Spoiler One Piece Chapter Spoiler 1195 Spoilers Discussion

Tbh a big part of the problem is that Oda goes way over the top with making gag characters like Sommers look much weaker than they should be, just for the sake of some (not very funny) comedy. I mean how tf does Sommers go from casually blocking a KoH Dragon Damnation to getting casually treated like a training dummy by Zoro? Why does he no longer have the reaction speed to block and parry Zoro’s attacks? Was Zoro just randomly moving at only like 10% of his normal speed when he was using his strongest known attack, which costs a lot of Haki for him to use?
Thats cause that was a direct clash that used Sword ability to overpower. What Zoro did last chapter was just blitz him cause he way faster than him.
 
- Characters pointing out that HKs are bums

- They got significant power boost with Omen and legendary weapons.

- Sommers overpowering Zoro's strongest/2d strongest attack to date.

- Somehow still getting low diffed by even CoCless Zoro.

I genuinely do not understand why Oda even bothered giving Sommers that DD feat atp.
 
Thing is, Sommers was a fun antagonist.
Having him be simply aura farming material for Zoro is just lame. Same thing could have been accomplished with Killingham.
Would much rather have Sommers vs Sanji still.
:kayneshrug:
Because the thing is, the HKs legit fell flat. The fact that they are mere training tools when Imu himself is in the island facing off Luffy feels even more lame.
HKs flexed on random island giants, some giant teachers, and then Gunko rekt the non-M3 SHs. that's it. Everywhere else they fell flat.
Even GunkImu fell flat.
Wings get scraps. Non-M3 SHs dont even get that.
It's kinda annoying. Why bother having a giant protagonist cast if only the MC matters?
Sommers was funny, I'll give him that.

The point is that ever since Harald turned Elbaph “woke” Imu has lost respect for them and their warrior spirit. He was easily going to succeed by recreating what happened 800 years ago by taking their children. Same thing with the HKs, relying on manipulation tactics and Imu’s dominance has dulled their blade. This is the arc where Zoro and Sanji are essentially confirmed to be worthy PK wings, so I’d be disappointed if they weren’t able to absolutely neg the HKs at this point in the story. They should be around prime Rayleigh and Gaban levels by now. Basically, unless you’re Kaido/Imu level, you’re not getting past Zoro or Sanji. We’re only like two arcs away from the Final War lol
 
Seriously tho,trolling aside. How are you not annoyed with oda clearly delaying any in story progress until chapter 1200? It's actually insane at this point. Oda didn't even try to start the post ts at chapter 600, but he's delaying some lore reveal until that point...
I need to see the full chapter first before judging the pacing. I don’t think Oda is intentionally dragging things out just to hit Chapter 1200. There are 5–6 concurrent subplots that all need to simultaneously move from Point A to Point B so they can converge and wrap up around the same time (around 10-15 chapters from now when the arc ends).

So in theory, I understand why we’re getting chapters like this. I’d rather judge the pacing once we can see how everything fits together.
 
- Characters pointing out that HKs are bums

- They got significant power boost with Omen and legendary weapons.

- Sommers overpowering Zoro's strongest/2d strongest attack to date.

- Somehow still getting low diffed by even CoCless Zoro.

I genuinely do not understand why Oda even bothered giving Sommers that DD feat atp.
Such a weird writing decision to randomly give him a crazy feat like that and then essentially present him as a fodder.
 
Thing is, Sommers was a fun antagonist.
Having him be simply aura farming material for Zoro is just lame. Same thing could have been accomplished with Killingham.
Would much rather have Sommers vs Sanji still.
:kayneshrug:
Because the thing is, the HKs legit fell flat. The fact that they are mere training tools when Imu himself is in the island facing off Luffy feels even more lame.
HKs flexed on random island giants, some giant teachers, and then Gunko rekt the non-M3 SHs. that's it. Everywhere else they fell flat.
Even GunkImu fell flat.
Wings get scraps. Non-M3 SHs dont even get that.
It's kinda annoying. Why bother having a giant protagonist cast if only the MC matters?
It’s funny how Gaban was bitching about the Wings not having ACoC yet when half the crew doesn’t even have any Haki yet. There’s no good reason for us to be at the end of fucking Elbaf with half the crew not even knowing the basics of Haki yet
 
- Characters pointing out that HKs are bums

- They got significant power boost with Omen and legendary weapons.

- Sommers overpowering Zoro's strongest/2d strongest attack to date.

- Somehow still getting low diffed by even CoCless Zoro.

I genuinely do not understand why Oda even bothered giving Sommers that DD feat atp.
Oda momentarily cared about making the Omen HKs look tough, and then immediately reverted to making them look weak and pathetic again because all he cares about are lame gag scenes
 
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