It's still a big boost given without FS, Luffy can't hit Kataluri yet the moment Luffy learnt FS he can hit Katakuri.
You're just repeating yourself without actually adding anything to the discourse dude.
We have an example of what happens when Katakuri doesn't have his precog up and moving, namely he got his shit rocked by Luffy before recentering himself. The only thing Luffy gaining precog accomplished was neuter the fact Katakuri had his own. As it caught up to Katakuri's, it was almost as if neither of them had it and wasn't worth factoring into the fight anymore. The pair cancelled each other out.
That scenario won't exist since in One Piece, only among the strongest can learn FS so in One Piece anyone with FS has the capability to dodge attacks from top tier if they can see 5 seconds into the future.
Again, the only thing that gives them is the knowledge to try. Its not the future sight doing the heavy lifting here, but their raw stats. The only thing precog grants them is knowledge on how to act. If they're fighting someone who possesses similar ability, this becomes void and its again just left up to the physical prowess.
Katakuri is much faster than base Luffy though.
But he isn't? They had a slugfest for hours before Luffy decided to pull out Snakeman where he was exclusively fighting in base with his newly acquired precognition.
Katakuri is as fast as Snakeman which is faster than G2 which is faster than base Luffy.
You'll find that the Bleach blitzing trope is almost literally poison in this hobby and exaggerates speed gaps in one moment while failing to highlight everyother moment where they were comparatively much, much, lesser. There's nothing of substance to suggest these speed increases for Luffy are even reaching a full 2 times outside of blitz tropes which get immediately contradicted by the other party then proceeding to keep pace with the same Luffy for the other parts of the fight.
Non FS Katakuri would still get rocked by Boundman. FS allows katakuri frok getting rocked by Boundman into low diffing him.
Because precog lets Katakuri play act at being a logia. That is what Katakuri's able to accomplish with his precognitive knowledge. There is no stat change accompanying it.
That was because Luffy was already in a cake. Katakuri can't prevent Luffy from entering the cake since Luffy entered the cake few days before Wedding Cake..
You're missing the point I'm trying to hammer home. Precognition isn't anything more than a tool to disseminate knowledge early. If you're lacking tools to act on it, the knowledge amounts to you watching a trainwreck in real time.
Base Luffy can't do anything to Doflamingo.
This whole "Base Luffy stat gap" thing is just the fandom having a poor conception of how minute these power ups functionally are in the context of this hobby.
Protects Kyros and defends against double Doffy just fine. Doffy is
wary of Luffy without using his Haki enough to employ his Armament at all in time for Gear 2nd (he was right to be wary as shown by
Red Hawk later on). Double CoA Doffy's assault (blunt and slicing) does
little more than have non-CoA Luffy exclaim that hurt and bleed from the slice respectively.
Competently fends off both Doffy controlled Bellamy and Doffy's slice in base with CoA using
Octo Stomp. Wrecked the Doffy double with
Jet Gatling. After
Luffy onesidedly took Belemy's beating? The clash with
Elephant Gun and Spider Web doesn't really tell us much (Elephant Gun didn't break it, but Spider Web didn't push it back), but we do know from his dodging that Doffy wanted fuck all of
Hawk Gatling.
Now, as for after Doffy ate and recovered from
Law's Gamma Knife and Counter Shock (basically Doffy's equivalent to a handicapping that Belemy's beating served for Luffy [as is alluded
here], just Luffy's wasn't as severe because he can't pseudo regenerate like Doffy, so it kind of evens out anyway)? You have
this entire relatively equal exchange that only ends once Doffy catches Luffy in the air (as in, Luffy can't brace). Kind of nonsense Doffy called his
attack weightless given just a second ago he was spitting blood from Luffy... and proceeds to clash with Luffy
evenly again?
Grizzly Magnum, while too slow, is definitely implied to be something Doffy wants no business catching either.
Only particularly shitty showings for Base Luffy vs Doffy were
here and
here. Beyond that, what we saw was a mostly even fight with a minor edge in favor of the pink asshole. Luffy was causing his ass pain when it counted and when he wasn't, both he and Doffy demonstrated some form of physical + CoA parity with Doffy holding an edge. Gear 4th was beyond Doffy, but not so much that he didn't take a good beating without notable critical injury beyond the final KO (all of which are in the post
here). You're not talking a substantial multiplier, especially for this hobby. 5-10x would be a massive exaggeration.
Base Luffy was outclassed.
Base Luffy and Doffy clashed evenly numerous times. Doffy had an edge, but it wasn't substantial.
We have weight classes IRL that highlight how small differences in raw stats need to be to have a fight go from even to a stomp, this doesn't change when evaluating a fictional brawl.
he had to use Boundman against Doflamingo who was nerfed by Gamma Knife and even then Boundman failed to finish off Doflamingo.
If your claim is that the pain caused by Gamma Knife nerfed his physical might, that'd make Doffy one of the biggest bitches in his tier as far as damage soak is concerned. Also contradicted by him being conscious after even a single Kong Gun, so let's not try to have our cake and eat it.
Luffy needed gladiators help to survive.
Sure, because Luffy was needed to recover his depleted stamina.