Character Discussion Winners and Losers of God Valley

This flashback convinces me that Oda thinks Rayleigh is the coolest guy ever, which was already kind of obvious, but he didn't necessarily come across as that *strong*, though.
Being ‘cool’ defn to Oda is blueball the chick who’s liked you for years until she runs off to an island with whole bunch of simps

Continue to blue ball her for ‘I don’t wanna be tied down’ nonsense

Leave her missing for a whole year doing jackshit

Then get carried by your captain who faces the strongest rocks subordinate for you on the way to saving her

Oda tries way too hard for Runleigh tbh. Old Ray and prime him feel like completely different personalities with nothing overlap
 
Being ‘cool’ defn to Oda is blueball the chick who’s liked you for years until she runs off to an island with whole bunch of simps

Continue to blue ball her for ‘I don’t wanna be tied down’ nonsense

Leave her missing for a whole year doing jackshit

Then get carried by your captain who faces the strongest rocks subordinate for you on the way to saving her

Oda tries way too hard for Runleigh tbh. Old Ray and prime him feel like completely different personalities with nothing overlap
Yeah I mean, it comes off across as a highschool movie romance plot, just everyone is in their 30s.

I just mean Oda thinks of Rayleigh as the number 1 aura farmer. More so then Roger and Garp
 
Winners:

  1. Imu
  2. Xebec
  3. Garp (power scaling wise)
  4. Dragon (character wise)
  5. Kaido
  6. Whitebeard (Power scaling)

Losers:

  1. Garling (Lol)
  2. Holy Knights
  3. Roger (Nothing special , failed to separate himself from other legends of his era)

Neutral or slightly negative/positive:

Ray , Gaban , Shiki ,Big Mom

I will not count rest of rocks pirates because personally I had no expectations from them.
I'd put Roger in the W category and Garp powerscaling & character wise.
I had mixed thoughts about Garp before the last few chapters regarding his moral compass, now he stands more firmly among the good guys for me.
 
Yonko haters too stupid to realize that this entire flashback is to hype Imu/DR, not Xebec, who was made Imu's bitch after trash talking him.

After the flashback we'll go back to the demons and deal with Imu/DR. Xebec is just a hypetool casualty.
 
I'd put Roger in the W category and Garp powerscaling & character wise.
I had mixed thoughts about Garp before the last few chapters regarding his moral compass, now he stands more firmly among the good guys for me.
Nah roger is fraud for me. Bozo failed to separate himself from other legends like garp or WB. He didn't show any new level of haki either. He looked mid from what my expectations of him where.
 
Yonko haters too stupid to realize that this entire flashback is to hype Imu/DR, not Xebec, who was made Imu's bitch after trash talking him.
- Blackbeard's daddy reveal and surprise, surprise it's the legendary Rocks D. Xebec
- Davy Jones reveal
- Who scares you most ? Joyboy or Davy Jones

Oda basically revealed that Joyboy/Davy are the most important characters, you somehow believed that the main point of the flashback was DR and you have the audacity to call "Yonko haters" idiots.
 
Imu, Rocks, Roger, Garp, Kuma, Dragon are my winners, Garling and the knights are all losers right now. I’m assuming Oda wants to highlight these celestials later on but I’d expect Garling to flex a little bit but at least he orchestrated the events pretty much after all he isn’t even supreme commander yet so maybe I can give him some grace but it’s not like he’s a teen his agemates are all out performing him. The other Roger/Rocks pirates don’t win or lose they were pretty much cameos, Kaido and Big Mom had some good stuff but there were bigger winners for sure.
 
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