How Strong are Luffy's Gears? (One Piece)

[Music] the most iconic fruit of the series and the power of the soon-to-be pirate king all bundled away in a humble gumball-shaped package for all these years today we're going to recap the set of cartoonish seemingly useless abilities that are about to change the anime world forever going all the way back very beginning it's his very first now for anyone in the now first gear isn't really a thing but I'm gonna use it as a catch-all term for the powers granted to anyone who might consume the gumagomu no me so if you yes you Mr and Mrs viewer would magically stumble upon this fruit here's what it would do for you for starters The Upfront cost of eating any devil fruit is the loss of your ability to swim it's stated that the city might literally hate those who eat from one of these fruits in fact but what kind of trade-offs can you expect to get for the occasional dip in the pool in the case of the gum gum fruit you're granted the power of becoming a rubber man your skin bones and muscles all suddenly gain the power to stretch more for a contort to almost any shape you might need Luffy's cases let him fling his arms hundreds of feet away from himself to grab things throw punches that can scale a mountain and kicks high enough to Eclipse a building most notably for our straw-headed protagonist it gave him insane durability the power to bounce back from almost anything as long as it wasn't too sharp bullets bounce off cannonballs bounce off punches from a 10 foot tall furry yeah those bounce off too and while Olivia's man she used his power for a whole lot more than getting punched in the face and stretching such as making his feet into propellers his fingers into a net or twisting his body and limbs into coils for additional power those two things are sort of the major features of the gum gum fruit but what if we were to kick it up a notch yes indeed shifting gear as we reach the first canonically named gear being gear second just like the other gears to come on this list second gear is an innovated alteration made to Luffy's biology each working like their own Transformations that have their own unique functions and purpose in the case of second gear Luffy uses his rubbery Anatomy to stretch his heart and blood vest suddenly making his skin go flush red as his body emits Steam from every pore increasing his speed and power substantially the drawbacks for this power are pretty steep though as the user's body is pushed far beyond its maximum possible performance it burns off exponentially more energy making the user's heart rapidly pump out blood cells as it does this rapid multiplication of cells shortens the user's lifespan on top of draining them until they have no more energy to burn upon Luffy's first usage of this gear he was unable to walk out of the crumbling Halls of Venus Lobby by himself and would have most definitely died without his crew but for all those caveats what kind of power could make it worth it and for Luffy the trade-off was simply a raw strength increase unlike other gears that changed Luffy's biology externally gear second is basically just Luffy with every setting turned up to Max they give you some sort of concept about how much stronger this can make someone we can actually use the dorky scale accrued parallel system introduced in the water 7 Arc to get a gauge of the increase in his fight with blue now someone who had a door key of 820 Luffy managed to make him spit up blood through his iron body technique which increases defense and also managed to punch in midair while using the suru technique which increases speed this should put first gear Luffy well above 820 but I would say well below 2 200 as Zorro and Sanji his right and left-hand men fought with and we're on the losing end of a battle against Jabra and paku who were both on that level Lucci on the other hand who stalemated a gear second Luffy had a dorky of 4 000. so this would mean that was some simple math Luffy and bass should be around 1500 to 2000 and that would make gear second's Final power increase around two to three times the user space stats for anyone who watched one piece though you probably wouldn't have forgotten the Second Step Luffy took down the path of gears in this Arc coming by way of his unmastered third gear and unlike the second gear the third is a purely external change Luffy's stats are not affected holistically barring one obvious thing you see to use third gear Luffy bites a small hole into the gap between his thumb and Bones filling it full of air inflating his arm bone to a giant size dramatically increasing his attack power the obvious drawback with this technique is that after an attack the air will rush out of Luffy's body deflating him down to the size of a useless toddler although unlike all the other drawbacks on the list Luffy seems to eventually have found a way to work around it upon mastery so a massive power jump without any real long-term drawbacks seems pretty busted and since I already went over this in the last segment the power boost should be something akin to two or three times stronger than your second considering his basic G2 attacks were even with Luchi was his G3 attacks were well doing a little better one of the things you've all been waiting for though I'm sure has