Character Discussion Which portrayal will be better: Sanji 1v1 King/Queen or Zoro participation in the group fight against Kaido?

#81
Luffy temporarily knocked out kaido for a couple of seconds. All Zoro did was give kaido a cut that he laughed at. How are those feats comparable? They aren’t


You say sanji gets one shotted by kaido post wano because luffy did but that’s abc logic and doesn’t make sense. No one on the roof even got hit by thunder bagua yet besides luffy and Kidd.
???? Kaido got up like nothing happened after Luffy went all out while Zoro not only cut his scales, made him bleed and cough up blood more than Luffy did but he also overpowered Kaido's Tatsumaki..forcing him to use an even stronger version of it and then going hybrid

It's just as impressive
 
#82
Important question to ask, who says Sanji is getting a 1 vs 1 this arc? I still expect Drake to play a role with his fight with Queen- it might not be a 2 vs 1, it might be Drake has a go first then Sanji steps in to finish, but I’ll be surprised if Sanji takes on Queen clean.

The five on the roof (Zoro included, especially given how important he’s been this arc) and Marco are all getting better portrayal than Sanji this arc. To be part of the team that defeats Kaido (and have a decent chance of BM falling as well) is vastly more important than beating a Calamity. This is also more than likely Marco’s only chance to show off, so Sanji isn’t going to overshadow him in this arc.

There’s also a question of Yamato. If she’s to be a Strawhat, she’ll be portrayed lower than Sanji. If she’s not, and is being set up as a pirate captain in her own right, she could well be above him.

Reasonably safe to put Sanji above Jinbei, Drake and Hawkins in portrayal for Wano.

This post doesn’t even make sense. Instead of admitting sanji is fighting a calamity 1v1 your making up a scenario that doesn’t make sense. Sanji has been and always will be number 3 that’s why he is fighting king you can get mad at that all you want but that’s how it is. Sanji zoro and luffy always been way above the rest in combat and Oda isn’t changing that 24+ year dynamic because a couple of sanji haters on a forum believe so
 
#84
Sanji vs King's set up is more than their clash. It's the fucking plotline they're both involved in.



Oda used various arcs to develop a relationship between Sanji and Kinemon. With Sanji's only interest in Onigashma being Kinemon's and Momo's safety. And King's only interest being Kinemon's and Momo's demise. This is what is called proper set-up. Sanji countlessly fighting the hoardes to get to the scarbbards and protect them, whilst King constantly telling the F6 to finish the Samurai and them constantly failing. Leading to King finally deciding to get it done himself with Sanji finally being able to reach them. And them having their penultimate match.
Oh? But King is not going after any of these people right? It’s Sasaki who went after Momo and Black Maria is going after the scabbards. Is Sanji going to do anything about Black Maria or Sasaki? No.

In fact isn’t this the same argument around Sanji going to the roof? It’s Kaido who was beating the shit out of the scabbards. Sanji has a deep connection to the Kin’emon supposedly. So Sanji will go to the roof to fight Kaido. Kaido is also the one who is after Robin and also the one who was gonna kill Momo. Those are three things Sanji supposedly cares about. All three things in danger coming directly from Kaido. But Sanji won’t do shit to Kaido because that’s not his actual plot. He cares about Robin but he won’t do shit to Black Maria because that’s not his story. Robin will probably handle Black Maria herself. He saved Momo so he cares about Momo but he isn’t the one protecting Momo because that’s not his story. He cares about Kin’emon and company but obviously he’s not the one going to save them since he can’t beat Black Maria.

I can even go back to Sanji cares about Nami and yet he’s not the one who protected her from either Big mom herself or Ulti.

It seems time and again, “Sanji cares about X” has nothing to do with whether his story will lead to that specific outcome.

Now what’s interesting AND RARE is when someone else cares about Sanji. If for example Big mom on the roof said “Keep Robin alive and that cook who made that cake” even I would fold. That would be the moment even I would believe Sanji would go to the roof even though I know Sanji can’t harm anyone there.

See Black Maria has an interest in Sanji and that’s why the story actually put them together. Black Maria is exploiting a weakness of Sanji. They are connected via actual character and mutual interest in one another. And that’s why the story has put them together.

king has no interest in Sanji at least compared to Queen. And once again, these two are connected via actual character. And you better believe that Queen going on about “Judge’s son” and whatever his thing with Judge is will create a very specific interest from Sanji.

You know what, it’s easy. Let them meet. You at least agree that Queen will have to meet Sanji right? Well let’s wait and see what happens. Because what I know is that if they meet, there is no way this doesn’t escalate. As far as I can tell, the only way Sanji and Queen don’t fight is if they never meet.
 
