You tell me what makes more sense, Oda leaving a support moment for Law ambiguous or Oda leaving the greatest endurance feat for Zoro ambiguous? Because that's exactly what he did in that scene, doesn't matter which side you're arguing for. It just makes less sense to me that he would botch the single greatest tanking feat the way that he did, he essentially offpanelled it.
I don’t anything at all that suggests it’s ambiguous as to what Zoro did. There’s a reason that Zoro is currently in the state he’s in- the attack hit him. He was only able to block it for a second that allowed everyone else to get away. That’s exaclty what Kid and Law said happened.
And Oda did comment on how impressive it was that Zoro did what he did.
Big Mom’s “they got away, eh? Very impressive.” That’s not praise to anyone other than Zoro, because Zoro’s the only reason anyone got away and Big Mom and Kaido both saw that Zoro was the one who blocked the attack.
Kid complimenting Zoro- I think that’s the only time in the entire raid that tsundere king Kid has actually praised anyone
Killer asking Zoro if he could manage, obviosu implication being that he doesn’t really think he could take that attack and fight on.
Law’s statement of “how is he still fighting? That last attack could have shattered every bone in his body!” Which is... really self-explanatory.
And we’ll see what is said when the story gets back to Zoro under the roof, because it’s obvious he’ll need treatment.
Where’s the ambiguity? What suggests that anything other than Zoro tooking the attack took place? How come Oda decided to have everyone on the roof other than Luffy and Kaido talk about Zoro taking the attack and not a single person mentioning the vitally important step of Law ssving Zoro’s life? Is the problem that Zoro doing the thing wasn’t impressive enough, we also need to have Kaido fall over himself wanking the feat as well?
So, Zoro steps in the block the attack to give everyone a chance at living. And Law, who is perfectly capable of saving every single person in that moment that Zoro bought them, decides he's just going to save himself and leave everyone else to die, including the guy who just threw his body in front of an island sized attack so he could live?
"Thanks Zoro! Now fuck off and die."
That's what we are going with?
What I’m going with is what actually happened.
Attack is launched, Oda makes sure to mention through Killer that there’s no way to get out of the way of it
Attack is blocked by Zoro. We see the attack being held off by Zoro in the top panel, Big Mom and Kaido react in the middle, Zoro telling everyone to get out of the way in the bottom
Next set of panels, Oda shows everyone moving. Law is using Shambles cause that’s how he moves himself
Panel after, Zoro can’t hold the block any longer, attack follows through.
Brief view of the environment, Big Mom says it was impressive, then we have Kid giving us the timeframe
Later on, Law confirms that Zoro took the attack, he didn’t just block it
All this paints a pretty obvious picture- the attack was over and done with in seconds. It’s not like Law was standing about for minutes watching Zoro hold off the attack and did diddly squat about it. The attack was launched, Zoro briefly blocked it, everyone panicked and ran, he couldn’t hold the block any longer and the attack wiped him out. That’s what all the dialogue and images show.
Law’s supposed intervention is complete fantasy. It would have been too important a step to have been missed out entirely by Oda, when a single line of dialogue or image could have told us what happened. Law didn’t do it because everything happened so fast, he reacted to save himself. Over and done with in a second, that’s what Kid tells us- brief block, everyone bolts, Zoro gets hit. Hence the should-be broken bones and the coughing up blood and the collapsing in a heal. Nothing suggests it was blocking the attack that did that, Law, the surgeon, said it was the attack hitting him that did it. And didn’t think “good thing I got you out of the way so it didn’t actuaylly hit you, eh?”
It’s not the first time in the raid that Law has only used his fruit to save himself from a wide-spread attack, leaving a heavily disadvantaged Zoro to fend for himself either
If it’s so easy for Law to move everyone around like pieces in a chessboard, why isn’t he doing it there?
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I have to question whether it would even be possible for Law to move Zoro there.
Law literally just told us just before Hakai what everyone should have known- strong Haki blocks Law’s powers. That’s why he can’t move the Yonko about.
Do people not think that at that moment Zoro is using every ounce of his Haki to block Hakai? Is there any reason to think that Law could move Zoro in that state? Zoro’s got better Haki than Law does anyway- Haki has never been emphasised as a particular skill of Law’s, Zoro on the other hand has all three forms and is capable of permanantly wounding Kaido using it- and if Haki blooms in extreme circumstances, it must have blooming a hell of lot there.
The argument sucks, whatever way I look at it. Non existent scenes, non existent dialogue, questions over wheter it’s even possible for Law to do it. All the panels and the dialogue support Zoro blocking the attack for a second, getting hit, Law does zilch.