(uncut) One Piece 465-468 (Patreon)

Luffy standing next to White Beard as if he's equal was priceless. this episode actually had a lot of priceless moments from my perspective.  Funny, a lot of times comments are happy about Luffy being humbled or not knowing his place or whatnot, but generally, I just root for Luffy and I like to see him excel and increase his standing in the world of big fish in a big ocean.  This is coming from a ZORO FAN lol.  We are seeing that his will power alone and current strength is not carrying him enough anymore, especially considering a few of his fights against big bosses Particularly Enel and Moria Geicko had some elements that happened to work out in his favor, he's going to have become stronger, I think that's where this part of the story is really headed and he continues to put his body at Risk...

Also one of these videos Marcos explains that White Beard had the IVY's for sympathy from others. Was that to mean he didn't actually need to be hooked up to Machines?  I caught it going back through some videos and seeing my own confusion lol.