Today's menu has something special, a glimpse at the unattainable Power, a hint of the fight of all fights!
>Everyone dreams about being Pirate King, nobody dreams about being WSS... Nobody cares about it...
By the end of this thread, you will understand why nobody dreams about becoming the strongest.
Throughout all the history, we have been introduced to only 3 characters who were referred to as Power/representing Power.
Those 3 characters are Kaido, Mihawk and Zoro. All 3 of them are spread among different generations.
Kaido belongs to the old generation, Mihawk to the current generation while the future is Zoro's.
According to Oda, with Wano wrapped up, we are at the core of the story now which is a clash of the current generation with the future one.
Wano has also signaled the end of the Old Generation, removing the last 2 relics of the old era, Kaido and Big Mom.
Every Emperor remaining, which is what the core of the story is about, does not belong to the old generation but to the current/future one.
Why have so few characters been declared as Power and why have even fewer dreamt about becoming the strongest?
We cannot answer this question at any point in time/any point in the story. We cant answer it now, we couldn't do it before Wano, we couldn't do it at the start of post-TS, we certainly were less qualified to answer it in pre-TS and certainly not at the beginning of this show either. The only true answer will come once the show ends.
That's a moment when we will have clarity and see what the peak of Power looks like and be like - Oh! That's why nobody dreams about it...
The majority of characters weren't intended to even be listed among Conquerors, even less of them have been blessed to learn CoC coating.
Those who were lucky have been stated to be >handful of the very strongest...
However, for the 2 remaining representatives of Power, the power of a handful of the very strongest is nothing but a stepping stone!
Take a second to understand that line.
The power that is the best thing the 1% will ever have is just a piece of a much greater puzzle for Zoro and Mihawk.
The road doesn't end with CoC coating for those two, it goes a lot further.
Zoro vs Mihawk
This is a fight that will show us Oda's peak of power, this is a fight with the longest build-up in the show.
Everything that we saw so far and everything we will see in the future is just a hype tool for the fight between the two strongest.
We cant look at Zoro vs Mihawk from the current perspective because this too has to be viewed from the point of the manga's ending.
Our understanding and expectations from this fight constantly evolve as we see the bar lifted higher and higher as time passes.
So, what can we expect from Zoro vs Mihawk? I would say that right now, it is truly unimaginable.
We cannot fathom this near-impossible level of Power. The only thing we can say for certain is that nothing else will come even close to it.
How to beat Zoro/Mihawk in a fight?
As it was said for the first representative of Power, if it is 1vs1 bet on Kaido. The same applies to Zoro and Mihawk.
It is not possible to beat them in a fair way in 1vs1 setting. Why? This has been explained several times due to SH's impossible dreams...
However, let's dive deeper into this from a combat perspective instead of a narrative.
The short answer is that they are simply too strong but let's take a look at the longer answer.
Who knows Mihawk's power best among all the characters? Only two characters come to mind, Zoro and Shanks.
As powerful as Zoro is right now, the last time he had a chance to fight Mihawk was during time-skip and back then he didn't have aCoC...
That leaves us with the man whose duels with Mihawk shook the Grand Line and engraved themselves in the memory of the great Whitebeard. Shanks is probably the only guy who knows of Mihawk's power but I am here to predict that even Shanks is clueless about Mihawk's true power. I think he will be one of the witnesses of the ultimate fight between Zoro and Mihawk and will let us know that Mihawk never took him seriously. This has been foreshadowed in pre-TS when Brook said the same about zRyuma when he saw him fight vs Zoro.
I have already figured out that Mihawk's haki is second to none as he has created the strongest weapon in the whole world.
All of his hakis will be revealed to be unmatched and haki is the thing that conquers everything.
On the other hand, let's analyze Zoro from the EOS perspective - What is he? A collection of the best possible things in combat.
Stronger weapons than Mihawk, stronger hakis than Mihawk, stronger combat style than Mihawk, stronger body than Mihawk, etc...
How do you beat a guy who is the best at literally everything? You just don't.
I will take a liberty here to guess Mihawk's ultimate ability as I have guessed Kizaru's ability long before it was revealed and nailed it!
I would say that Kizaru's abilities are inspired by Mihawk's and that he is a lite version of him.
And the fact that Kizaru's abilities weren't highlighted could be so Mihawk's style remains unrevealed until the right time comes.
While Kizaru's sword is that of light, Mihawk's sword is one of the night, the opposite.
The ability that I have predicted about Kizaru is multiplication, the cloning ability.
While I initially thought it would be harder to achieve, in a combination with Sacred Mirrors, ultimately the result's are the same - many Kizarus.
No, I don't think that will transfer onto Mihawk as well but I do think he will have the ability to multiply his sword.
Where is this coming from, why the multiplication of the sword?
Well, simply because of Mihawk's 1-sword style is not capable of matching Zoro's superior sword styles.
This is the reason why I have initially placed Zoro above Mihawk already but I wasn't aware of the haki obstacle at that time.
However, what happens when Zoro removes the haki obstacle and makes his haki the strongest in the world? Is Mihawk getting 1-shotted?
Well, to prevent that, for at least a little while, Mihawk will be required to compete with Zoro at his strongest.
Ask yourselves - why does Demon God Asura exist? For what reason is it there?
Is it for Kaku's sake? Or PX-4's sake? Or Kaido's sake?
None of the above. The best always exists for a single reason - to be used against the best.
While Oda doesn't shy away from stalling Zoro through hard-to-cut obstacles, if we look at this from the perspective of the show's end, we know that such obstacles cannot keep Zoro in check as he is capable of cutting through everything at that point.
So, how do you trouble such Zoro?
We have seen a glimpse of this back in Enies Lobby, the only time that Zoro has been truly bested - through superior sword style.
That was the only time Zoro's Santoryu was truly pushed to its limit and wasn't enough and that's when the Demon God emerged.
And we know that a superior sword style also means more swords than Zoro - this is behind the idea of Mihawk's sword multiplication.
We know Mihawk's inspiration is the Impaler:
However, to make it different, he is not impaling from below but from above:
My conclusion is the following - Zoro's ultimate ability exists for one reason - to defeat Mihawk's ultimate ability.
And that gives us a glimpse at Mihawk's possible ultimate move.
While the cutting power in Demon God is awesome, that is NOT the point of that ability.
The true strength lies in the omnidirectional body, one that has no blind spots and can counter everything.
So, we have to ask ourselves, how does one create a worthy challenge for such a broken ability?
Yoru's own name could hint at this - What is a Night? The absence of light.
How do you summon night in the middle of the day? By multiplying Yoru so many times that it covers the sun!
An unmeasurable amount of Yorus coming at Zoro from all directions! A truly worthy challenger for Asura!
Enjoy the meal, you have been served.
For dessert, I leave you with even bigger news:
While the strongest people in the world require 1 Supreme-grade weapon to channel their power through it, Zoro, at his peak, needs 9 strongest weapons in the world!!! Do you understand now why nobody dares to dream of being the strongest?!
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