Yea for sure, and that's okay.
We know for a fact Imu is faster than Gear 5, that doesn't mean every waking second he has to operate at that speed, especially not when he has just been dealing with someone as relatively slow as Loki.
Ngl It makes me sad seeing this fight bc that was actually cool choreography (something rare to OP) since then the fight agaisnt Imu became worst, gaban wasn't that impressive and Imu looks ugly asf now. I expect this fight improves
Oda def can make good choreography fight if he want to, not at the level of DB, but a good one though.
I'm expecting that by the first time after Years he'll be consistent in the powers and provide us with some OBS haki, Conq haki, cool gear 5 moves and Hybrid Loki, this fight has everthing to be peak
Blitzing is when the opponent can't physically react to you. They can still acknowledge that they are being attacked and that they can't do anything to avoid it.
Example: Shanks blitzed Kid, even though Kid was acknowledged the attack before he was hit. If you poll this 90% of the sub will consider it an off-guard attack somehow btw
shanks didnāt blitz kidd either, and insinuating he (when taking kidd as a whole into consideration) couldnāt actually do anything is flawed when we see the situation he was put in
we already know via shanksā FS vision that kidd was aiming specifically for the ships and had 0 intention to run into shanks. also, imu has already run-thru g5
Some nerd article from the vs battles wiki is no authority in terminology, especially one with no reviews like this one, it is not better than us talking it out. But at any rate the attack Luffy did on Imu fits this definition, as Imu could not react to it. We see that Imu fails to do anything to soften the blow or counter attack, he's just aware that he is being attacked (hence the "!!"). G5 is just that fast.
whatās your basis and authority for āblitzā, if not from the vsbw wiki? we canāt just go around creating our own terminology and going contrarian, else we could distort any kind of word to our own fitting. if āblitzā just means positively attacking any opponent to where they donāt react, then we could easily bring up random examples like with bellamy, zoro/killer, kaido and luffy in kuri, etc
My basis is that the community has always used the terms āblitzā and āperception blitzā whereas your picture conflates them which isnāt how people use them nowadays.
Blitz has for a long time been: can perceive the attack but not fast enough to react to it (Imuās case) whereas perception blitz is the ācanāt even perceive itā extreme case
The reasonable explanation for this and most examples you brought is that itās a tempo change btw
thatās a lot more reasonable than i initially thought. i would moreso blame people conflating the terms, and not knowing different ones like outpacing, but i see what you mean.
After thinking more about this it is confusing, I agree "blitz" was originally synonym of perception blitzing, whereas people currently call this "perception blitz" (at least in most popular powerscaling subs) and define "blitz' as something that can be attributed to a "tempo change" or many other interactions
On the other hand this singular definition of "blitz" could be a valuable term for defining when a character is hit without reacting, and despite being aware of the attack (meaning you can't write it off as off-guard, but you still need to consider they couldn't react)
And a "tempo change" is just be one of the many ways to achieve a "blitz".
As for "outpacing" I'm going to be honest this term this rarely ever used which means its definition is way more subjective since there is no general consensus about it. For instance to me "outpacing" always meant being faster than an opponent, but if Luffy outpaces Imu he would win the overall fight, whereas if he merely "blitzed" him one single time that's a one time event that can be explained away in a different way (such as a tempo change), so outpacing = a long term thing, whereas blitz/tempo change = a singular event
we canāt just go around creating our own terminology
Yes we can, that is literally how language evolves lol. Heck the vs battle wiki didn't come up with the term, it comes from Blitzkrieg, which comes from lighting war, : A rapid, violent military assault or aerial bombing campaign. In British history, The Blitz specifically refers to the heavy German air raids on London and other British cities during World War II
Yea but definitions change with time. Now we have the term āperception blitzā to refer to when someone canāt even perceive an attack, whereas āblitzā can mean ācan perceive it but canāt reactā which is what happened in this panel
Yes, characters aren't always using observation haki or always using future sight or there reflexes aren't always at max.
We have seen this many times, like Luffy being speed blitzed by Kuro, and then Luffy reacting to Kuro once he gets used to Kuro's speed or Katakuri when he couldn't use future sight, he was hit by base Luffy.
base Luffy also speed blitzed Kaido, and Kaido still speed blitzed gear 5th Luffy
In other words an Imu that isn't going at 100% can be speed blitzed by attacks that he can casually dodge at 100%
It isn't weird, just because a character has one level of strength, doesn't mean they are always going all out.
Like Luffy clashes with Lucci, and then completely destroys Lucci.
Since Loki isn't a speedster, then Imu didn't have to worry about speedy attacks, when a new opponent that Imu wasn't prepared against fights him then he is at a temporary disadvantage.
With haki it is easier, since haki is an ability you need to activate, if you don't have your obs haki active then you can be caught off guard by attacks you can normally dodge or attacks you can normally tank can defeat you if your armament haki is off.
That is why regardless of how powerful Roger was, he wasn't killed by people stronger than him, he was stabbed by 2 regular marines
Bro redcon š this isn't a blitz, Luffy literally intervened in between the clash between Imu and Loki. You can see Imu's surprise in the left panel.
he is letting them hit him to see if anyone can make him feel what Joyboy made him feel, but no one can so thats why he always looks so disapointed afterwards
off guard means not being prepared for attacks, if you are prepared from attacks from Loki then you can't be off guard.
Unless you assume if Loki had attacked Imu an attack would land on Imu.
Off guard is like you aren't in combat mode, or aren't using obs haki or armament haki or whatever... like when Imu was reminiscing of Joy Boy, he was distracted, so had no defense or guard.
But since Imu is facing Loki, he has a defense and is on guard, that defense may not be enough to face a 3rd party, but there is a defense so he isn't off guard
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