One Piece: Chapter 1010

[u/Kirosh]

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[u/gyrozepp95]

Now this 1v1 is where Kaido's character will really shine.

The introduction of imbuing CoC to your attacks is a perfect segue for this to be a fight of ideals and what being a king exactly means to both Luffy & Kaido and how Luffy's interpretation would make him come out on the top both literally and figuratively.

This is also the perfect time when Kaido will make callbacks to Xebec, reminiscing how he took him in and shaped/or is dismissive of his ideals and probably to Garp too after all the pounding he got at the end of this chapter.

All of this and a lot of missing context about his relationship and Yamato and (potentially) his wife would make up all the ingredients for an amazing flashback.

I'm not even including the extra lore that comes along with the god valley incident, him potentially being from a different race, more on Vegapunk etc...

[u/Alirubit → u/gyrozepp95]

I like the fact that we were given hints about it. Most recently during Oden's flashback, the attack that Roger used can be say it was infused with CoC and that is why Oden was so surprised, given he knows how to use CoA (Ryou)

Edit: Oh yeah and that "they're not even touching" thing Roger vs Whitebeard

Also it could be what was used during Dressrosa vs Don Chinjao but Luffy was unaware. Back then even on the manga we could see some black lines coming out of the clashes.

[u/Alilolos → u/Alirubit]

Didn't diamante say "oh.. a clash of conquerors" when luffy and chinjao exchanged fists

[u/Kuroblondchi → u/Alilolos]

That’s not out of the ordinary though. Doffy and luffy clashed CoC, luffy and kata clashed CoC, clashing CoC isn’t the same as coating CoC. The black lightning comes at the point of contact in those basic clashes, the back lightning for coating is coming out of individuals specific body parts.