Controversial Powerscalers don't understand One Piece

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#62
Luffy has advanced coc
Advanced coa
Advanced coo

Zoro has Advanced coc
Advanced coa


Sanji has ....
Basic haki


But Doriki !
That's what I was talking about LMAO.
Going to Deep at Power scaling without looking at narrative.

Kaido >>>> King > Queen.

Zoro Is more close to Sanji then to Luffy.
And Sanji has esoskeleton on top of his haki which Is not that bad as you want It to be.
 
#63
Edit : Because some people don't seem to differenciate narrative talk and powerscalling :



Most powerscalers (no matter whom they consider their fave, but it's mostly prevalent among Zoro and Mihawk fans as far as I can tell) don't understand how Oda sees the power dynamics in the crew, not even AFTER he wrote a whole explanation for them back in Enies Lobby with the Doriki.

Lucci : 4 000
Kaku : 2 200
Jabura : 2 180

The other ones are irrelevant here. What's matter is the following facts : the Doriki are calculated in base human form, meaning that Jabura is slightly below Kaku and Lucci extremely ahead of both.

Another fact is that carnivorous Zoans are said to be better suited for battle. Wether or not you consider it a truth or more of rumor, it doesn't change the fact that gaining claws and fangs to fight make it easier to empower the fighting-style of a non-swordman. The gap between transformed Kaku and Jabura thus remains largely the same, both displaying abilities they couldn't or wouldn't use in base form.

Therefore, Enies Lobby was an attempt - which somehow failed because of his readership's lack of comprehension, clearly - by Oda to explains how the future arc's battle would be decided and what it meant for the power dynamic in the crew's top fighters. Luffy fight the strongest, Zoro the 2nd strongest (who is serious), Sanji the third strongest (who is more of a clown/funny character, at least design wise). It was something he had done in Alabasta, kind of muddled by playing with in Skypiea but then always followed in the arcs which have followed Enies Lobby.

It doesn't mean, however, that each arc is a carbon copy of the others but that Oda has a very simple formula he uses, which can be summed as such : Luffy >>> Zoro >= Sanji.

Other characters may be extremely close to them (such as Jinbe currently) but Oda's goal is to have Luffy fight the strongest member of the opposite crew, Zoro the second strongest and Sanji the third strongest. Hence why in Wano Law and Kidd fought with Big Mom, who was the strongest member of another crew, distinct from the Beast Pirates.

Even the fabled Rooftop Five had a clear difference between the captains, who were outclassed but largely able to held their own against two Emperors, and the two vice-captains who were wheezing and panting long before the others, because while they are extremely powerful themselves, they simply don't play in the same legue than Luffy, Kidd and Law.

You could argue that the New World arcs haven't been like that, and you would be both right and wrong. Right because, indeed, on several occasions, Sanji didn't fight the third strongest (Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, Whole Cake Island). However, you'd be wrong because out of those, Sanji fought the strongest one for a time on Punk Hazard (Vergo), with the results that we know - for fairness sake, I must say I'm pretty confident he wouldn't have had such a bad showing if his body hadn't been severely damaged before hand when Nami had it -, was absent from Dressrosa when the fight started and had to flee Totto Land with half the crew, meaning that since Fishman Island, Wano was the first arc with a full crew (Punk Hazard being a mini-arc where there simply wasn't enough opponents for the crew, I don't consider it a full arc, kind of like Zou but with battles, if you will).

And in Wano, again, the formula was respected : Luffy fought Kaido (who was far stronger than King and Queen), Zoro fought the serious one and Sanji the funny one.

Anyone willing to read One Piece without preconception will of course notice that it wasn't always the case. At first, Zoro was more clearly Luffy's equal (just look at Whiskey Peak, the whole fight with Mihawk being basically Zoro's Shanks, going as far as being depicted as a "friend" of Shanks, etc.). Early arcs even had some surprising twist and turns (Hacchi being probably weaker than Kuroobi - or at least far more funny than the latter, which in nowadays' arcs would make him an opponent for Sanji). However, by Little Garden, another arc largely designed to highlight this rivalry, was probably the moment Oda decided that Zoro and Sanji would be real rivals, just like Dorry and Broggy.

But what about the bounties ?

The truth of the matter is that it isn't the exact numbers on it which matters (otherwise Zoro would have been weaker than Robin from Alabasta to Enies Lobby, or than Sanji during Wano) but rather a matter of range. Is your bounty in the low decades ? You're super weak, except if you're a rookie starting in East Blue. It's in the high decades/reach a hundred or even several on Paradise ? You're somewhat strong for a pirate on the first part of Grand Line. If you're bounty is between 500 000 000 and 1 billion you are already a legendary pirate. Above, you're in a very select club of monsters who could pretend to someday become an Emperor.

