General & Others Feats never mattered. Stop it
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Power Scaling is that hard?
You sure?
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Oda tells the reader that Zoro is just fucking around and once the leash was off, this happened:
Picking the worst examples. I've rarely ever seen a shonen author be so aware of what their characters should be capable off in their specific power system. Oda gives excuses over excuses to the fans when a character isn't performing as he's expected to. Panel above is the perfect example.
Oda tells the reader that Zoro is just fucking around and once the leash was off, this happened:
Oda tells the reader that Zoro is just fucking around and once the leash was off, this happened:
Picking the worst examples. I've rarely ever seen a shonen author be so aware of what their characters should be capable off in their specific power system. Oda gives excuses over excuses to the fans when a character isn't performing as he's expected to. Panel above is the perfect example.
Oda tells the reader that Zoro is just fucking around and once the leash was off, this happened:
Oda tells the reader that Zoro is just fucking around and once the leash was off, this happened:
? That’s not what ha
Same as with Lucci Zoro was trying to end the fight as soon as he could due to how dire the situation was. Tho in both cases he needed an extra boost to finally land an attack aka Kiku’s arm and Sanji’s insult
Why ignore the fact that Fujitora handled a weaker attack than Denjiro handled but worse despite being immensely stronger
That argument makes no sense at all tbh. Especially when even early on in the story we weren’t getting naval battles. The closest we get is just characters directing destroying ships
Oda clearly cares a lot about power scaling but he clearly never cared about feats the same way power scalers do
Again Zoro and Sanji or Kid and Law or Shanks and Blackbeard or Rayleigh and Gaban are clear examples of Oda caring about power scaling but not about feats
The only time feats “matter” is when those feats are tied to a statement. Like “oh character A is even stronger or faster or more durable or has even more stamina or whatever than character B”
But even then that doesn’t matter to much because having a specific better ability doesn’t change overall portrayal. Like Gaban likely has better observation haki than Rayleigh which is cool and all that but doesn’t change anything
Again Zoro and Sanji or Kid and Law or Shanks and Blackbeard or Rayleigh and Gaban are clear examples of Oda caring about power scaling but not about feats
The only time feats “matter” is when those feats are tied to a statement. Like “oh character A is even stronger or faster or more durable or has even more stamina or whatever than character B”
But even then that doesn’t matter to much because having a specific better ability doesn’t change overall portrayal. Like Gaban likely has better observation haki than Rayleigh which is cool and all that but doesn’t change anything
Close. That's not scaling, that's narrative. We know that Rayleigh would be the one directly under Roger because the story tells us and it's how the characters see him, even if it's arguable. Although we also know that who's stronger between them actually doesn't matter.
The problem with scaling is that you put other things to scale. Like how you then generalize it to Sanji and Zoro even though they're different characters.
The problem with scaling is that you put other things to scale. Like how you then generalize it to Sanji and Zoro even though they're different characters.