This is a good episode, although I had really high expectations, specially the way Yamato was going to be introduced. Also, The clash between Ulti and Luffy was unnecessarily long and stretched as heck. Despite these flaws I consider it an above average episode, I understand the pacing is a production problem because they don't want to catch up the manga, neither they want to pause the anime because the channel needs profits. But I personally think they should have used filler scenes like previous episode with Big Mom and Chopper. I guess they should have added more fight scenes instead of long stares, camera panning to fodder reactions and elongated scenes across the scenery. All in all, I'm looking forward to seeing these upcoming episodes left for episode 1000.