Above 2 billion, you are an Emperor or at least on their level in term of fighting abilities (Buggy not being concerned by it, of course).

Does it mean that Oda is great or terrible because he clings to this formula and makes sure it remains true no matter what power-ups are needed by the characters for it to remain in place ? The answer depends on everyone's opinion about what the core of One Piece is. For me, it's not the combat so the crew's dynamics remaining largely the same is perfect for me. For someone who considers battles to be the main attraction of One Piece, of course the answer would be vastly different.

But it doesn't change the fact that most discussions about powerscalling or some theories (ZKK most notably but it isn't the only one) can be pretty firmly debunked when one consider One Piece through those very simple lenses : Luffy >>> Zoro >= Sanji.
Zoro had worse feats than sanji in the beginning.

Zoro was playing catch up. For example

-Zoro couldn't carry luffy in a small cage

-Sanji was casually kicking aside huge boats with mounted canons. Don krieg struggled to even pick it up.

-Zoro moved faster than eyesight for fodder in whiskey peak

-sanji did this in his intro

-zoro displayed coa haki in alabasta

-sanji showed coo haki in little garden

Pre ts showed sanji as his real rival. Let's not lie to people.
 
#64
In a simple way. Luffy > Zoro > Sanji was always the case and anybody who believes this will change is out of his mind.

The real problem is that there are few Zoro fans who trully believes that he is equal to Luffy but the majority of Sanji fans cannot accept the fact that he will be in the 3rd place in the crew no matter what and they desperately trying to downgrade Zoro's opponents.
Sanji Will Always be Number 3.
But Zoro and Sanji's gap Will Always be less than the One between Luffy and Zoro and this arc comfirmed It.

Yonko >>> a commander like King, even feats that you like confirm It.
Greenbull destroyed King + Queen with ease, Kaido would do exactly the same or even with less difficulty.
Luffy defeated Kaido, Zoro defeated King and Sanji defeated Queen.
Queen can keep up with King as shown by their fight against Marco, Marco considers both strong opponent worthy of 1+ bilion bounty, even Zoro when had to choice between the root supervised by Queen and the One by King said that both of them weren't Easy at all.
King cannot keep up with Kaido, the villain close to Kaido and considered a 2nd Kaido was Big Mom Who was defeated by Luffy's rivals.
 
#66
Think the main problem with powerscaling is that people go to deep in it.

Of course there's some "slots" of Power where certain characteres fit, the nonsense start when some of u guys try to use numbers to scale or enter those endless topics about who beat who and start this "X high/mid/low-diff Y".



Its clear that there's a "top tier slot" with characteres like Kaido, BM, Shanks, Mihawk, Admirals and Luffy in it, and that there's another "slot" bellow with Zoro, King, Katakuri, Marco, etc and that characteres from the second cant beat the ones from the first, but when the comparisson is between characteres inside the "same tier" its much more about the plot them the strengt of the character.



On the Luffy, Zoro, Sanji thing, its obvious that Luffy is much stronger, than Zoro in second and Sanji in a close third, just look the enemies Oda make for the three since Alabasta and u can see it.
 
#68
Facts, I don't get your title since this Is Power scaling but you explained well the impression you have while reading It, what Oda wants to tell.
It's so clear, but the one Who separate narrative/portray from Power scaling Will start Say stuff like "Zoro has adv. CoC and then this feat, this other feat, Kidd doesn't"
Kidd Is clearly above Zoro, Oda made a clear hierarchy.

Luffy -> defeating a Yonko, the main one of the saga alone
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Kidd/Law -> the rivals of Luffy taking out the other Yonko together
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Zoro -> taking out the right hand man of the main Yonko, the strongest calamity
Sanji -> taking out the other calamity, the second strongest, which portray Is more similar than King than to Jack (Who was bullied by both)
This portray of Zoro and Sanji Is clear, wings of pirate King, Franky saying "Zoro and Sanji are facing calamities" while no other did so.
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Jinbe -> fought the strongest Tobi toppo and defeated with ease
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Robin fought a strong Tobi roppo
Franky same as Robin
Why can't Kidd be more narratively important for the climax here and simply have more narrative impact as well as role to play without being stronger than Zoro? :choppawhat:

It seems like a lot of people who use same argument as yours try to say how "Power scalers" look too much into feats and whatnot trying to make everything about scaling, etc, but aren't you doing the same?

