Before the drop of this chapter, there was a lot of discussion on Zoro vs Shamrock or Luffy vs Shamrock. Being supposedly the boss of the arc many speculated that it would be Luffy who will fight Shamrock instead of Zoro. Then the spoilers/hints dropped and the Cerberus thing made headlines with who it might belong to (Loki or Shamrock) and how it might effect the matchups. Then we get the detailed spoilers and we learn that Cerberus is an awakened mythical zoan fed to Shamrocks sword. At this point it makes a lot more sense for Zoro to fight Shamrock instead of Luffy. Reasons:
Swordsman (Luffy has barely if ever fought against swordsmen opponents)
Shanks Twin (Surpassing Shanks before being able to challenge Mihawk)
Cerberus (Guardian of Hell vs King of Hell)
3 sword style vs 3 sword heads
Samurai vs Knight
At this point it seems like Sham is a tailored opponent for Zoro and not Luffy. There is a problem though and I already said this in the spoiler thread. It increases Zoros confirmed fights. Shiryu (due to BB), Venus (due to Kitetsu) and Mihawk (final fight) are 99% confirmed fights for Zoro. But if we add Shamrock to the list too then it is already difficult to fit the previous three fights into expected arcs. We jump from 3 arcs for each opponent to 4 arcs and the pace of the story doesnt suggest we will have 3 arcs let alone 4, we are already in the final saga.
There have been arcs where Zoro has defeated multiple opponents in the same arc but when you take into account the importance of the chars in question it seems very hard that they will be sacrificed like that. I mean the least impressive from the 4 is Shiryu atm but due to BB association you can bet how important he will be. Off the top of my head we have had Zoro defeat Braham and Ohm I think in Skypiea, then Ryuma and Oars fight and then Kuma (not exactly the type of fights) in TB. In Wano he had quite a few but none of the earlier defeated chars were as important to the story or narrative as the 4 guys are.
So here comes the twist, Zoro will not fight Shamrock. Rather the BBPs will somehow invade MG and beat the HK or they will come at the end of some battle where Shiryu will be able to feed the Cerberus DF to his sword and Zoro will fight Shiryu with two DFs like many have suggested before. This will parallel quite a few things. Firstly Shiryu and BB being the two guys with multiple DFs (BB might actually get three). Shiryu will also get two DFs which are associated with BB previously (Invis was suggested for BB before while the 3 heads of Cerberus for BB being able to have multiple DFs etc.). It will also fit perfectly with his head jailer theme by having the guardian of hell as his DF. An invisible swordsman who can not be touched due to becoming nothing with an awakened mythic zoan sword which can attack from three sides simultaneously and which may also be hidden.
@nik87 @Fleet Leader Fenaker @HA001 @mly90 @CbShadow @Kōri no kokyū etc.
Swordsman (Luffy has barely if ever fought against swordsmen opponents)
Shanks Twin (Surpassing Shanks before being able to challenge Mihawk)
Cerberus (Guardian of Hell vs King of Hell)
3 sword style vs 3 sword heads
Samurai vs Knight
At this point it seems like Sham is a tailored opponent for Zoro and not Luffy. There is a problem though and I already said this in the spoiler thread. It increases Zoros confirmed fights. Shiryu (due to BB), Venus (due to Kitetsu) and Mihawk (final fight) are 99% confirmed fights for Zoro. But if we add Shamrock to the list too then it is already difficult to fit the previous three fights into expected arcs. We jump from 3 arcs for each opponent to 4 arcs and the pace of the story doesnt suggest we will have 3 arcs let alone 4, we are already in the final saga.
There have been arcs where Zoro has defeated multiple opponents in the same arc but when you take into account the importance of the chars in question it seems very hard that they will be sacrificed like that. I mean the least impressive from the 4 is Shiryu atm but due to BB association you can bet how important he will be. Off the top of my head we have had Zoro defeat Braham and Ohm I think in Skypiea, then Ryuma and Oars fight and then Kuma (not exactly the type of fights) in TB. In Wano he had quite a few but none of the earlier defeated chars were as important to the story or narrative as the 4 guys are.
So here comes the twist, Zoro will not fight Shamrock. Rather the BBPs will somehow invade MG and beat the HK or they will come at the end of some battle where Shiryu will be able to feed the Cerberus DF to his sword and Zoro will fight Shiryu with two DFs like many have suggested before. This will parallel quite a few things. Firstly Shiryu and BB being the two guys with multiple DFs (BB might actually get three). Shiryu will also get two DFs which are associated with BB previously (Invis was suggested for BB before while the 3 heads of Cerberus for BB being able to have multiple DFs etc.). It will also fit perfectly with his head jailer theme by having the guardian of hell as his DF. An invisible swordsman who can not be touched due to becoming nothing with an awakened mythic zoan sword which can attack from three sides simultaneously and which may also be hidden.
@nik87 @Fleet Leader Fenaker @HA001 @mly90 @CbShadow @Kōri no kokyū etc.
