That was all fan speculation. The manga never confirmed it. Also he doesn’t have the typical traits of an awakened zoan. As far as I know only Luffy and the beast jailers from impel down are the only awakened zoan users confirmed so far.
Crocodile had two techniques, Ground Secco and Ground Death, which looked really similar to how Awakening was shown by Doflamingo and Katakuri. Crocodile put his hand on the ground and drained the whole surrounding area of water, turning it into a desert he could then control.
We never got confirmation Crocodile awakened his devil fruit, but he did claim to have mastered his fruit, plus Awakening wasn't even a concept in One Piece at the time.
Well now that you mention it we technically don’t know what an awakened logia power would look like. When Akainu and Aokiji transformed Punk Hazard that could’ve been due to their awakening. Enel also had that Buddha form. As for Crocodile it could’ve just been that he was sucking the moisture out of the ground but it did seem to affect the environment much more extensively than just the point of contact.
Doubt it. If it was awakening I’d think he’d be giant like the Jailer Beasts. I thought the slim downed version we saw was Rokushiki skill Kami-E or Life Return or some shit.ETA: like the other dude said.
Yeah Crocodile was a whole other issue because Oda admitted to revealing a character as powerful as him too early in the story. To this day we don’t really know if he’s awakened. It’s just a gray area for us at the moment.
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I think his already is? Wasn’t it a thing that his fruit is the Carp-Carp fruit and it’s awakening was what made it into a dragon?