How will the Supernovas fare against Hybrid Kaido?


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You know what's really interesting about these spoilers? Almost everyone just assumed Luffy had mastered G4 like it was a foregone conclusion, myself included. It's the MC of a shonen manga bias, no one wants to downplay or question Luffy in terms of power. They're scared that If they do they'll just be handed an L. But because no one really ever questions Luffy's strength, stuff like this goes under the radar.

On the flipside if Zoro does anything, you can bet your ass all factions of other fandoms will be at his throat. I guess that's also because his fans are also quick to wank him into the heavens.

Maybe if even a fraction of the Zoro wank and downplay went to discourse about other characters it wouldn't be such a disappointment that Luffy ran out of haki yet again. Because if we did discuss that stuff, then a larger part of the fanbase might have seen it coming. But hey, I mean it's more interesting to debate about the semantics of "Look out!" and "Dodge!" for hundreds of pages instead am I right? If people weren't so salty they could quite clearly see that the point of that scene isn't really about the words but the nuances and implications of it.

Well even now I think the whole running out of haki thing is just a plot device. It creates tension and we get to see some of the other supernova shine, then Luffy will later reveal his cards. Maybe show G5 with more efficient haki usage or something. What I'm getting at is One Piece isn't about power levels. Oda just wants to show cool scenes and symbolism and he'll give quick nerfs and powerups to show them. So if you can't even entertain the thought of things like ZKK you're just going to continue to have a bad time. My thoughts on ZKK? If Oda goes through with killing Kaido then I think ZKK will be very plausible. If he doesn't, Zoro will do significant damage. It can go either way (Just my thoughts on ZKK if you guys are curious about how biased I am on that topic and where I stand on the Zoro wank scale). And the reason why Zoro will play a significant role (and it has nothing to do with powerlevels) has quite clearly been alluded to at length and has been much better outlined than I would be able to do it by users such as @Cinera . His thread if you guys want to check it out. Who knows? Just some food for thought to maybe start discussing other characters.

Then again I'm not one to ruin, the fun... so I guess I'll just join in on the trolling and do a quick

tl;dr :
Remember how people said we might as well give Enma (Oden) to Luffy and have him finish Kaido? Well, it turns out his reserves of haki are so bad he'd be one of those people who would have died if he swung it. :funky:
 

Cinera

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Zoro has had to save Luffy four times:
  • From Mama's Heavenly Fire:
  • From Kaido's Boro Breath:
  • From Mama's Cognac
  • From Kaido's Chomp

Despite this, Zoro:
  • Earned a compliment from Kaido with his Rengoku Oni Giri:
  • Easily deflected Kaido's Demolition Gust:
  • Hiryuu Kaen
    • Put the fear of God in the Yonkou
      • Mama:
      • Kaido:
    • Made them stop underestimating the Supernova after witnessing that same attack:
    • Kaido previously called Law's Gamma Knife a "trick":
    • He called Killer's Scyther Sonic "vexing":
  • Tanked an upper tier technique from a serious Mama;
    • God of Lightning: Tenjin:
  • Significantly hurt Kaido and pushed him to Hybrid form with his mid tier attack (Kokujo Ou Tatsumaki).

All of the above has been in Santoryu and while not fully accustomed to Enma:


Zoro seems to have been the MVP of the fight so far even looking only at his personal accomplishments. When you add that he has been babysitting his captain, there is not really any contest on who has put in the most work.

Said captain has made himself dead weight for the next 10 minutes, so Zoro would be on full time babysitting duty vs two Yonkou.
:lusalty:

I can only imagine how much more damage Zoro would have dealt had Luffy not required his rescues.
:goyea:

Our Grandmaster has been held back from destroying the Yonkou by the need to protect his captain.
:josad:


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Sorry, I saw @Bogard was downplaying Zoro and I got a little annoyed.

