General & Others Imagine if Pain ran away from Jiraiya. Oda made BB run away instead of taking a W.
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if only not picking unnecessary fights was withing BB's character or something it's not like he has ever done that before
As for me, I just am enjoying their endless salt, stuck in their hell where Naruto second half was almost complete crap, 99% of the side characters filled and forgotten, and One Piece still flies high. And the proof of this is that instead of making their peace with reality, they are here shitposting in their free time, where they could enjoy their life instead of showing their saltiness.
Blackbeard couldn't take a win here. Rayleigh can't defeat him but is troublesome enough to require his attention and hurt him in a significant way if given the chance, which also means exposing himself to Boa Hancock (which is the most dangerous factor there, he himself stated it) and probably Coby. Considering that two of his main adversaries weren't devil fruit users and he couldn't freely use the Gura Gura fruit as it risked his own subordinates... Well, the picture is clear.
People are overthinking this situation even though it's just another "I have no idea how this can be solved" scenario from Oda. Blackbeard taking a win meant Hancock dying and that's not happening for obvious reasons. The author could have shown the resolution instead of vaguely telling that everything worked out (I don't know, by Rayleigh, Shakky or whoever risking themselves as a hostage while Hancock unpetrifies everyone so she doesn't try anything dumb), but he decided to draw a veil over it.
At the end, Blackbeard was in disadvantage. Hancock was tricky and a powerful support appeared out of nowhere. No need to play dumb.
People are overthinking this situation even though it's just another "I have no idea how this can be solved" scenario from Oda. Blackbeard taking a win meant Hancock dying and that's not happening for obvious reasons. The author could have shown the resolution instead of vaguely telling that everything worked out (I don't know, by Rayleigh, Shakky or whoever risking themselves as a hostage while Hancock unpetrifies everyone so she doesn't try anything dumb), but he decided to draw a veil over it.
At the end, Blackbeard was in disadvantage. Hancock was tricky and a powerful support appeared out of nowhere. No need to play dumb.
All the problems with top tier portrayals is coming from Oda OVERPROTECTING the big players. Oda simply refuses to have top tiers fight each other UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Which causes the result that we have: a top tier appears, everyone is hyped, then the top tier disappears without fighting anyone or doing anything. Greenbull and Blackbeard are perfect examples for this!
There's nothing wrong in top tiers fighting, losing and coming back–nothing wrong at all. That doesn't dehype them, especially when the author can put top tier X in a situation where he cannot win so by losing he doesn't dehype himself. For example: Greenbull in Wano was against one top tier + multiple high tiers and commanders, there's no way that he can win with that–so he shouldn't. And a good author can make Greenbull look good why losing showing that he's fearless and doesn't back down. Instead, we've got the humiliation with Shanks.
Then we have the Blackbeard situation, where Oda had to hype the SSG, but he simply didn't have any character for that purpose, so he used Blackbeard. And in order to save Boa from certain death, he pulled the Rayleigh card, and then tried to fix things by having Rayleigh to admit that he's weaker than Blackbeard.
There's nothing wrong in top tiers fighting, losing and coming back–nothing wrong at all. That doesn't dehype them, especially when the author can put top tier X in a situation where he cannot win so by losing he doesn't dehype himself. For example: Greenbull in Wano was against one top tier + multiple high tiers and commanders, there's no way that he can win with that–so he shouldn't. And a good author can make Greenbull look good why losing showing that he's fearless and doesn't back down. Instead, we've got the humiliation with Shanks.
Then we have the Blackbeard situation, where Oda had to hype the SSG, but he simply didn't have any character for that purpose, so he used Blackbeard. And in order to save Boa from certain death, he pulled the Rayleigh card, and then tried to fix things by having Rayleigh to admit that he's weaker than Blackbeard.
how do you bring 2 hyped characters back to back and make them run away ASAP within less than 10 chaps total
Hyping an Old Rayleigh who doesn't have a role left to play at the cost of a future opponent in Teach is just so extra lmao. The only thing it did was shut up the crowd who recently started to shit on Rayleigh due to a lack of focus in the Oden flashback. BB will likely have his time anyway but it's a bit of an odd move.
how do you bring 2 hyped characters back to back and make them run away ASAP within less than 10 chaps total
This is gonna make me look like as if I am still salty over the recent past, but Lolda's unwillingness to go through with ZKK should be an alarm bell for the readers in that he's got his priorities all skewed when it comes to payoffs after the time skip. No ZKK was simply its most famous symptom, but by no means is it the only one.
Oda's clearly past his prime, but some of you are making preemptive judgments. Maybe wait to see where this Coby plotline goes before dismissing it as pointless to the story? It's the same thing with people complaining about Ryokugyu showing up to Wano for "no reason" when, lo and behold, the latest chapter confirmed he made Yamato realize her purpose in life.