You're looking at a hierarchy and you're dumbing it down to "Oda did this to show us who is stronger" all while ignoring other aspects such as those three being the captains and main three leaders of new era, bringing down the former two biggest Yonkos, ushering in the next generation, taking theirs to the big stage now, etc, etc.

Those who take things deep can be bad, but those who take everything presented as surface level to "THIS IS POWER WHICH ODA DREW TO SHOW STRONK, YES IT'S TRUE!" aren't doing any better either lol
 
#69
Sanji Will Always be Number 3.
But Zoro and Sanji's gap Will Always be less than the One between Luffy and Zoro and this arc comfirmed It.

Yonko >>> a commander like King, even feats that you like confirm It.
Greenbull destroyed King + Queen with ease, Kaido would do exactly the same or even with less difficulty.
Luffy defeated Kaido, Zoro defeated King and Sanji defeated Queen.
Queen can keep up with King as shown by their fight against Marco, Marco considers both strong opponent worthy of 1+ bilion bounty, even Zoro when had to choice between the root supervised by Queen and the One by King said that both of them weren't Easy at all.
King cannot keep up with Kaido, the villain close to Kaido and considered a 2nd Kaido was Big Mom Who was defeated by Luffy's rivals.
No need to write an essay about how close you think Sanji is to Zoro.

I never said in my post anything about the gap between any of them.
 
#74
Big Mom was treated as a Joke, she still stomps Crocodile who was treated serious without any gags. The main character himself is treated with gags, so not sure what the point of bringing that up even is.
Except big moms strength as a character was hyped up many times :risitameh:

The claim is that the giraffe fruit is physically stronger than the leopard and wolf fruit even tho that was never stated.

This is what was said about it
Zoro: (clunk...)
I see.
It's his reach... centrifugal force enhances the power from his huge body,
making the cut of his attacks far sharper and deeper.
 
#75
You say powerscalers don't understand One Piece, but then make a thread about powerlevels. That doesn't make any sense.

From a narrative point of view if you ignore the "powerlevel".

Chapter 5: "The Pirate King & The Master Swordsman". Only crewmate Luffy actually sought out for strength.

Arlong park: Arlong is scared of Zoro's potential because of his face when facing death

Loguetown: Smoker is reminded of the PK when seeing Luffy's face when facing death. Luffy's luck is tested when a lightening bolt comes down with the sword only inches away from his neck. Zoro's luck is tested when he swing the sword up and it just goes around his arm instead of cutting it off clean. Just coincidence guys!!!!!

Post-Arlong: Wait a minute, the guy who luffy said he's surpass in chapter 1 & the guy who Zoro said he's surpass in Baratie... were rivals?

Whiskey Peak: Both Tie

Water 7: Both get put into similar situations that gain similar reactions with the wall stuck & chimney

Ennis Lobby: Zoro being mistakened as the Captain

Ennis Lobby fights: Zoro beats Lucci's inferior Kaku in a mid-diff fight. Luffy vs Lucci goes to a point where Luffy doesn't even win without Franky's interference at the start, and even then went to the point Luffy can't stand up. That shits on the entire "doriki" point of view.

Thriller Bark: Zoro gets his willpower tested by Kuma (Dragon's underling) with enduring all of Luffy's pain, where he's got only a tiny chance of making it out alive.

Saboady: Oh dang Zoro was going to cut up a Celestial Dragon if Bonney didn't step in. Oh dang Luffy punched a Celestial Dragon because nobody came to stop him like Bonney. Pure coincidence. Oh my Zoro isn't treated as your typical right hand man like Killer & Bepo, but instead it's Sanji.

Impel Down: Luffy gets his willpower tested where he's only got a very small chance in making it out alive by another one of Dragon's subordinates, Ivankov.

Timeskip: Whoa both of their training involves directly with learning of Haki. Where they're fighting superior opponent(s) while doing it.

FMI: Whoa Luffy faced off against Zoro's final opponent, and Zoro faced off against Luffy's final opponent before the final fights?

Post-FMI: Is that Zoro challenging Luffy to a competition?

Dressrosa: Is that Zoro saying Luffy should've told him about the tournament, where he would've had to compete against Luffy? Is that Luffy & Zoro who go up against the admiral in the arc at different moments of time?

Start of Wano: Oh Luffy & Zoro having side by side speed moment, sick. Both get their "duo time" before pairing up with the entire squad again.

Wano end of Act 2: Oh wow do my eyes deceive me, it's Zoro & Luffy training near each other related to Haki mastery.. where if they master it, they'd be able to damage Kaido. NO! It certainly can't be!!!