#85
There's a fundamental problem in the way some readers and some others approach this issue, which is their understanding of fights and power dynamics in this manga. Some will believe that opening Kaido's scar or making him a new one would be an instantaneous statement on Zoro's overall strength, meaning he can defeat any enemy who can't perform such feat; I'm not among them, because that'd only say (without taking into consideration Enma's influence, which is still unclear) that Zoro has a higher attack power than those who tried and failed (not even armament haki, necessarily), but shining in one stat alone doesn't make you stronger overall. For example, Oven is stated to have the most durable body among the Charlotte children yet he's clearly inferior to the Sweet Commanders as a whole. There's a bias involved here too, because some stats are overestimated as more significant in establishing the power of a character; attack power and size of a technique being the most common.

If Zoro's main fight in Wano ends up this team effort while Sanji takes on King or Queen alone, we will have pretty much no ground to make any comparison and any approach tried will be probably fallacious to begin with, following unfounded reasonings like the one I just explained about over generalizing stats.
And this is the reason why Oda is doing this: we'll end up discussing forever :kayneshrug:

This post doesn’t even make sense. Instead of admitting sanji is fighting a calamity 1v1 your making up a scenario that doesn’t make sense. Sanji has been and always will be number 3 that’s why he is fighting king you can get mad at that all you want but that’s how it is. Sanji zoro and luffy always been way above the rest in combat and Oda isn’t changing that 24+ year dynamic because a couple of sanji haters on a forum believe so
There is still hope for ZoroGen :perocry:
 
#87
If you read what I said or had common sense then you would know that if sanji beats kaidos right hand a zoro participates in a team fight then Zoros bounty won’t be that much higher then sanjis if it is.


Sanji beats right hand of kaido with at least 1.3 billion beri bounty so it increases at least one billion since its kaidos right hand.


Zoro participates in a team fight against two yonko that means he also gets at least a one billion beri increase.


It’s not delusional it’s common sense and Oda already made a bounty joke with Zoro and sanji this arc he’s gonna do it again wheter it’s zoro or sanji with the higher one no one knows
@Lukegranders So it’s true then. You believe it’s actually possible for Sanji to have a higher bounty than Zoro this arc

okay. Wow. Make a thread about it. Hehehe. It will be fun when someone digs it up two years from now
 
#88
???? Kaido got up like nothing happened after Luffy went all out while Zoro not only cut his scales, made him bleed and cough up blood more than Luffy did but he also overpowered Kaido's Tatsumaki..forcing him to use an even stronger version of it and then going hybrid

It's just as impressive

Zoro never forced kaido into hybrid what the bell are you talking about? Luffy literally knocked kaido the fuck out. The same luffy that had kaido knocked out? Kaido literally laughed at Zoros attack and instantly healed. It’s not as impressive at all dont fucking lie. I swear to god this man luffy just knocked fucking kaido out for a couple of seconds yet your comparing a paper cut to that feat. Kaido laughed at Zoros attack for fucks sake what are we doing here
 

HA001

World's Strongest Swordsman
#89
There's a fundamental problem in the way some readers and some others approach this issue, which is their understanding of fights and power dynamics in this manga. Some will believe that opening Kaido's scar or making him a new one would be an instantaneous statement on Zoro's overall strength, meaning he can defeat any enemy who can't perform such feat; I'm not among them, because that'd only say (without taking into consideration Enma's influence, which is still unclear) that Zoro has a higher attack power than those who tried and failed (not even armament haki, necessarily), but shining in one stat alone doesn't make you stronger overall. For example, Oven is stated to have the most durable body among the Charlotte children yet he's clearly inferior to the Sweet Commanders as a whole. There's a bias involved here too, because some stats are overestimated as more significant in establishing the power of a character; attack power and size of a technique being the most common.

If Zoro's main fight in Wano ends up this team effort while Sanji takes on King or Queen alone, we will have pretty much no ground to make any comparison and any approach tried will be probably fallacious to begin with, following unfounded reasonings like the one I just explained about over generalizing stats.
utter tripe
zoro replicating/surpassing odens togen totskas power means he one shots king or queen
attack power is one of the most important stats of course
i mean kata hit luffy over 100 times and lost
kaido hit luffy once and kod him
kaido would also one shot king or queen with thunder bagura
 
#90
@Lukegranders So it’s true then. You believe it’s actually possible for Sanji to have a higher bounty than Zoro this arc

okay. Wow. Make a thread about it. Hehehe. It will be fun when someone digs it up two years from now
Yes it’s possible for a multitude of reasons. The only reason you think zoro will have a higher bounty is strength which is not what a bounty is or means
 
#92
Oh? But King is not going after any of these people right? It’s Sasaki who went after Momo and Black Maria is going after the scabbards. Is Sanji going to do anything about Black Maria or Sasaki? No.