Luffy's penultimate power Pinnacle of gears for eight long years fourth gear unlike all that came before after Luffy's post times get power up combines two biological manipulations to create the peak battle machine the first manipulation is a clearly visible external change in which Liffey bites down into his arm muscles and uses the newly created Gap to inflate his muscular system with air the second change is incorporation of Maximum output full body hockey the power system in the world of one piece that coats his new muscle-bound body for insane damage output unlike all the other forms however gear Force Powers need a bit of explaining so trying to follow along you see as Luffy inflates his rubbery muscle fibers they stretch and expand increasing their mass and volume this makes Luffy's oversized body light and bouncy like a beach ball giving him the ability to abuse the real world physics of tension to dramatically boost his power to give you an example compare Luffy's attack to a rubber band if you pull back a rubber band and let it go it snaps forward like one of Luffy's punches but if you make that rubber band bigger and let it go with the same exact Force the output would be greater well this technically wouldn't work in real life Luffy's air infused gears are shown to increase in mass as well as volume this is also why bounce man bounces because of the square Cube law basically stating that volume increases around eight times as fast as mass relatively Luffy becomes bigger and heavier but breaks the volume formula making him incredibly light this functionally means that Luffy can pull back those heavier muscles even faster and harder than his regular gear one two or three muscle surprisingly this is also why fourth gear is the only gear to have multiple forms because to get the maximum effective usage out of this tension abusing system you'd need a variation snake man pumps less air meaning less Mass but relatively means much less volume this decreases Firepower and bouncy durability but increases speed and stretchiness as his muscles are lighter but not too over inflated for flexibility Tank Man on the other hand pumps all the air it can into Luffy stretching his muscle fibers to their maximum tensile strength this dramatically decreases his stretchiness and speed but actually boosts his defense to an insane degree as his rubbery fibers become tense while staying flexible enough to bounce off attacks as for drawbacks and multipliers these are expectedly the highest we've seen thus far the use of gear 4 completely saps the user for their physical strength upon reaching a Mastery dependent timeline and also completely drains them of their hockey for 10 straight minutes due to overuse this is the only case we've ever seen of that in the series as for damage multiplier though we see individuals like Dopey caught a curry and cracker all no selling punches from gear third quite easily which should all be at least four times Luffy space strength but gear 4 can consistently flower right through those durable roadblocks even those who are well above Luffy and strength so I would have to say a minimum of three times Gear 2 or 12 times Luffy's face strength is a perfect modifier for the insane strength of Bounce man as for snake man and Tank Man they're more likely in the two times range considering the bounceman push back and damage copperi whereas snake man was about equal to him I'm sure though that this here is the moment you've all been waiting for sitting through 10 minutes of gear seconds and gear fourths just to hear about the insane power certain Sun God true strength of the gum gum fruit the Apex of Luffy's abilities the magical nature of Nika the one who brings the dawn of the world which potential is only limited by the laughter and Imagination of those who surround him however for the sake of all the anime viewers watching and for the sake of my own personal sanity I'm just gonna have to implore you to go watch this anime history breaking event with blind eyes trust me we won't regret he's simply so insane that he has to get a video all of his own for all those of you who still really want to know about the insane Powers at play here this video gets 23 000 likes I'll make a part two all about the insane powers of this Mighty Sun God delving all the way into the future manga fence to explain every facet of this character if you'd like to see some more one-piece content check out the card in this video or the link in the description and uh you're down there if there's a series or topic you'd like to see covered in the future let me know that's all for this one so thanks everyone

Channel: TUCKALMIGHTY

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Keywords: Luffy, One Piece, Sun God, Nika, Gear five, Gear fifth, New gear, Fifth Gear, Shifting Gears, Luffy vs Kaido, One piece 1070, One piece chapter 1044, Anime, Power scaling, How strong is, Mythical Zoan, Devil fruit, Nika Fruit, Gum Gum, Manga, Gear 4, Gear 5, Snake man, Bounce man, Joy boy, Strawhat, Shonen, God form, God mode, Monkey D. Luffy, Explained, Gear five explained, awakening, awakened, Devil fruit awakening, Awakened Fruit, Hito Hito no mi, Human Human model nika

Id: BHnwM26BLPs

Length: 10min 11sec (611 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 16 2023