Luffy – Gear Fourth theory

Gear second was blood, gear third was bone, my idea is gear fourth is muscle/flesh.

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I thought it’d be interesting if he took full control of the elasticity of his body. In my idea of Gear Fourth, he retains the same shape, but gets slightly darker, like a lighter version of armament haki.
He’d fight in this way without stretching, as we’re used to with the rest of his gears. When he fights in Gear Fourth, he takes any blow, or counters it with one of his own, has his body internally vibrate, strengthening the attack, and returning the attack with his own power PLUS the force he was hit with almost immediately.
Say someone punches him, and Luffy counters his punch by punching the dude in the fist (because that’s how he fights) the dude’s strength shockwave travels through Luffy’s body into his attack on the other side of his body. When Luffy swings and hits the dude with his next punch, the force of that punch is Luffy’s PLUS the force the dude hit him with at first.

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Now, he could chain these attacks, as each successive attack could be considered stronger than the last (force waves bouncing back and forth inside of Luffy’s body, allowing Luffy to strike at the right times to build them up and make them stronger).
Another idea I thought of is Luffy could go Gear Fourth, and start punching into his hand as he usually does before battle, and he just keeps punching harder and harder, faster and faster, building up the force, and then smashes the big bad in the face. That’d be an interesting introduction, we just see Luffy one shotting a big bad he’s had trouble fighting previously with Gear Second and Third.
The downside, because every awesome bonus must have a downside is two fold:
One, if he doesn’t connect with a hit after building up sucessive hits, the force just propagates uncontrollably throughout his body and he goes back to regular Luffy, with his limbs/body flailing everywhere as the forces he’s been bouncing back and forth in his body are unleashed. Doesn’t nessecarily cause bodily harm, but it makes Luffy temporarily lose control, for longer and stronger amounts of time based on how much force he’s accumulated.
Two, and the real issue, if Luffy continues to attack like this and doesn’t win in time, the forces inside of his body could build up enough to literally tear him apart. With this, if he gets to a certain point where he hasn’t won yet, he’d have to force himself to miss and hope that the guy he’s attacking doesn’t take advantage of the fact that he’ll be vulnerable when he loses control of the forces inside his body.
Maybe after some training he can learn to ground himself before building up too much power.

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11 comments

  1. mattdbordacs

    I LOVE the theory of this idea, one of the only theory’s on here that I like the idea of!

    Great job!

  2. no boss

  3. saqib bilal

    I don’t agree with this theory… its absurd, luffy cannot re-attach his limbs once he has fired them off, if he could, he would have no problem fighting swordsmen.

    fourth gear is indeed a mystery but I think it could be a 2nd gear + 3rd gear in full body inussed in haki since he did train for 2 years in gaining perfect haki.i he could turn fully black and fight with speed of 2nd gear then he could be lethal against fruit users, then again its ust what i think and i do not haive any logic to back this theory.

  4. I think he will be able to change into a proper rubber or what I meant is that he could form his body into a semi-liquid type.

  5. He who likes to read theories

    I rather see why Zoro’s eye is shut :-p

  6. Do you think luffy skill will be weak as this? Luffy more to speed and strenght. This skill surely hold back luffy in great amount of speed. Although it might be strong, luffy will never beat stronger opponents. To me this idea was bullshit. Especially use this on doflamingo. It will be suicide.

  7. Luffys gear fourth is he will change his form into a rubber ban and usopp will use him to shoot at doffys nose, he will be out of oxygen and die. Mugiwara wins!

  8. Gear 4th is about Luffy’s hands will simply become a pair of gloves and it will make him strong and look so cool! ^_^

  9. Honestly, that’s the dummest thing i’ve ever heard. I’ll stop following OP if somethign like that happens

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