In fact isn’t this the same argument around Sanji going to the roof? It’s Kaido who was beating the shit out of the scabbards. Sanji has a deep connection to the Kin’emon supposedly. So Sanji will go to the roof to fight Kaido. Kaido is also the one who is after Robin and also the one who was gonna kill Momo. Those are three things Sanji supposedly cares about. All three things in danger coming directly from Kaido. But Sanji won’t do shit to Kaido because that’s not his actual plot. He cares about Robin but he won’t do shit to Black Maria because that’s not his story. Robin will probably handle Black Maria herself. He saved Momo so he cares about Momo but he isn’t the one protecting Momo because that’s not his story. He cares about Kin’emon and company but obviously he’s not the one going to save them since he can’t beat Black Maria.

I can even go back to Sanji cares about Nami and yet he’s not the one who protected her from either Big mom herself or Ulti.

It seems time and again, “Sanji cares about X” has nothing to do with whether his story will lead to that specific outcome.

Now what’s interesting AND RARE is when someone else cares about Sanji. If for example Big mom on the roof said “Keep Robin alive and that cook who made that cake” even I would fold. That would be the moment even I would believe Sanji would go to the roof even though I know Sanji can’t harm anyone there.

See Black Maria has an interest in Sanji and that’s why the story actually put them together. Black Maria is exploiting a weakness of Sanji. They are connected via actual character and mutual interest in one another. And that’s why the story has put them together.

king has no interest in Sanji at least compared to Queen. And once again, these two are connected via actual character. And you better believe that Queen going on about “Judge’s son” and whatever his thing with Judge is will create a very specific interest from Sanji.

You know what, it’s easy. Let them meet. You at least agree that Queen will have to meet Sanji right? Well let’s wait and see what happens. Because what I know is that if they meet, there is no way this doesn’t escalate. As far as I can tell, the only way Sanji and Queen don’t fight is if they never meet.
Yh and Sasaki flopped in getting Momo, and so will BM flop when Robin intervenes and fucks her up.

First of all....dont even say "supposed" when it comes to Kinemon and Sanji's relationship. Sanji ditched Nami and didnt care about Kiku ( who Sanji still thinks it a woman ) for Kinemon. Sanji deeply cares for him and his plotline will obviously have something to do with Kinemon. Secondly Sanji has no time to fight Kaido or go after him, if King will go after the scarbbards once his fight with Marco reaches a conclusion.

Lmao Sanji's mind this arc is just Kinemon. He cares about Nami, but he left her safety to Usopp and trusted him with it. And I dont see how briniging up any of this is relevant. So what if Sanji cant save the people he cares about, that still doesnt mean he will magically stop caring and fight Queen over an insult.

Listen I leave this blunt for you, the only way Queen will fight Sanji, is if he goes after the scarbbards. If not then Sanji wont give a flying fuck about him. Stop trying to do mental gymnastics and look at the plot objectively. Which is Sanji literally ignoring everyone to get to the scarbbards and protect them.
 

HA001

World's Strongest Swordsman
#93
Zoro never forced kaido into hybrid what the bell are you talking about? Luffy literally knocked kaido the fuck out. The same luffy that had kaido knocked out? Kaido literally laughed at Zoros attack and instantly healed. It’s not as impressive at all dont fucking lie. I swear to god this man luffy just knocked fucking kaido out for a couple of seconds yet your comparing a paper cut to that feat. Kaido laughed at Zoros attack for fucks sake what are we doing here
kaido- arrrgh that hurts

lukegotnobrain kaido laughed at zoros attack
 

RayanOO

Lazy is the way
#94
utter tripe
zoro replicating/surpassing odens togen totskas power means he one shots king or queen
attack power is one of the most important stats of course
i mean kata hit luffy over 100 times and lost
kaido hit luffy once and kod him
kaido would also one shot king or queen with thunder bagura
AP and durability are important stats but they are not everything.

Kata roasted Luffy most of the fight. And Luffy had better AP and better endurance than Kata at the beginning of the fight.

But Kata COO, skills and versatility trump all that.

Begining of the fight Luffy was barely nothing to Kata. Luffy only began to be a threat when he developed his other skills : FS.

And even with FS Luffy was below Kata.

In a fair fight Kata would have dusted Luffy.
 

HA001

World's Strongest Swordsman
#96
AP and durability are important stats but they are not everything.

Kata roasted Luffy most of the fight. And Luffy had better AP and better endurance than Kata at the beginning of the fight.

But Kata COO, skills and versatility trump all that.

Begining of the fight Luffy was barely nothing to Kata. Luffy only began to be a threat when he developped his other skills : FS.

And even with FS Luffy was below Kata.

In a fair fight Kata would have dusted Luffy.
yet
12 hits to 100 plus hits
and the one with 12 won
its unarguable how important it is
 

HA001

World's Strongest Swordsman
#98
If he hit him directly while he doesn't defend himself. That is quite different.
Zoro always needed one good hit to defeat his opponents, even the ones around his level.
defend themselves how ?
you think even if they use their bodies/swords/haki king or queens defense is better than kaidos
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If you can't land those hits it's not important if you're stronger or more lethal.
in what world are king or queen gonna go a full fight without being hit by zoro once ?
 
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