Guys, listen.
The whole raid dynamic is going as the majority of the readers aspected.
There is just one thing that seems off to me: Inu vs Jack.
It's clear that the main villains of this arc are the Beast Pirates and not the Big Mom Pirate, so the main characters should been defeated by the SH.
And, in fact, we have:
- Luffy vs Kaido
- (probably) Zoro vs King
- Sanji vs Queen
- Jimbe vs Who's Who
and so on.
With the others Supernova taking Big Mom or each other (Kidd and Law vs Big Mom, Hawkins vs Killer and X-Drake vs Apoo).
Even Perospero was just throw off the stage by Sanji and Neko will take care of him.
Considering all of this, I find strange that the 4° strongest Beast Pirate won't have a SH as opponent.
If Yamato has to join the crew, I think there are consistent chances that after stalling Kaido for a little bit (just for the time Luffy return to kicking his ass in Gear 5) she will be in a situation in which she will save Inu and face off hybrid Jack.
Inu soloing Jack would seem out of place to me.
What do you guys think about it?
It's a legitimate observation. The way I'm going about it is exactly the way I'm going about it with Zoro vs King and now officially Sanji vs Queen.
I havw told people that the arc will throw curveballs in terms of matchups for quite some time before official matchups or done. Let's use some prime examples so far:
- Chopper: Fought Queen, now its not his fight.
- Marco: Was fighting Big Mom at first, then fought King and Queen together, now is holding off King alone.
- Sanji: Was first pitted against Black Maria in Chapter 997. Was stuck with her until 1005. 10 chapters later he is fighting Queen
- Yamato: Encountered Ulti and fought her twice, fought Sasaki, and now is fighting Kaido. At this point we still don't know if the matchuo is decidedly permanent since especially this chapter, it makes it plainly obvious that Luffy will be the one to defeat Kaido.
- Zoro: Was on the roof for 10 chapters and is now in the performance floor getting healed.
- Law: Fought Kaido, then Big Mom, then Kaido, now back to Big Mom lol
Out of all of this, Sanji is the only one who's seemed finalized. We don't know where Chopper will go after healing Zoro. We can't say Yamato and Marco will permanently fight those opponents since Luffy has dibs on one (unless they double team him) and the other is very likely reserved for Zoro since Sanji is fighting Queen. Law is an interesting case too.
I'd say what we need to wait for is confirmation that Jack is going to defeat Inu. Once that happens, he must be stopped by someone, be it Killer, Law, Yamato, or anyone else is not busy and can handle him.
Because it's very much strawhat centric, and because I do think Yamato is joining, I do think it still can be her. Just like Zoro going to the roof and fighting Kaido, but in the end coming back down to handle King. It's very possible Kaido has his big moments with Yamato, but then she feels compelled to help Inu for some plot reason if Jack wins. Can't overthink these things until they either happen or don't though. We'll see what happens