As far as we know, Luffy's attacks have done a fat lot of good to Kaido, and he:
  • Had to be rescued 5 times
    • 1 time from Law alone
    • 3 times from Zoro alone
    • 1 time from Zoro with Law's assistance
  • Was chastised by Zoro to not lose focus because they were facing two Yonkou
  • Rendered himself dead weight for 10 minutes

@Bogard if you want to downplay Zoro's accomplishments in this battle, then do so when Luffy has done much more than require Zoro and Law to babysit him.

As things stand, without the requirement to babysit Luffy, Zoro may have already started delivering some much needed ass kicking to the Yonkou.


I wouldn't really want to be downplaying other Supernova if the Supernova I stanned had just been deadweight.
:feelsokeman:
  1. Luffy is not "totally resistant" to Boro Breath. In fact, he got pretty roughed up by the Boro Breath he tanked.
    1. Luffy Before Boro Breath:
    2. Luffy after Boro Breath:
  2. Tanking Boro Breath may have depleted his haki much faster and explain why Boundman didn't even last 10 minutes.
  1. Excluding Red Roc, Luffy's other hits haven't been particularly effective
  2. Luffy needed to be saved on 5 separate occasions
    1. 1 time from Law alone
    2. 3 times from Zoro alone
    3. 1 time from Zoro with Law's assistance
  3. Luffy has made himself dead weight for 10 minutes

As I explain below, Zoro is pretty clearly the MVP, and Luffy has arguably been holding him back:
You minimised Zoro's accomplishments, I didn't say you lied. You can downplay while being factual (as I have just been doing for Luffy).


I don't think Luffy would have gotten KOed, but he was clearly unable to react and would have taken heavy damage in all 5 of those scenarios.


I agree that Luffy has had more aggro, but I'm not sure it's as big as you make it seem.

Attacks directed at the Supernova (from memory)
  • Luffy
    • Kaido
      1. Basic Club Swing
        1. Dodged and countered by Red Roc
      2. Thunder Bagua
        1. Partially dodged
      3. Basic Club Swing
        1. Rescued by Law
      4. Demolition Gust
        1. Dodged and countered with Kong Rifle
      5. Boro Breath
        1. Rescued by Zoro
      6. Boro Breath
        1. Withstood
      7. Dragon Chomp
        • Rescued by Zoro
      8. Large Area Attack (???)
        1. ???
    • Mama
      1. Heavenly Fire
        1. Rescued by Zoro
      2. God of Lightning: Tenjin
        1. Immune by virtue of Devil Fruit
      3. Cognac
        1. Rescued by Zoro
  • Zoro
    • Kaido
      1. Basic Club Swing
        1. Countered with Rengoku Oni Giri
      2. Demolition Gust
        1. Deflected
      3. Large Area Attack (???)
        1. ???
    • Mama
      1. God of Lightning: Tenjin
        1. Withstood
  • Kidd
    • Kaido
      1. Demolition Gust
        1. Withstood
      2. Vortex Wind
        1. ???
      3. Large Area Attack (???)
        1. ???
    • Mama
      1. God of Lightning: Tenjin
        1. Withstood
  • Law
    • Kaido
      1. Demolition Gust
        1. Dodged
      2. Chomp
        1. Dodged
      3. Large Area Attack (???)
        1. ???
    • Mama
      1. God of Lightning: Tenjin
        1. Withstood
  • Killer
    • Kaido
      1. Basic Club Swing
        1. Countered with Beheading Claw
      2. Demolition Gust
        1. Dodged
      3. Dragon Chomp
        1. Rescued by Luffy
      4. Vortex Wind
        1. ???
      5. Large Area Attack (???)
        1. ???
    • Mama
      1. Indra
        1. Withstood
      2. God of Lightning: Tenjin
        1. Withstood

Excluding God of Lightning: Tenjin (immune due to DF ability), Luffy needed to be rescued from Mama's other attacks by Zoro. Against Kaido, he cleanly dodged two attacks, partially dodged one, was rescued for three and withstood one.

