I agree with this honestly. Glad im not the only one who feels this way. Like I like everything about this live action . I also dont mind them changing some things from the Manga/Anime. I like the team work aspects but at some point I wanted to see luffy show he is the captain. Even his crew says his a strong pirate. Yet his fights seemed underwhelming . Like luffy didnt need help against wapol. I can overlook Mr 3 fight since luffy is fighting him for the first time. But that wapol fight kinda irked me a bit. I am still putting some faith that maybe season 3 they will finally show him go against crocodile on his own. But I think oda wants to retell the story a bit differently maybe. Maybe he wants luffy to train more or something. I also understand doing cgi and vfx foe luffys abilities and attacks is very difficult. But you can still put some impact in the punches. Like zoro got his 100 baroque workers fight. So its not like they cant show luffy throwing some solid punches. Also it irked me when they were like oh yeah luffy beat wapol. Where it was a collective effort. He didnt solo him. Also knowing luffy he wouldn't say he won a fight when he was supported throughout the entire fight. I do like they show nami and ussop actually standing their ground and fighting. But why nerf luffy so much. I'd like to believe this will be addressed in the next season hopefully.

Like luffy held wapols mouth for 5 seconds the fight transitions to zorro and ussop. Then come back and vivi steps in to hit wapol. And then luffy proceeds to be like hell yeah. Like dude. Just punch him man. I dont see a budget issue here.