Powers & Abilities Is Asura a move or a form

[Punk Rotten]

Move with 2 different attacks? And i'd argue that G3 is shorter.

I think comparing something that a character has fleshed out as a transformative technique through dialogue, side effects to overcome, etc. by Oda makes it a form. Zoro has not referred to it as a form, and there is no evidence in the manga it is considered as such. Its just speculation, but for now it definitely seems like just a move or set of moves.

 

[Enma]

Lol Luffy can gattling in gear 3 for minutes/hours though. Zori should try to sustain asura for more than a minute.

One attack from G3 and it's done, what minutes/hours? And Zoro never needed Asura for that long.

Asura is more of a charged attack than a form. It's like Kings punch. Most of Zoro's best attacks seem to be charged moves. Even Sanzen Sekai falls into that category. Just cause he spins the blade doesn't mean it's a "form"

It has two (three if count filler) different attacks. While is Asura, Zoro talked to Kaku, destroyed his attack while in form and then performed his own attack. It's clearly a mode.

 

[Gauntlet]

Considering he used 2 different attacks against Kaku while Asura activated, it's 100% a bona-fide form.

 

[trav]

bandana is a mode

 

[bennbeckman]

Def a form, and it's Asura not Ashura like the scabbard

 

[Finalbeta]

bandana is a mode

And a mood too I would add

 

[Kishido]

A move
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If it's not an Illusion than he should clone more legendary swords and let Nami sell them

 

[Crush]

Well a form is something I expect to be something which changes the user himself giving a boost, I would only attribute it to mostly DF users though(zoans obviosuly all have that).
Zoro even have Mutoryu...doesn't mean its a new form...its just a style.

you're literally talking yourself into a hole
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Asura is a form. It comes with its own attacks that aren't used in any other sword style. Whether he can sustain the form is up for debate. We'll see it this arc most definitely.

 

[Roronoa-sama]

Lol Luffy can gattling in gear 3 for minutes/hours though. Zori should try to sustain asura for more than a minute.

Asura is more of a charged attack than a form. It's like Kings punch. Most of Zoro's best attacks seem to be charged moves. Even Sanzen Sekai falls into that category. Just cause he spins the blade doesn't mean it's a "form"

First the rivals must hold out for more than 3 minutes.

 

[Desolate Smaug]

First the rivals must hold out for more than 3 minutes.

Luffy was going to gattling Noah for probably an hour in gear 3. He already did it for much extended time.

 

[Rekien]

Obviously a form.

Does it alter the user and allow him to use atacks while altering them, or allows for use of specific atacks? If yes, then its a form, just like ALL gears including G3(at least in its introduction) and diable janble also are a form. The time he stays in that form has nothing to do with it being a form at all.

 

[nik87]

Luffy was going to gattling Noah for probably an hour in gear 3. He already did it for much extended time.

How did you transform seconds into hours? :yasu:

 

[GrandmasterChef Zonji]

Luffy Gear 2,3,4 is a form
Sanji Diable Jambe is a form
Of course Asura is a Form

 

[Finalbeta]

How did you transform seconds into hours? :yasu:

It should funnily be the opposite given the intrinsic speed of the SHs, though we know battles are inconsistent most of the time.

 

[Patryipe]

It's a form, but it's used like a finisher move. You won't see Zoro running for hours with three heads.

 

[Red Admiral]

if it's a Form ....

I don't even want to THINK about what form Shanks and Mihawk can perform

it's too powerful to exist ... I go with " a complex move"

 

[nik87]

if it's a Form ....

I don't even want to THINK about what form Shanks and Mihawk can perform

it's too powerful to exist ... I go with " a complex move"

Shanks and Mihawk cant pull off anything alike. That's a Zoro only thing.

 

[Red Admiral]

Shanks and Mihawk cant pull off anything alike. That's a Zoro only thing.

and why Zoro was able to do that? anything but swordsmanship skill?

he was able to do that when he was a rookie ... when Shanks/Mihawk was at least 100 times above him in skill

Asura likes is a move/mod form swordsman
there is ZERO reason to assume two greatest sword master alive can't pull something like this off

as a move? it would be epic
as a mod ? it would be too much

 

[Finalbeta]

It's unclear why Zoro possesses Asura, Oda simply didn't disclose the true origin, so speculation is fine but our minds could get blown by witnessing the reason in the future.

 

[thedarkdragon11]

It's just a move... An illusion/projection...