Questions & Mysteries Who is Luffy's arc fight?

[kekaro]

Closest thing I can imagine is WCI where oda introduced subplot after subplot to get Big Mom away from Luffy so he can fight Katakuri.

I don’t think it’s happening cause feels like Luffy vs Imu is inevitable if personally prefer shamrock tbh because it feels too early for Luffy to fight Imu but that’s where we’re heading tbh

Big mom to Katakuri is really not comparable tho, Luffy never ever fought a for real thats why that "someday Goofy will fight bigmom in wano" cope even existed

Oda is not that complex of a writer when it comes to tension; he never de-escalates, like even where 85% of the shs were out in TB and the remaining ones would at that point be able to be defeated by dudes 2-3 arcs ago he sent in Kuma, a Warlord he took time to portray as superior to Moria prior

The only way i see a shamrock fight happening if he is getting defeated/repelled, is shamrock comes and he gets an Omen Buff PLUS imu posses him or something along those lines
Which sounds silly ass fuck

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Big mom to Katakuri is really not comparable tho, Luffy never ever fought a for real thats why that "someday Goofy will fight bigmom in wano" cope even existed

Oda is not that complex of a writer when it comes to tension; he never de-escalates, like even where 85% of the shs were out in TB and the remaining ones would at that point be able to be defeated by dudes 2-3 arcs ago he sent in Kuma, a Warlord he took time to portray as superior to Moria prior

The only way i see a shamrock fight happening if he is getting defeated/repelled, than shamrock comes and he gets an Omen Buff PLUS imu posses him or something along those lines
Which sounds silly ass fuck

It fully depends on Imu vs Loki. If Imus plan is to convert him like last chapter alluded to, then shamrocks return while Loki is a HK keeps tension high and saves Imu from having to fight current Luffy which would just lower his hype.

But as I said I don’t think it’ll happen because it would feel clunky as you said. But now that I think about it, that’s what happened last arc with Kizaru and the gorosei where Kizaru personally removed himself

 

[Shikoku]

Another Shanks getting clapped by bb soon Believer ?

Im rooting for Shanks, remember that he is very handsome & cool and BB is a fat smelly pig

also, remember this is a kids story, so we need to cement the fact that BBs father was bullied by Garling, so obviously he too will be bullied by Shanks now, people’s dreams always end with their family’s circumstances

 

[Fn Lucci]

people’s dreams always end with their family’s circumstances

Pretty sure this was the final message of Wano

 

[Dragon777]

Him leaving Elbaf was so lame. And tbh if Wings are stuck fighting HKs logically Luffy fighting the commander of them makes sense but he unfortunately yeah as of now he seems to have no reason to return since Imus here

Well, now we know why: him at Erbaf was simply to show him to us raders because of the coming FB.

(But yeah, very lame)

 

[kekaro]

Im rooting for Shanks, remember that he is very handsome & cool and BB is a fat smelly pig

also, remember this is a kids story, so we need to cement the fact that BBs father was bullied by Garling, so obviously he too will be bullied by Shanks now, people’s dreams always end with their family’s circumstances

Seemed to me in the past Zehahahahman did the bullying given shanks cortisols level around him

 

[kekaro]

Also by the by, Shamrocks superiors are already were shown wanting to go, and only didnt go by orders of imu (the suggestion before that was Admirals, not Shamrock or any other hk):

So Shamrock as an opponent is even more cap than i remembered

 

[Dragon777]

Also by the by, Shamrocks superiors are already were shown wanting to go, and only didnt go by orders of imu (the suggestion before that was Admirals, not Shamrock or any other hk):

So Shamrock as an opponent is even more cap than i remembered

Shamrock as an arc opponent made sense at the beginning of Erbaf, when we didn't know why he was there (narratively speaking) or who was going to be the arc villain.
Now why Shamrock was there was pretty clear (the coming FB) and the arc viallain is Imu himself, so no space for him.

I've always said Shamrock was and EoS villain anyway (likely Sabo's), so not surprised here.

 

[Sir Yasheen]

Well, now we know why: him at Erbaf was simply to show him to us raders because of the coming FB.

(But yeah, very lame)

But we didn’t need that because we already saw shamrock in the manga. As I said, oda introducing him, expanding his backstory, showing his ability, then just recalling him is incredibly lame storytelling

 

[kekaro]

Shamrock as an arc opponent made sense at the beginning of Erbaf, when we didn't know why he was there (narratively speaking) or who was going to be the arc villain.
Now why Shamrock was there was pretty clear (the coming FB) and the arc viallain is Imu himself, so no space for him.

I've always said Shamrock was and EoS villain anyway (likely Sabo's), so not surprised here.

Basically, yeah
As soon as he teleported away, him showing up as an enemy of the SHs this arc almost dropped to 0

But we didn’t need that because we already saw shamrock in the manga. As I said, oda introducing him, expanding his backstory, showing his ability, then just recalling him is incredibly lame storytelling

I always thought one of the reasons was for the grand reveal that it was infact not Shanks talking to the gorosei, no?
He even give him that cloak and everything before

 

[Dragon777]

But we didn’t need that because we already saw shamrock in the manga. As I said, oda introducing him, expanding his backstory, showing his ability, then just recalling him is incredibly lame storytelling

Before Erbaf there was still the doubt.

