Powers & Abilities Zoro : The Dark Horse of One Piece ?

The White Crane

The White Crane

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#485
#485
Ban Midou said:
@Aknolagon - Thanks for the great read... I do agree with most of the points mentioned in the thread.
I believe one of the most coolest thing about characters in one piece (especially Zoro) is the ability to grow stronger during a fight. In case of Zoro, how he learned flying slashes or cutting steel can be taken as examples.
So for a man who typically fought and trained almost continuously for two years under Mihawk, the power boost he got should be phenomenal.
But my expectations for the fights or character power up are really low for all the MCs now. (WCI ruined it for me. I was so hyped to learn about the Year of Sanji thinking he will be getting one on one fights like he did with Mr 2 or Jabra. Although it does not mean that WCI is a bad arc or anything of that sort.)

P.S - The amount of love and hate Zoro gets is just amazing. I mean look at the posts in this thread alone. Want to see what will the haters say if Zoro in deed does something amazing (like wounding Kaido/Big mom or reveal to have conqueror's haki) . Also what will the 'wankers' (pardon my language) do if Zoro gets his a** handed to him by any of the Yonkos. :) :) :) ... