Who will be the next great leader of the Zoro Temple!?


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Here's what I don't get with Sommer's which makes this fight so bizarre

Sommer's overpowers Zoro's 103 mercies
Then Zoro pre and subconsciously with CoC overpowers Sommer's
At the end Sommer gives up and runs away

Just such an odd and bizarre sequence
 

RayanOO

Lazy is the way
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Here's what I don't get with Sommer's which makes this fight so bizarre

Sommer's overpowers Zoro's 103 mercies
Then Zoro pre and subconsciously with CoC overpowers Sommer's
At the end Sommer gives up and runs away

Just such an odd and bizarre sequence
I think Oda didn’t know what to do with Sommees and hesitated between the badass/fighter or the coward/bitch character

and he didn’t really chose. One moment Sommers can block Zoro the other he is running around like a fool

Oda really messed up this fight
 

nik87

Kitetsu Wanker
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Here's what I don't get with Sommer's which makes this fight so bizarre

Sommer's overpowers Zoro's 103 mercies
Then Zoro pre and subconsciously with CoC overpowers Sommer's
At the end Sommer gives up and runs away

Just such an odd and bizarre sequence
Easy to explain - Oda chose to do impossible thing for the sake of hype and this is not the first time he did it.
Sommers cannot overpower Dragon Damnation, yet Oda chose to do it. Why? To hype up Sommers.
And then Sommers cannot overpower an attack way weaker than DD...
The same thing with Zoro's Oni Giri drawing a lot of King's blood and yet, it is not possible...
I dare add on top of it - Imu's tail also cannot block Zoro's KoH Oni Giri as it did.
 
@nik87 and @RayanOO Your explanations are complementary imo.
I think that when Oda doesn’t really know how to end a sequence (either because he’s undecided about which path to take, or because he hasn’t had time to think it through), he relies on his two best friends since the timeskip: “hype and vibe.” That leads to this kind of situation that doesn’t make much sense in hindsight. And I think this phenomenon has been happening more and more often since Wano.

You can really feel that some plotlines are last-minute additions, with no real narrative structure set in place or clearly defined. But since Oda remains a very talented writer, he manages to get by with a few sleights of hand here and there.

As for Zoro and this Sommers thing, I imagine the sleight of hand will be to tell us that using CoC without mastery weakens Zoro’s attacks, and that, on top of that, “the omen is the opppsite of CoC” will be enough for most fans to accept it as a valid explanation.
 
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