Sure, there was the mysterious silhouette of the Shanks' look alike, but plenty of people thought It was actually Shanks. Or a cousin or whatnot.
Not saying he wasn't theorized, I too did say Shanks had a brother, but he hadn't been seen.

Clearly Oda didn't want this to be revealed in a FB showing young Shamrock or even worst showing infant Shamrock during GV.
He wanted the big wow moment of the chapter in which Shamrock went to Erbaf, which he had.

Overall, sure: very lame, but only becuase this was simply a mean to officially present Shamrock to us before showing him in the arc FB.

 

[DarkWitch]

Also by the by, Shamrocks superiors are already were shown wanting to go, and only didnt go by orders of imu (the suggestion before that was Admirals, not Shamrock or any other hk):

So Shamrock as an opponent is even more cap than i remembered

That panel with Warcury was funny, man immediately gets up and was ready to get back into action again.

 

[centurion]

That panel with Warcury was funny, man immediately gets up and was ready to get back into action again.

the panel is even funnier if you read how Imu was chastising him in the OPscans translation

 

[nik87]

Luffy's main fight this arc is Zoro's popularity in the world poll.

 

[kekaro]

the panel is even funnier if you read how Imu was chastising him in the OPscans translation

I will never understand how people are gorosei stans
They give off so much filler aura its insane

 

[Shikoku]

I will never understand how people are gorosei stans
They give off so much filler aura its insane

they were actually pretty decent, pre TS, they had that mystery to them and gandhi and that blondie were expected for the longest to face the wings so the hype was building itself by the community, they also have a great one panel double spread in the manga for their introduction iirc

sadly they turned out to be regen merchants and old incompetent farts that couldn’t even handle the pisshats

their power levels are also not up there, so disappointing again

imagine 5 admirals or 5 yonkou pulling up to egghead, the series would end right there

 

[kekaro]

they were actually pretty decent, pre TS, they had that mystery to them and gandhi and that blondie were expected for the longest to face the wings so the hype was building itself by the community, they also have a great one panel double spread in the manga for their introduction iirc

sadly they turned out to be regen merchants and old incompetent farts that couldn’t even handle the pisshats

their power levels are also not up there, so disappointing again

imagine 5 admirals or 5 yonkou pulling up to egghead, the series would end right there

Oh im aware off ware of the old theories, im just talking about them currently.
As you said in egghead we were shown their personalities were interchangeable, copy-paste, and they are unskillfull fighters for the level they are supposed to be.

Like even if they are giga strong, they seems to be ass fighters like killingham and Super Sommers from the showings

Extreme fall off for characters oda introduced so early

 

[Monster Zoro's Tesla Supplier]

imagine 5 admirals or 5 yonkou pulling up to egghead, the series would end right there

no it wouldn't
this basically happened when all 3 admirals tried to chase and kill luffy in marineford and failed
obviously, normally, someone like kizaru could just rush over to luffy, cleave him in two with a light sword, then fuck off before anyone can do anything, but he didn't because oda simply didn't want him to
that's how plot armor is, and it doesn't matter if there were 5 imus at egghead, it'd still go down like it did

 

[soupongo]

Big mom to Katakuri is really not comparable tho, Luffy never ever fought a for real thats why that "someday Goofy will fight bigmom in wano" cope even existed

Oda is not that complex of a writer when it comes to tension; he never de-escalates, like even where 85% of the shs were out in TB and the remaining ones would at that point be able to be defeated by dudes 2-3 arcs ago he sent in Kuma, a Warlord he took time to portray as superior to Moria prior

The only way i see a shamrock fight happening if he is getting defeated/repelled, is shamrock comes and he gets an Omen Buff PLUS imu posses him or something along those lines
Which sounds silly ass fuck

Pretty much, logically Shamrock could return.... but narratively it doesn't really add up? It's not like there was an out of universe pre existing problem he needed to solve, it was introduced after he was on Elbaf.

If Shamrock ends up replacing Imcel as the Elbaf arc villain, I'll genuinely be surprised

 

[DarkWitch]

I will never understand how people are gorosei stans
They give off so much filler aura its insane

Wtf are you talking about? There aren't even that many Gorosei stans except for those like @Shiroyru and maybe a very few others.

Most who were jumping on the Gorosei bandwagon were either Yonko fans or some Admiral fans who were using the Gorosei to downplay the other side.

Actual Gorosei fans are in a very small minority, and it's kind of hard to be a huge fan of a group in which each Elder never had any central character focus with the exception of Saturn and Garling.

Also in defense of the Elders, no one and I mean no one on Egghead could truly handle the Elders, why else do you think the Giants, Bonney and the Pacfistas, the Vegapunks, and even Emet especially towards the end had to help the Straw Hats and Giants escape.

Again If it wasn't for Emet towards the end, the Straw Hats and the Giants would have been defeated for good.

Also we haven't even seen most of them in a full fight yet and three of the Elders have yet to even show off their hybrid forms.

Once we see them in action again in the future, in hopefully 1v1 fights, then we will know how strong they truly are compared to how they were handled back on Egghead.