pirate
If you read carefully
Luffy blocked Katakuri’s heavy attacks with Armament Haki
So they weren’t fatal
At the end, Luffy landed a punch with stronger Armament than Katakuri’s
So it was a one-hit KO
I think it was actually a high-level conclusion
46: Anonymous Pirate
>>45
It really didn’t look like that
47: Anonymous Pirate
>>46
That’s probably how fights between top-tier Haki users work
At that level, the deciding factor is limited
So fights can end in an instant
Oda has drawn many kinds of battles
I’m glad this one wasn’t the same as usual
49: Anonymous Pirate
Katakuri’s style was dodging with future sight and mochi
So he was weak to taking hits
Isn’t that enough of an explanation?
50: Anonymous Pirate
If he can see the future
But can’t dodge punches because they curve
That already makes no sense
52: Anonymous Pirate
>>49
That works for me
>>50
Observation Haki doesn’t work if you lose focus
He probably lost it near the end
They were just punching each other nonstop
53: Anonymous Pirate
>>50
Yeah
If punches curve, they actually take longer to land
If you can see far enough ahead to dodge fast punches
You should see curved ones too
What kind of logic is that
65: Anonymous Pirate
>>53
Future sight can’t see branching futures
So if he dodged the punch that was supposed to hit
He couldn’t see what happened next
68: Anonymous Pirate
>>65
Why not?
If dodging makes the punch curve
Then just see that future too
Same as dodging rapid punches
73: Anonymous Pirate
>>53
If Luffy read the “dodged future” and bent his punch there
That means he changed the future
So Katakuri not dodging perfectly makes sense
54: Anonymous Pirate
I felt the same kind of discomfort when Zoro fought Mr. 1.
The injuries always lack convincing weight when the author wants someone to win.
56: Anonymous Pirate
I still don’t get why stuff like biscuits or mochi are even strong.
57: Anonymous Pirate
If his sister hadn’t interfered,
and he hadn’t gotten wounded in the side,
maybe he could’ve won.
59: Anonymous Pirate
When they traded Armament punches, Luffy was clearly in pain.
That scene alone makes Luffy’s win feel wrong.
Even Pica and Vergo could coat their whole bodies,
so is Katakuri too incompetent to do full-body Armament?
62: Anonymous Pirate
Katakuri’s heart probably broke.
👉 Luffy won because he could endure damage, not because he dominated
Throughout the fight, Luffy was losing almost every exchange.
What kept him going wasn’t superior technique or strategy,
but abnormal endurance and adaptation under extreme damage.
This wasn’t a clean victory. It was survival.
👉 Katakuri lost the moment his fighting logic collapsed
Katakuri’s strength depended on never getting hit.
Once he injured himself, lost focus, and accepted damage as inevitable,
his entire combat philosophy broke down.
The fight ended not when Luffy surpassed him in power,
but when Katakuri stopped fighting like Katakuri.
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