Powers & Abilities If swordsmanship is so powerful why there are characters who don't use the sword?

#41
I guess brooks just built different too
He doesn’t need a school or style but his sword skill still that good
:brootea:

hush

The very fact that Divine Departure is an attack thats inherited between Shanks/Roger shows that Shanks inherited Roger's swordsmanship.
nah he just learned how to swing gryphon really hard

roger's haki does the rest :kayneshrug:
 
#49
Among the strongest in the verse there is almost always someone who carry a sword

Even the strongest retcon in battle shonen's history



Xebec, likely the strongest pirate ever, and roger
Mihawk, ryuma, nasjuro,
Oden, bigmom, fujitora, aramaki, shiki

Almost everyone have a real sword or using a sword made by their power, like kizaru
 
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#50
On a serious note though. Zoro's dream would be quite worthless if 95% of swordsmen would not be included due to some nitty gritty details. He refused to be defeated by a fire spitting acrobat who called himself swordsman and most of his opponents so far consisted on versatile killing machines. Zoro wouldn't call himself world's strongest swordsman if he lost to Shanks.

:pepestop:
 
#52
Devil Fruits have clear downside - you can't swim.

What downside do swordsman suffer from?
The same weaknesses all weapons in general suffer from:

having to rely on an external weapon outside of your own body (can be stolen, dropped, rusted, broken, etc…)

beyond that, swords are strictly melee, so their range isn’t as big as other weapons like ranged firearms, but Oda seems to ignore this by just doing “air slashes”

:kayneshrug::kayneshrug::kayneshrug:
 
#53
The same weaknesses all weapons in general suffer from:

having to rely on an external weapon outside of your own body (can be stolen, dropped, rusted, broken, etc…)

beyond that, swords are strictly melee, so their range isn’t as big as other weapons like ranged firearms, but Oda seems to ignore this by just doing “air slashes”

:kayneshrug::kayneshrug::kayneshrug:
It’s almost as if it is a fantasy story :shocked:
 
#56
I think swords are alternative to the Devil fruit users but finding a good sword is hard, they are more like poor mans Devil fruit substitutes. Even with all that i think Devil fruits are better.
 

Sir Tuna Sandwich II

SII - Sakazuki Incinerate Imu
#60
The same weaknesses all weapons in general suffer from:

having to rely on an external weapon outside of your own body (can be stolen, dropped, rusted, broken, etc…)

beyond that, swords are strictly melee, so their range isn’t as big as other weapons like ranged firearms, but Oda seems to ignore this by just doing “air slashes”

:kayneshrug::kayneshrug::kayneshrug:
BS

ZoLo has a no sword style.
Rokushiki has storm leg.

If idiot Luffy can keep his strawhat than mere swordsman can keep their puny
swords
 
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