Luffy's total confirmed attacks were 10. He was rescued for half of them.

The total confirmed attacks on all Supernova (some double counting due to multi target attacks) is 25.

Luffy has taken around 40% of Yonkou attacks; a plurality, but not the majority I've seen others claiming (@WesMidnight). And he was rescued for half of those attacks.



It's a great attack potency feat, but not a feat relevant to this battle.



Spoilers for all previous attacks (1001 & 1002) did not mention that they damaged Kaido. This may be because this attack did more damage than the others (e.g. drew significant amounts of blood), or the spoiler provider being a Zoro fan.
You would have had an argument except:
  • Zoro saved Luffy four times
  • He has only attacked Kaido three times
    • Two of those attacks were counterattacks in the course of saving Luffy

Zoro has been babysitting Luffy more than dealing damage, so Luffy has been holding him back. Now that Luffy has run out of haki for 10 minutes, Zoro will need to babysit him on overtime as he wouldn't leave the duty of protecting his captain to someone else.


I agree with this. It's not that I don't think Luffy was damaging Kaido, the damage just doesn't seem to have been significant.
@Akai2: does this count for the Spoilers Bingo?
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Why do you keep spreading a fake news ? He wasn't talking about Wano.
Ok my bad and chill out right there
I feel like Oda is being stalling his moment because he has precise plans for the man.

He is probably preparing the character for a trump card the way I see it. Or else we could not explain such passiveness in his demeanor.

Of course it's not impossible that Oda simply didn't want to show him.
Nah, this 10 min thingy is for Kid.
If the man does less work than 3 SN, i just lose hope for him
 
The CP0 coming with a recap by the end of chapter suggest to me the end of the act is near. Infact i'm surprised it didn't end this chapter, so i think next chapter there will be a split to the reverie / marine / shichibukai / sabo events
Blackbeard finally can appear or Marco revealing how powerful Blackbeard was in Payback war to Luffy and telling that BB was stronger than Akainu, Akagami and Mama...
 

Cinera

𝐀𝐬𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐌𝐚𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐧𝐲 𝐏𝐞𝐭
the spoiler thread is a bit uh tense last 24 hrs
Just another iteration of Zoro fans Vs. The World. When you asked, we were in the midst of bodying some Luffy stans.
:goyea:


With Luffy down it’s time for his rival to step up :myman:
Kidd can shine against Mama, but I want Zoro to hold off Kaido until Luffy recovers.


Wait if it covers a large area etc
How are thé sn dodging that
They tanked Mama's upper tier lightning attack (God of Lightning: Tenjin); why can't they tank whatever this attack is?
:choppawhat:


Everyone is on Kid's back but I'm more worried about Law, he used his strongest move and is still the most useless SN. It pains me because he's by far my favorite character out of all the ones present on the roof, I expect more from him.
Nah:
  • Zoro has by far the greatest offensive ability of the Supernova:
    • Hiryuu Kaen put the fear of God in the Yonkou.
  • Zoro has by far the greatest defensive ability of the Supernova. He neutralised:
    • Kaido's Demolition Gust
    • Kaido's Chomp
    • Mama's Heavenly Fire
    • Mama's Cognac
  • Zoro has mobility issues

All Law needs to do is appropriately shambles Zoro to land his upper tier techniques and intercept the Yonkou's attacks, and he would greatly outperform everything Kidd, Killer and Luffy have done.

A single attack of Zoro can do much more damage than 4 named Boundman techniques, and vastly more damage than what Law can even dream of. Law should stop trying to get anywhere with his puny AP and should appropriately leverage the strategic class warhead they have with them.

Zoro is literally a walking Juggernaut. Uber offense and Uber defense in one package, but limited mobility. Give Zoro the mobility he needs, and the Yonkou shall know Pain.


Yeah Zoro been lookin Chad AF but too many wank threads.
Yep, you all should just leave the job of writing Zoro wank essays to me — I'm the best at it anyways.
 
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