Future Events A reasonable roadmap of Zoro’s future in One Piece

[LadyVados]

In this arc Zoro will fight either King or Queen and beat them 1v1 and then he will be involved in the big group fight with Kaido. He may reopen Kaido’s scar or may even be the one to land the finishing blow (though I’m not saying this will happen).

The next arc will be about rescuing Sabo from the Marines. In this arc Luffy will probably fight Akainu 1v1 and beat him. Zoro on the other hand will probably fight Fujitora 1v1 as a battle of high level swordsmen and defeat him.

The next arc will be Elbaf. This will be a story arc. The other straw hats except Zoro won’t have any real fights. But Mihawk, having heard Zoro is now a powerful swordsman since he beat Fujitora, will now challenge Fujitora. They will have an epic duel at the end of which Zoro will win and become WSS.

The next and final arc of the series will be the Blackbeard arc. Zoro will either not take part at all because of being badly injured or he will fight some relatively weak opponent in a brief fight.

There may be an arc after this in which the straw hats fight Imu or the Gorosei but I doubt it since they don’t seem to be strong fighters. At least not by this stage. Also Luffy vs BB being the final battle makes sense.

What do you guys think ?

 

[Albino 👑]

In this arc Zoro will fight either King or Queen and beat them 1v1 and then he will be involved in the big group fight with Kaido. He may reopen Kaido’s scar or may even be the one to land the finishing blow (though I’m not saying this will happen).

The next arc will be about rescuing Sabo from the Marines. In this arc Luffy will probably fight Akainu 1v1 and beat him. Zoro on the other hand will probably fight Fujitora 1v1 as a battle of high level swordsman and defeat him.

The next arc will be Elbaf. This will be a story arc. The other straw hats except Zoro won’t have any real fights. But Mihawk, having heard Zoro is now a powerful swordsman since he beat Fujitora, will now challenge Fujitora. They will have an epic duel at the end of which Zoro will win and become WSS.

The next and final arc of the series will be the Blackbeard arc. Zoro will either not take part at all because of being badly injured or he will fight some relatively weak opponent in a brief fight.

There may be an arc after this in which the straw hats fight Imu or the Gorosei but I doubt it since they don’t seem to be strong fighters. At least not by this stage. Also Luffy vs BB being the final battle makes sense.

What do you guys think ?

I don't think the strawhats will be fighting the marines directly post wano before elbaf. The marines/world government are probably endgame endgame post one piece
Tho zoro vs fujitora could be cool in the future

After wano i think itll roughly go like this

1. Well meet up with the red haired pirates in elbaf so he'll fight someone from his crew
2. The blackbeard pirates will come up during the laugh tale arc and he fights shiryu
3. The strawhats fight against the world government after the find the one piece and he fights fujitora or ghandi. Maybe even mihawk if he has ties to imu

 

[Finalbeta]

I feel he will confront King at best, Queen would not be able to kill his boredom in that Zoro wouldn't feel in the need to be pushed to his limit for even a singular instant. A fight against King would be easier than an EL Zoro v EL Kaku but he would at least prove a decent warm up.

I concur with the idea that the gap between the Supernova Zoro vanquished dozens of chapters ago and King was covered by his Enma training. Now Zoro should be able to defeat an elite commander after a small fight.

If this is true he is ready for Kaido, if not amen.

And for what comes next, I expect his new opponents to be Fujitora, Shiryu, Mihawk in this particular order.

 

[Paperchampion23]

Imo:

- King/Queen @ Wano; feat on Kaido
- Shiryu (or someone with Joz's devil fruit; Jesus); Laugh Tale
- Fujitora; New Marineford
- Monk Gorosei; Mariejois
- Mihawk; God Valley/Some Undisclosed Location


In that order. There may be something between Wano and Blackbeard (either Vegapunk/Elbaf centric villains that are part of this).
Those last 4 are pretty much all final war centric and I think with how long that arc will be, we will see Zoro go through it all. I say this order because if you look at how Luffy's order may play out:

- Kaido/Big Mom? (clearly happening)
- Blackbeard (clearly happening)
- Akainu (clearly happening)
- Im (unknown if he/she is a fighter yet)
- Shanks (my personal opinion)

But this comes with my pure belief that Blackbeard isn't the final antagonist and Shanks in fact is how this manga ends as it starts (which is why Mihawk is Zoro's last fight, and why Usopp fighting his father last is important too)

 

[HA001]

Imo:

- King/Queen @ Wano; feat on Kaido
- Shiliew (or someone with Joz's devil fruit; Jesus);
- Fujitora
- Monk Gorosei
- Mihawk


In that order. There may be something between Wano and Blackbeard (either Vegapunk/Elbaf centric villains that are part of this.
Those last 4 are pretty much all final war centric and I think with how long that arc will be, we will see Zoro go through it all. I say this order because if you look at how Luffy's order may play out:

