With Kizaru's fleet arriving, there has been some debate recently regarding the strength of the vice admirals and if they could offer a serious fight for Zoro or the other top SHs.
While I do believe that Oda could easily make some of the VAs YC1 level and above, I realized it might be better to air on the side of caution with these things. Too often are new characters hyped up only to revealed to be much weaker than predicted.
Rather, I'd like to speculate on the seraphim being the main opponents for the top SHs. The seraphim, as we know, already have a significant amount of hype behind them. The only issue with them is that we've already been shown that they aren't a threat to Zoro or Sanji.
S-Hawk ran from Zoro and Kaku and S-Shark couldn't even damage Sanji. For these fights to have any hype to them, imo the seraphim need to be aged up. Otherwise they will be nothing but punching bags for Zoro, Sanji, and Jinbe.
That's where I think Saturn will come in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology)
In mythology, one of Saturn's attributes was time. Therefore, I think its very likely that Saturn could have time powers and would be able to age up the seraphim. I think these time powers could come from his DF, which is no doubt a mythical zoan.
Alternatively, these time powers could come from technology, as Saturn is the god of scientific defense.
Saturn said that he no longer has any use for Bonney. What use did he have for her in the past? One possibility is her DF. Perhaps Saturn built some sort of DF based off Bonney's DF powers.
In any case, I think adult Seraphim would be extremely compelling side villains and would make for awesome battles for Luffy's top 3. I know Zoro vs adult S-Hawk, at least, will be something that will be very hype and will probably satisfy Zoro fans who wished for him to instead fight Kizaru this arc.
While I do believe that Oda could easily make some of the VAs YC1 level and above, I realized it might be better to air on the side of caution with these things. Too often are new characters hyped up only to revealed to be much weaker than predicted.
Rather, I'd like to speculate on the seraphim being the main opponents for the top SHs. The seraphim, as we know, already have a significant amount of hype behind them. The only issue with them is that we've already been shown that they aren't a threat to Zoro or Sanji.
S-Hawk ran from Zoro and Kaku and S-Shark couldn't even damage Sanji. For these fights to have any hype to them, imo the seraphim need to be aged up. Otherwise they will be nothing but punching bags for Zoro, Sanji, and Jinbe.
That's where I think Saturn will come in.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_(mythology)
In mythology, one of Saturn's attributes was time. Therefore, I think its very likely that Saturn could have time powers and would be able to age up the seraphim. I think these time powers could come from his DF, which is no doubt a mythical zoan.
Alternatively, these time powers could come from technology, as Saturn is the god of scientific defense.
Saturn said that he no longer has any use for Bonney. What use did he have for her in the past? One possibility is her DF. Perhaps Saturn built some sort of DF based off Bonney's DF powers.
In any case, I think adult Seraphim would be extremely compelling side villains and would make for awesome battles for Luffy's top 3. I know Zoro vs adult S-Hawk, at least, will be something that will be very hype and will probably satisfy Zoro fans who wished for him to instead fight Kizaru this arc.
