Chapter Discussion Oda can't write a battle anymore

#23
That idiot Lucci was too hasty he shouldn't have eaten that crappy zoan df, at the time we didn't know df tiers i thought every df can be mastered peak tier but now we learn that's not the case at all. :kayneshrug:
Guys like Lucci, Katakuri and Doffy are one strong DF away from top tier status. Sure, they are going to be on the lower spectrum of top tiers, especially Lucci who is the only one who doesn't have CoC, but all of them would be top tiers of they had either logia or mythical zoan. I mean imagine Doffy with Ceaser's gas logia and Katakuri with Kaido's dragon zoan? Hell, image Lucci with Ace's fire DF, or Green Bull's plant logia.
 

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#24
Guys like Lucci, Katakuri and Doffy are one strong DF away from top tier status. Sure, they are going to be on the lower spectrum of top tiers, especially Lucci who is the only one who doesn't have CoC, but all of them would be top tiers of they had either logia or mythical zoan. I mean imagine Doffy with Ceaser's gas logia and Katakuri with Kaido's dragon zoan? Hell, image Lucci with Ace's fire DF, or Green Bull's plant logia.
Doflamingo and Katakuri have strong fruits.

Doflamingo has one of the most hax and versatile fruits in the verse. Katakuri has a logia for all intents and purposes.

Lucci's fruit matches his personality and combat style to perfection, but I will admit it's mid tier at best.
 
#26
Guys like Lucci, Katakuri and Doffy are one strong DF away from top tier status. Sure, they are going to be on the lower spectrum of top tiers, especially Lucci who is the only one who doesn't have CoC, but all of them would be top tiers of they had either logia or mythical zoan. I mean imagine Doffy with Ceaser's gas logia and Katakuri with Kaido's dragon zoan? Hell, image Lucci with Ace's fire DF, or Green Bull's plant logia.
Problem is that DF seems to choose their owners according to personality so you need to be a have a mythical lvl character to attract that kind of DF also Mythical Zoans are the most dangerous ones because just look at Ragnirs personality he is clever like a child so if your will is weak you will just be consumed.

So to become top tier you need haki character and also luck and that is why Blackbeard killed Thatch since he lacked the character and luck part.
 
#27
This is an adventure and story manga first. Theres a reason why One Piece has its own scale and lore that surpasses other manga at least in terms of ambition of scale and world building. It has action and fights but it’s not about fight scenes. Never has been
 
#28
He can if he wants to but he doesn't like drawing fights.
Only time he will take his time now is for G5 Luffy, which won't even be a real fight but a repetition of gag panels.

So yeah there isn't any good fight left that will last more than 1 chapter.
 
#29
Guys like Lucci, Katakuri and Doffy are one strong DF away from top tier status. Sure, they are going to be on the lower spectrum of top tiers, especially Lucci who is the only one who doesn't have CoC, but all of them would be top tiers of they had either logia or mythical zoan. I mean imagine Doffy with Ceaser's gas logia and Katakuri with Kaido's dragon zoan? Hell, image Lucci with Ace's fire DF, or Green Bull's plant logia.
Big Meme has a mid tier Paramecia at best, and yet she's still a top tier.

Its not the DF itself that makes you weak, its how you use it + your skill mastery of it + whether you awakened it.
 
#30
Doflamingo and Katakuri have strong fruits.

Doflamingo has one of the most hax and versatile fruits in the verse. Katakuri has a logia for all intents and purposes.

Lucci's fruit matches his personality and combat style to perfection, but I will admit it's mid tier at best.
They are strong only compared to weaker DFs, but in the the top tier sphere they are weak. They don't provide either strong offfense or defense. Again I wanna point out we're talking about top tier sphere, not YC, for YC their DFs are appropriate. If Katakuri had Kaido's DF, with the insane durability, offensive power, speed boost combined with Katakuri's haki would propel him to top tier sphere. Same with Doffy. His DF is good, but doesn't provide the offensive power top tier have, with a gas logia Doffy could do so much more, or Eneles lightning logia.
Lucci is even more disadvantaged with his DF, give him any top tier (Admiral or Yonko DF) and he would be a top tier too. And again, I wanna point out that they would be on the lower end of top tiers, they would still lose to Admirals and Yonko, because their haki is simply not on top tier level, but with a good DFs, they would be able to push othe top tiers to hard diff.
 
#32
I went back to look just to make sure and it’s honestly kinda hilarious how accurate the “nostalgia merchant” title is when it comes to posts like these

I advise anyone who thinks this is something Oda started recently to go back and reread Luffy vs Lucci in it’s entirety

It starts on chapter 409 and ends in chapter 427

19 chapters

In a 19 chapter span Luffy vs Lucci gets more than three pages of focus (not even fighting in every page, just them appearing so I’m being very generous) in only 9 chapters

As I said in my initial comment, over half of those took place at the end of the fight rather than the beginning

Another funny thing that I realized is Luffy vs Lucci only has a single chapter with as much focus as Loki got in 1181

Wanna guess what chapter that is? The very last chapter of the fight

I encourage anyone to go back and look if they think I’m lying. Almost every single chapter between 409 and 427 that has Luffy and Lucci in it at all (because they’re completely offscreen in half of those chapters) has them fighting or talking for 2-4 pages before cutting away to something else

This isn’t a new formula. You just weren’t reading weekly back then
 
#33
Loki vs Imu is actually on the higher tier as far as OP fights go. Oda been cutting away since forever but at least whenever we get Imu/Loki we see them throwing actually powerful attacks at each other instead of generic clang clang
 
#34
It's rare in one piece where we get full chapter of amazing battle scenes
It's always Oda method of writing, showing clashes one/two panel then focus on the other side, ppl yapping,
Flashback in mid fight where battle is going on.
 
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