- Kaido/Big Mom? (clearly happening)
- Blackbeard (clearly happening)
- Akainu (clearly happening)
- Im
- Shanks

But this comes with my pure belief that Blackbeard isn't the final antagonist and Shanks in fact is how this manga ends as it starts (which is why Mihawk is Zoro's last fight, and why Usopp fighting his father last is important too)

Swap fuji for kizaru

 

[ImmaIvanoM]

Queen

Why would he fight Queen? Queens not the strongest swordsman on the enemy side

This is like saying Zoro fights Diamanté instead of Pica

 

[Paperchampion23]

Swap fuji for kizaru

Why tho lol? Fuji is the swordsman out of all the Admirals. Kizaru to me either seems like a Sanji opponent with his (mostly) kicking fighting style OR a Jinbe opponent due to his background on arresting Arlong

 

[nik87]

Zoro vs King >> vs Shiryu >> vs Kizaru >> vs Gandhi >> vs Mihawk
Not sure if he will fight Kaido from the start or will just join near the end but it shouldnt be his major fight for several reason.
Same thing against Big Mom, a short-lasting clash is possible but Luffy should finish her off since Zoro will finish off Kaido.
Also, a fight vs Shanks before WG war would be nice as well but probably wont happen.

 

[Paperchampion23]

Zoro vs King >> vs Shiryu >> vs Kizaru >> vs Gandhi >> vs Mihawk
Not sure if he will fight Kaido from the start or will just join near the end but it shouldnt be his major fight for several reason.
Same thing against Big Mom, a short-lasting clash is possible but Luffy should finish her off since Kaido will finish off Kaido.
Also, a fight vs Shanks before WG war would be nice as well but probably wont happen.

I like this, but I'm genuinely curious about the Kizaru choice. Fuji is a good person, yes, but his status as a Marine Admiral might still place him against Zoro. Luffy still punched Koby clean in the face during Marineford. Kizaru just strikes me as a Sanji/Jinbe opponent. The character 90% of the time uses only kicks in his fighting style, and the one time he created a sword of light was to block Rayleigh's sword. I say Jinbe too because of Kizaru's history with putting Arlong in prison, and being the indirect cause of Arlong's terror on East Blue.

Fujitora is an actual swordsman, who seems to specialize in the thing Zoro's may be weakest in: Observation Haki. Plus, we have no idea how Ryokugyuu fights too, which may align more with Sanji/Jinbe.

 

[Albino 👑]

If fuji can fight against the revs he can probably fight against pirates too even the strawhats

Either way an admiral is an admiral so whoever it is its still hella impressive

 

[HA001]

Why tho lol? Fuji is the swordsman out of all the Admirals. Kizaru to me either seems like a Sanji opponent with his (mostly) kicking fighting style OR a Jinbe opponent due to his background on arresting Arlong

I like this, but I'm genuinely curious about the Kizaru choice. Fuji is a good person, yes, but his status as a Marine Admiral might still place him against Zoro. Luffy still punched Koby clean in the face during Marineford. Kizaru just strikes me as a Sanji/Jinbe opponent. The character 90% of the time uses only kicks in his fighting style, and the one time he created a sword of light was to block Rayleigh's sword. I say Jinbe too because of Kizaru's history with putting Arlong in prison, and being the indirect cause of Arlong's terror on East Blue.

Fujitora is an actual swordsman, who seems to specialize in the thing Zoro's may be weakest in: Observation Haki. Plus, we have no idea how Ryokugyuu fights too, which may align more with Sanji/Jinbe.

Kizaru has better swordsmanship feats than fujitora though.
Hes only ever kicked what to him is fodder. The only time he was pushed by ray he used a sword.
Hes been portrayed as akainus n.2
Hes matched up to benn marco and ray so far all n.2s he even had that dig at zoro at sabaody.
Why would fuji push zoros coo to the next level when his powers gravity ? Surely fighting the lightman does that.

 

[nik87]

I like this, but I'm genuinely curious about the Kizaru choice. Fuji is a good person, yes, but his status as a Marine Admiral might still place him against Zoro. Luffy still punched Koby clean in the face during Marineford. Kizaru just strikes me as a Sanji/Jinbe opponent. The character 90% of the time uses only kicks in his fighting style, and the one time he created a sword of light was to block Rayleigh's sword. I say Jinbe too because of Kizaru's history with putting Arlong in prison, and being the indirect cause of Arlong's terror on East Blue.

Fujitora is an actual swordsman, who seems to specialize in the thing Zoro's may be weakest in: Observation Haki. Plus, we have no idea how Ryokugyuu fights too, which may align more with Sanji/Jinbe.

Kizaru targeted Zoro back on Sabaody and picked on him, I call that unfinished business.
Also, Kizaru's swordsmanship is top notch considering him going toe-to-toe with the Dark King.
Not saying that Fujitora is weaker or anything but it is a lot more fitting to fight someone who can be described as a bad guy than holding back against a guy like Fujitora.

