One of the problems I have with BB is that it seems like Oda can’t decide if BB is really a master schemer or dumbass who gets very lucky. Let’s look at BB’s various plans throughout the series.
His very first plan in his quest to conquer the world was to just hope that he’d stumble upon the Yami one day. Not exactly a clever plan.
His second plan was to become a Warlord so he could go to Impel Down and recruit the strongest Level 6 prisoners. He didn’t have a defined plan for how he’d do this until he noticed Luffy rising quickly as a pirate and decided that turning in Luffy could give him an invite to the Warlords. If BB went with his original plan, he’d have just straight up died at ID since he’d get trashed by Magellan, and Shiryu wouldn’t be roaming around to save him. If BB didn’t get lucky and have Ace hunt him down (something which he seemingly didn’t plan for), he would have died. Even if he somehow didn’t die at ID, he wouldn’t be able to steal the Gura as quickly as he did since WB wouldn’t go to MF.
His third plan was to jump a severely weakened WB and steal his fruit. BB got his ass kicked by a 2 HP WB and would’ve died if WB was just slightly more healthy. He also probably would’ve been killed by the Marines if Shanks didn’t stop the war.
His 4th plan was to use Bonney as bait to steal a Marine battleship. This ended up failing spectacularly since Akainu came to capture Bonney and the BBPs had to run away.
Now let’s look at BB’s post-TS plans, which have been really bad and underwhelming so far.
1. Send Burgess by himself to secure the Mera, a very powerful fruit. We all know how well that went.
2. Sail all the way to Amazon Lily, with only Devon and Shot as backup, to steal the Mero, and presumably make it his 3rd DF? The Mero is a good fruit, but it’s certainly not on the same level as the Yami and Gura, and idk why BB thought it’d be a good fit for him. He ended up failing to secure the Mero. He did manage to steal Coby, but he had no way of knowing Coby would be there, so this is just another example of BB getting lucky.
3. Use Coby as blackmail so that the WG will be forced to make him a king. Does anyone really believe that this would have worked out as BB intended? Even Kuzan didn’t think it would. BB got super lucky that Coby was actually Garp’s protege (something he couldn’t have possibly known), and that Garp himself decided to go to Hachinosu to free Coby. BB ended up having Coby traded for Garp, which works out much better for him since Garp is a much better bargaining chip, but again, this was pure luck for BB
4. Jump whichever one of the Kid, Heart, or SH Pirates went on the route to Winner Island to steal their RP rubbings, but bring only Burgess, Augur, and Doc Q as backup. Sure, if he ran into the Kid or Heart Pirates, he could beat them fairly easily and get their rubbings, but if he ran into the SHPs, he’d have died. I have current BB beating current Luffy high/extreme diff, but the rest of the SHs would make short work of Burgess, Augur, and Doc Q and help Luffy beat BB
Also, it’s super weird how BB doesn’t seem to have any particular fruit in mind for his 3rd DF. First, he tried to get the Mero of all fruits. Then he considered stealing the Ope for himself, which would be a good pick since it is a top 5 fruit, but it didn’t even seem like that was his intention from the get-go when he jumped Law. Seems like BB may just get lucky again and stumble upon a Mythical Zoan God Fruit
His very first plan in his quest to conquer the world was to just hope that he’d stumble upon the Yami one day. Not exactly a clever plan.
His second plan was to become a Warlord so he could go to Impel Down and recruit the strongest Level 6 prisoners. He didn’t have a defined plan for how he’d do this until he noticed Luffy rising quickly as a pirate and decided that turning in Luffy could give him an invite to the Warlords. If BB went with his original plan, he’d have just straight up died at ID since he’d get trashed by Magellan, and Shiryu wouldn’t be roaming around to save him. If BB didn’t get lucky and have Ace hunt him down (something which he seemingly didn’t plan for), he would have died. Even if he somehow didn’t die at ID, he wouldn’t be able to steal the Gura as quickly as he did since WB wouldn’t go to MF.
His third plan was to jump a severely weakened WB and steal his fruit. BB got his ass kicked by a 2 HP WB and would’ve died if WB was just slightly more healthy. He also probably would’ve been killed by the Marines if Shanks didn’t stop the war.
His 4th plan was to use Bonney as bait to steal a Marine battleship. This ended up failing spectacularly since Akainu came to capture Bonney and the BBPs had to run away.
Now let’s look at BB’s post-TS plans, which have been really bad and underwhelming so far.
1. Send Burgess by himself to secure the Mera, a very powerful fruit. We all know how well that went.
2. Sail all the way to Amazon Lily, with only Devon and Shot as backup, to steal the Mero, and presumably make it his 3rd DF? The Mero is a good fruit, but it’s certainly not on the same level as the Yami and Gura, and idk why BB thought it’d be a good fit for him. He ended up failing to secure the Mero. He did manage to steal Coby, but he had no way of knowing Coby would be there, so this is just another example of BB getting lucky.
3. Use Coby as blackmail so that the WG will be forced to make him a king. Does anyone really believe that this would have worked out as BB intended? Even Kuzan didn’t think it would. BB got super lucky that Coby was actually Garp’s protege (something he couldn’t have possibly known), and that Garp himself decided to go to Hachinosu to free Coby. BB ended up having Coby traded for Garp, which works out much better for him since Garp is a much better bargaining chip, but again, this was pure luck for BB
4. Jump whichever one of the Kid, Heart, or SH Pirates went on the route to Winner Island to steal their RP rubbings, but bring only Burgess, Augur, and Doc Q as backup. Sure, if he ran into the Kid or Heart Pirates, he could beat them fairly easily and get their rubbings, but if he ran into the SHPs, he’d have died. I have current BB beating current Luffy high/extreme diff, but the rest of the SHs would make short work of Burgess, Augur, and Doc Q and help Luffy beat BB
Also, it’s super weird how BB doesn’t seem to have any particular fruit in mind for his 3rd DF. First, he tried to get the Mero of all fruits. Then he considered stealing the Ope for himself, which would be a good pick since it is a top 5 fruit, but it didn’t even seem like that was his intention from the get-go when he jumped Law. Seems like BB may just get lucky again and stumble upon a Mythical Zoan God Fruit
