General & Others Powerscalers (Agenda Aside) is there a way that your favorite character can not be one of the strongest and that not be an issue for you?

#62
Reading One Piece like it solely exists as a team sport that revolves around interpreting vague indicators of fictional strength in relation to one another is genuinely psychotic behavior. I would hope that most powerscalers are capable of enjoying the story outside of that context.
You’re far too optimistic. A lot of powerscalers have already willfully embraced psychoses.
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It doesn’t matter to me. It’s never once mattered to me that Zoro is stronger than Sanji. If strength is the end-all and be-all of a character then it’s likely a terrible one.

It was actually horrifying to find out that a lot of people take the Zoro/Sanji thing as seriously as they do.
 

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#67
Reading One Piece like it solely exists as a team sport that revolves around interpreting vague indicators of fictional strength in relation to one another is genuinely psychotic behavior. I would hope that most powerscalers are capable of enjoying the story outside of that context.
Lost all investment and interest in this shitty manga a long time ago.
Solely reading it cuz i'm invested in seeing how certain agendas age.

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#70
It depends on the character.

Like @LolonoisZolo said, strength is integral to Zoro’s character so to fall well short of his own aspirations would be disappointing even as a reader.

With most others, it’s only secondary.
This means nothing
Zoro was never meant to surpass Yonko

His character and path is to be above Mihawk and ryuma...both aren't above Yonko
 
#72
This means nothing
Zoro was never meant to surpass Yonko

His character and path is to be above Mihawk and ryuma...both aren't above Yonko
Just not true lol.

You just love to gatekeep the Yonko when they are not as special as you guys believe.

EoS Zoro will have ACoC, 3 supreme grade black blades and likely a CoO power-up waiting and you think he’ll cap out as one of the weaker top tiers

Zoro’s trajectory since day 1 was to become one of the strongest ever, you just got blinded by this silly “underling” narrative
 
#74
My criterias for my favorite characters across any media is their #1 skillset & #2 narrative importance.

So I always prefer versatile characters that have at least high level of importance.

For example, in Final Fantasy terms, I'd prefer Red Mage & Blue Mage. In Dota terms, I'd choose Windrunner & Invoker.

In One Piece case, Sanji & Robin fits this criteria, so they're my top 2. Sanji is first simply because how deep & big Oda develops all parts of his character.
 
#75
There are 2 types of characters to like. One for their strength and abilities. Other for their characterization.

Fav characters based on strength for me - Kaido , Imu sama , law etc

Fav characters based on characterization for me - Blackbeard , Kuzan etc
 
#78
If u can read a story and u aren't totally insane, the only acceptable answer is: it doesn't matter

In my personal case i'm pretty lucky, because my favourite character, wb, was the strongest pirate. My favourite marine, garp, was the strongest marine. And their benchmark is roger, not an avarage mid admirals or mid yonko, and they will be surpassed 100% only by the protagonist and 2/3 more characters

So i don't even need to think about that "problem": i like them, i like how oda writes them, and in addition to that, they are the strongest in their gruop

Reading One Piece like it solely exists as a team sport that revolves around interpreting vague indicators of fictional strength in relation to one another is genuinely psychotic behavior. I would hope that most powerscalers are capable of enjoying the story outside of that context.
The fanbase (swordsmen, admirals and yonko) that always jerk on powerlevels have a mental disorder behavior

I'm pretty confident with that
 
#79
If Sanji ended up comparable to admirals but not stronger than any of them would that be an issue?
Depends on how it's written and it if it's consistent with the already established narratives and patterns in the story.
Sanji's growth is relative to Luffy's so wherever he ends up EoS PL wise depends on where Luffy caps, as long as Sanji's EoS PL is consistent with that, don't really care for the details (i.e. Sanji > Admiral/Yonko or Sanji == Admiral)

Or if he was clearly weaker than Zoro, would that upset you?
Depends on what you mean by clearly weaker.
Sanji is weaker than Zoro, that much is obvious to me at least so Zoro being stronger than Sanji EoS is expected for me at least.
That said, Zoro >> Sanji is a myth imo and is contrary to the narrative, so if for some odd reason, Oda decides to somehow bin the Zoro/Sanji dynamic that he's built up for god knows how many chapters then yup that would be terrible writing.
Long as Oda's consistent with what he's built up so far then I have no qualms with that.
 
#80
It certainly would not sit right with me.
Thematically Zoro is meant to become the WSS. Very likely the strongest swordsman there ever was.
If this does not also mean that he becomes part of the absolute strongest characters ever then its just weird, imo.

Thats means its a pretty clear "no" from me.
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These people follow a dogmatic belief that Mihawk is the strongest in universe
Cope and seethe.

Mihawk is canonically stronger than Shanks, Roger and so on.
Characters that are wanked to the high heavens and back. Assumed to have reached to epitome of power.
I do not particularly like Mihawk, nor am I fond of remote wank.
There are still undeniable things that put Mihawk in a league of his own and his fans reactions to this are normal and would be the same if it were any other character.
Luffy nika parallels were also enough to put EoS Luffy on a pedestal when hewasnot even able to 1v1 a top tier at that point.

I get it, fam, its not easy to be impartial.
 
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