Kizaru kicks only when he isnt facing any serious threat, when he did, he made sure to get that sword out. Big Mom is going barehanded against people who arent serious threat, when she faces one, she makes sure to grab a sword. Sanji, if he gets paired with an Admiral at all, will probably be with Green Bull. Not sure about Jinbe's match-up.

I dont think Zoro's CoO is weak or anything, if anything it may be among the best out there is he uses breath of all things again. Considering that he will face Shiryu, his CoO must be amazing or he is dead. I consider Kizaru an actual swordsman as well. The only reason why he isnt carrying a metal sword is because his DF allows him not to.

 

[Luffy bin Dragon]

In this arc Zoro will fight either King or Queen and beat them 1v1 and then he will be involved in the big group fight with Kaido. He may reopen Kaido’s scar or may even be the one to land the finishing blow (though I’m not saying this will happen).

The next arc will be about rescuing Sabo from the Marines. In this arc Luffy will probably fight Akainu 1v1 and beat him. Zoro on the other hand will probably fight Fujitora 1v1 as a battle of high level swordsmen and defeat him.

The next arc will be Elbaf. This will be a story arc. The other straw hats except Zoro won’t have any real fights. But Mihawk, having heard Zoro is now a powerful swordsman since he beat Fujitora, will now challenge Fujitora. They will have an epic duel at the end of which Zoro will win and become WSS.

The next and final arc of the series will be the Blackbeard arc. Zoro will either not take part at all because of being badly injured or he will fight some relatively weak opponent in a brief fight.

There may be an arc after this in which the straw hats fight Imu or the Gorosei but I doubt it since they don’t seem to be strong fighters. At least not by this stage. Also Luffy vs BB being the final battle makes sense.

What do you guys think ?

Nah shiryu vs Zoro is happening and want him to accomplish his dream at the same time as luffy that’s why I always subscribed to the theory that shiryu would kill Mihawk. Maybe in the act four intermissio we’ll see the BBP attacking shanks with Mihawk s also being there.

 

[LadyVados]

Nah shiryu vs Zoro is happening and want him to accomplish his dream at the same time as luffy that’s why I always subscribed to the theory that shiryu would kill Mihawk. Maybe in the act four intermissio we’ll see the BBP attacking shanks with Mihawk s also being there.

While one half of me thinks it would be cool. The other half thinks that Zorohaters will use this to claim Mihawk wasn’t a top tier.

I guess Zoro could beat Mihawk then Shilliew could kill a weakened Mihawk and then tell everybody that he is the WSS. Then a weakened Zoro could fight him and beat him.

 

[Sword God Ryuma]

Kizaru has better swordsmanship feats than fujitora though.
Hes only ever kicked what to him is fodder. The only time he was pushed by ray he used a sword.
Hes been portrayed as akainus n.2
Hes matched up to benn marco and ray so far all n.2s he even had that dig at zoro at sabaody.
Why would fuji push zoros coo to the next level when his powers gravity ? Surely fighting the lightman does that.

Fuji has Island size AOE. None of the Admirals have shown to be way above the other. Its just fans have hard on for the original 3 Admirals. Nothing in the manga has ever been implied that Kizaru is stronger than Fuji or vice versa.

 

[Date]

I couldnt disagree more.

 

[vikas]

The next arc will be about rescuing Sabo from the Marines.

 

[Dark Hound]

Akainu being defeated way before the final arc ? You're tripping

 

[The White Crane]

My guess:

King/Queen (and later Kaido in a group fight) >>> Shiryu >>> Fujitora >>> Gandhi >>> Mihawk

But, seriously, the only one I'm sure of is Mihawk being Zoro's endgame. I already posted this several times before, but if Mihawk had no ties to Imu, then Zoro vs Mihawk takes place after WG is down. If Mihawk has ties with Imu, then Gandhi is omitted altogether for the favor of Mihawk, of course.

Shiryu & Fujitora are a bit difficult to say, because this has plenty to do with Luffy's journey, too, especially Luffy vs Akainu and Luffy vs Teach. The key to sustaining the thrill here is: can Akainu be a reasonable challenge for the Pirate King who just soloed a guy with 3 OP DFs?

 

[stealthblack]

1) wano: beating gifters
2) elbaf: beating fodder giant
3) vegapunk arc: beating fodder pacifista
4) raftel: beating fodder guardian

-ready to challenge mohawk for wss title. they have their 50 chapters long of panel battle.

mihawk: SLASH SLASH I taught you well, young padawan *breath heavely*

zoro: master... it's time to end this

mihawk: i teached you everything you know, but not everything I know!

zoro: over clifs, seas and fodders, there is nothing i can't cut

*uses his breath of all things to sense mihawk breath and cuts him.*

Mihawk: you.....yo..... fought well. *dies*

zoro: sempai! noooo


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