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Is Law a swordsman?


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Stop deflecting, your post was written to make it seem as if Oda was the one who drew it since you conveniently brought up his name.

Oda doesn't "think" of anything but his own manga. Sources outside of the manga are official but they are NOT what "Oda thinks."

Otherwise you might as well say Oda thinks that Vista rivals Mihawk because Vista's profile on some fanbook states that he does.
Deflecting what? Me correctly stating that everyone in that photo is a swordsman and ignoring your other crap is not me Deflecting. Its me not giving a crap about what you say cause its all headcanon lol.

Not reading the other crap you said either. Here you go though, Oda comments again (but it won't mean anything to you Mr Headcanon) 👍🏾

 
Can't believe this thread is still having an ongoing discussion on the topic. It seems that apart from Zoro and Mihawk fans and some others most are trying to twist it in some way so that Law does not fall under the label of a swordsman. Some are saying he is mostly devil fruit based fighter or half devil fruit based etc. etc. Doesn't matter what you say Law is and has been labeled a swordsman, it doesn't matter how much of his fighting is based on his devil fruit. If you are a swordsman then you are weaker than the WSS.

If Law dies after performing that immortal surgery or becomes injured in some way to disable him from using his sword I can see these same people bring up things like if not for these incidents etc. Law would have become the WSS and shit like that and Oda didn't want Law to be below Zoro EoS so he incapacitated Law like that.
 
Luffy used a sword early in Wano. Is Luffy a swordsman?

We are arguing over the degrees of sword use/dependence that define a “swordsman”. A “true” swordsman, IMO, is nearly totally dependent on the sword for battling and uses forms instead of df abilities. Law does not meet both of those criteria. Law is a sword user not a swordsman.

A parallel is Luffy and Garp. Luffy is a df user that uses his fists and feet. Garp is the quintessential pugilist. Garp is a “true” boxer. Luffy boxes and does lots of other stuff related to his df.
In your mind "luffy used a sword once!" is same as "literal author of series has called Law swordsman many times" lol?

You can use sword as primary weapon and not be a swordsman. You can use sword as supplement and still be a swordsman. Only thing matters is whether the character or Oda puts them in a group called swordsmen or not.

What you consider pure and unpure is irrelevant to if they're part of SM or not. Author made a group called swordsmen, and made Law part of that group. That's all there is to it. Barely any swordsmen are pure like Shanks or Mihawk. Most have a lot of unorthodox shit. Kaku is big example.
 
In your mind "luffy used a sword once!" is same as "literal author of series has called Law swordsman many times" lol?

You can use sword as primary weapon and not be a swordsman. You can use sword as supplement and still be a swordsman. Only thing matters is whether the character or Oda puts them in a group called swordsmen or not.

What you consider pure and unpure is irrelevant to if they're part of SM or not. Author made a group called swordsmen, and made Law part of that group. That's all there is to it. Barely any swordsmen are pure like Shanks or Mihawk. Most have a lot of unorthodox shit. Kaku is big example.
You take my comment about Luffy out of context.
This thread is about expressing our opinion about whether Law is a swordsman or not. I am just expressing my opinion. I stand by what I posted. You are welcome to yours.
Other posters have pointed out that that group of swordsmen is not from Oda. I have no idea if that is accurate.
 
You take my comment about Luffy out of context.
This thread is about expressing our opinion about whether Law is a swordsman or not. I am just expressing my opinion. I stand by what I posted. You are welcome to yours.
Other posters have pointed out that that group of swordsmen is not from Oda. I have no idea if that is accurate.
The drawing is fan made.
Oda saw it and commented as "A gathering of swordsmen". Meaning that he considers all the character that are there as swordsmen. Law is among them.

Another time a fan made a drawing with Zoro, Law, Kinemon and Brook. Oda, again, commented with "... these four swordsmen".
Like it or not, in Oda's mind Law is a swordsman. All your damage control, all your excuses, all your denial, all your mental gymnastics... still won't change that.
 
The drawing is fan made.
Oda saw it and commented as "A gathering of swordsmen". Meaning that he considers all the character that are there as swordsmen. Law is among them.

Another time a fan made a drawing with Zoro, Law, Kinemon and Brook. Oda, again, commented with "... these four swordsmen".
Like it or not, in Oda's mind Law is a swordsman. All your damage control, all your excuses, all your denial, all your mental gymnastics... still won't change that.
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You take my comment about Luffy out of context.
This thread is about expressing our opinion about whether Law is a swordsman or not. I am just expressing my opinion. I stand by what I posted. You are welcome to yours.
Other posters have pointed out that that group of swordsmen is not from Oda. I have no idea if that is accurate.
I mean you're responding to OP who provided actual stuff with a rebuttal of "touching a sword for 3 pages won't make you swordsman" which is not what he's saying anyway lol.

No one disagrees with you that Law isn't a pure swordsman or whatever. It's just that those things are fan made. It's just a group called swordsmen.

As for the Oda stuff. It's not. Usopp Gallery is about fanarts. But Oda personally picks and labels every single fanart by himself. So the comment labelling Law as SM is from Oda. Art isn't.
 
As time goes on the more people that claimed characters weren't swordsmen get shown to be swordsmen. Major 1 was shanks sir "not a pure swordsman" himself, then the next domino Roger, and now law. If you use a sword as a core part of your fighting style you are a swordsman by definition. Not a sword welder, not a sword user, not a pure swordsman or anything else but just a swordsman. Law was clearly a swordsman now it's just confirmed for the people that wanted to deny common sense because of their bias.
 
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