On March 28, 2022, Eiichiro Oda released One Piece Chapter 1044, which gave us our very first look at Gear 5, the iconic awakened form of the Hito Hito no Mi Model: Nika. Since then, Luffy's Gear 5 has been central to every major battle that he has been in, and in the Elbaf arc, Eiichiro Oda showed its powers once again when the Captain of the Straw Hat Pirates took on the King of the World, Nerona Imu, in the climax.