Somehow the dynamics were somewhat lacking in this episode. The pirates were underperforming and standing still while the bad guys were using their powers to the max and moving around. You'd think the other rookies would have had quite a few tricks in their pockets if they have bounties equal to Luffy. Instead they seemed to run out of them really fast unless this was just a Rocky moment of them accepting hits before really getting up (but it didn't look like that).

Also Zoro, who after beating the steel fruit guy should be able to cut anything, was having lots of trouble against a robot. Sure, the laser beams were troublesome (although they could have waited the clone runs out of batteries), but with a little bit of distraction the clone would have become scrap metal.

Nevertheless, it looks like whoever is going to make a stand against the World government should start by killing Vegapunk. The guy is serious trouble.