One Piece's last few chapters saw the fight between Luffy and Kaido finally come to a conclusion as the newly awakened Devil Fruit powers of former, along with the power of advanced Conqueror's Haki and Ryuo helped him push the Yonko to his absolute limit and seemingly crush him. Luffy's Bajrang Gun proved to be incredibly powerful as it sent Kaido crashing down through the ground all the way to the deep abyss of Wano, straight into a pool of magma, where he joined Big Mom as well.
Kaido also lost consciousness due to Luffy's ferocious attack and slowly transformed back from his dragon form into his human form, as seen in the previous chapter of the story. However, the question remains, is Kaido down for good? Certain fans of the series believe that Kaido has more to offer to the plot of Wano, while others feel as if his flashback was incomplete and needs further exposition before his story is dealt with for good.
One Piece: What Will Luffy's New Bounty Be?
Luffy and Kaido's fight has been raging on for quite a long time now. Starting in the 1000th chapter of the story, the fight concluded in One Piece's 1049th chapter when Luffy finally landed his almighty Bajrang Gun on him and wrapped it up. Oda intricately dealt with the entire fight and delivered important exposition on things such as Joyboy, Nika, the Gomu Gomu no Mi, Haki, and even Devil Fruit awakenings throughout the fight. For every major Luffy fight in the story, Oda usually follows a pattern that sees him defeated a few times before he actually manages to take his enemy down. This was seen with the likes of Crocodile, where Luffy needed to fight him 3 times to finally defeat him, and then even against Enel, where his best certainly wasn't enough to take him down
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