Rooftop of Wano Act 3: Luffy & Zoro doing teamwork in their rooftop fight. Zoro landing the biggest blow on Kaido in that 5 vs 2?! Zoro taking on the biggest attack from the emperors in that 5 vs 2?! It certainly can't be!

Post-Rooftop of Wano act 3: Zoro faces an opponent who's even harder to damage than Kaido?! And despite his condition he manages to cut him up after he gains the power to do it?! Wait a minute, I wonder what would've happened if Zoro got the "reset" against Kaido like Luffy did multiple times, where now he's able to 1 shot somebody who has much more harder to damage than Kaido, when the only reason he struggled against Kaido was because he couldn't damage him properly. I wonder what would happen now.

End of Wano act 3: IT CAN'T BE!!.. Zoro & Luffy are out together side by side for the same amount of time?! Oh no this doesn't mean anything at all.
:usoprice:


You can't talk about narrative and powerscaler non-sense, and then make a claim like Luffy >>>> Zoro, which goes against the very narrative Oda has continued to establish since start of the series. That The Pirate King & The Master Swordsman will always be near each other.

Portrayal / narrative is the last thing you want to use if you want to claim Luffy >>> Zoro, stick to "feats only" for that.
Ouch
 
#76
Why can't Kidd be more narratively important for the climax here and simply have more narrative impact as well as role to play without being stronger than Zoro? :choppawhat:

It seems like a lot of people who use same argument as yours try to say how "Power scalers" look too much into feats and whatnot trying to make everything about scaling, etc, but aren't you doing the same?

You're looking at a hierarchy and you're dumbing it down to "Oda did this to show us who is stronger" all while ignoring other aspects such as those three being the captains and main three leaders of new era, bringing down the former two biggest Yonkos, ushering in the next generation, taking theirs to the big stage now, etc, etc.

Those who take things deep can be bad, but those who take everything presented as surface level to "THIS IS POWER WHICH ODA DREW TO SHOW STRONK, YES IT'S TRUE!" aren't doing any better either lol
Kidd and Law being the captains of the new era Is already the thing that should make you understand why Zoro can't be stronger than them.
Their narrative purpose as you said, their role already puts them above of Zoro.
Saying not, it's like saying that Rayleigh was above Shiki or Whitebeard.
 
#77
Kidd and Law being the captains of the new era Is already the thing that should make you understand why Zoro can't be stronger than them.
Their narrative purpose as you said, their role already puts them above of Zoro.
Saying not, it's like saying that Rayleigh was above Shiki or Whitebeard.
Again, why are you dumbing down the entire narrative to strength and power? Their narrative roles might be higher, their impact on this respective arc might be higher, but that has nothing to do with pure strength or standing. Zoro is the only one among the three who has confirmed peak above a Yonko with huge portrayal in his favor.

And Kidd/Law are definitely not Luffy's WB, either.

For instance, Smoker's narrative role was higher than Zoro during PH, yet no way in fuck anyone can say PH Smoker was stronger than Zoro.

On another, related note, no matter how much we nitpick fighting style or whatever constitutes a swordsman fight, Law being officially known as swordsman is a fact. Law considering himself one is likely, too, otherwise he wouldn't be dubbed as such by Oda. And to think that Zoro will be weak enough to be defeated by another individual who calls themselves a swordsman come EoS is absurd to begin with.

At the end of the day, even with all that aside, you're just taking your interpretation of their narrative importance and role and turning it purely into strength. Neither Kidd nor Law need to be stronger than Zoro to fulfill the role given to them.

On another note, same goes for opponent arguments. Just because opponents have big gaps, doesn't mean characters will, too. EL Lucci and Kaku had big gaps. After EL, Yellow DB still put Zoro as someone comparable to Luffy. And this is the only book that has Oda's direct backing and personal writing confirmed as per SBS.
 
#78
Edit : Because some people don't seem to differenciate narrative talk and powerscalling :



Most powerscalers (no matter whom they consider their fave, but it's mostly prevalent among Zoro and Mihawk fans as far as I can tell) don't understand how Oda sees the power dynamics in the crew, not even AFTER he wrote a whole explanation for them back in Enies Lobby with the Doriki.

Lucci : 4 000
Kaku : 2 200
Jabura : 2 180

The other ones are irrelevant here. What's matter is the following facts : the Doriki are calculated in base human form, meaning that Jabura is slightly below Kaku and Lucci extremely ahead of both.

Another fact is that carnivorous Zoans are said to be better suited for battle. Wether or not you consider it a truth or more of rumor, it doesn't change the fact that gaining claws and fangs to fight make it easier to empower the fighting-style of a non-swordman. The gap between transformed Kaku and Jabura thus remains largely the same, both displaying abilities they couldn't or wouldn't use in base form.

Therefore, Enies Lobby was an attempt - which somehow failed because of his readership's lack of comprehension, clearly - by Oda to explains how the future arc's battle would be decided and what it meant for the power dynamic in the crew's top fighters. Luffy fight the strongest, Zoro the 2nd strongest (who is serious), Sanji the third strongest (who is more of a clown/funny character, at least design wise). It was something he had done in Alabasta, kind of muddled by playing with in Skypiea but then always followed in the arcs which have followed Enies Lobby.

It doesn't mean, however, that each arc is a carbon copy of the others but that Oda has a very simple formula he uses, which can be summed as such : Luffy >>> Zoro >= Sanji.

Other characters may be extremely close to them (such as Jinbe currently) but Oda's goal is to have Luffy fight the strongest member of the opposite crew, Zoro the second strongest and Sanji the third strongest. Hence why in Wano Law and Kidd fought with Big Mom, who was the strongest member of another crew, distinct from the Beast Pirates.

Even the fabled Rooftop Five had a clear difference between the captains, who were outclassed but largely able to held their own against two Emperors, and the two vice-captains who were wheezing and panting long before the others, because while they are extremely powerful themselves, they simply don't play in the same legue than Luffy, Kidd and Law.

You could argue that the New World arcs haven't been like that, and you would be both right and wrong. Right because, indeed, on several occasions, Sanji didn't fight the third strongest (Punk Hazard, Dressrosa, Whole Cake Island). However, you'd be wrong because out of those, Sanji fought the strongest one for a time on Punk Hazard (Vergo), with the results that we know - for fairness sake, I must say I'm pretty confident he wouldn't have had such a bad showing if his body hadn't been severely damaged before hand when Nami had it -, was absent from Dressrosa when the fight started and had to flee Totto Land with half the crew, meaning that since Fishman Island, Wano was the first arc with a full crew (Punk Hazard being a mini-arc where there simply wasn't enough opponents for the crew, I don't consider it a full arc, kind of like Zou but with battles, if you will).

And in Wano, again, the formula was respected : Luffy fought Kaido (who was far stronger than King and Queen), Zoro fought the serious one and Sanji the funny one.

Anyone willing to read One Piece without preconception will of course notice that it wasn't always the case. At first, Zoro was more clearly Luffy's equal (just look at Whiskey Peak, the whole fight with Mihawk being basically Zoro's Shanks, going as far as being depicted as a "friend" of Shanks, etc.). Early arcs even had some surprising twist and turns (Hacchi being probably weaker than Kuroobi - or at least far more funny than the latter, which in nowadays' arcs would make him an opponent for Sanji). However, by Little Garden, another arc largely designed to highlight this rivalry, was probably the moment Oda decided that Zoro and Sanji would be real rivals, just like Dorry and Broggy.

But what about the bounties ?

The truth of the matter is that it isn't the exact numbers on it which matters (otherwise Zoro would have been weaker than Robin from Alabasta to Enies Lobby, or than Sanji during Wano) but rather a matter of range. Is your bounty in the low decades ? You're super weak, except if you're a rookie starting in East Blue. It's in the high decades/reach a hundred or even several on Paradise ? You're somewhat strong for a pirate on the first part of Grand Line. If you're bounty is between 500 000 000 and 1 billion you are already a legendary pirate. Above, you're in a very select club of monsters who could pretend to someday become an Emperor.

Above 2 billion, you are an Emperor or at least on their level in term of fighting abilities (Buggy not being concerned by it, of course).

Does it mean that Oda is great or terrible because he clings to this formula and makes sure it remains true no matter what power-ups are needed by the characters for it to remain in place ? The answer depends on everyone's opinion about what the core of One Piece is. For me, it's not the combat so the crew's dynamics remaining largely the same is perfect for me. For someone who considers battles to be the main attraction of One Piece, of course the answer would be vastly different.

But it doesn't change the fact that most discussions about powerscalling or some theories (ZKK most notably but it isn't the only one) can be pretty firmly debunked when one consider One Piece through those very simple lenses : Luffy >>> Zoro >= Sanji.
There are multiple problems with this.

1. whiskey peak which- no matter how we look at it- doesn't display that same gap despite you claiming that it's consistent.

2. databooks which again do not support your claim but portray the same thing as in whiskey peak which is Luffy=Zoro>Sanji.
 
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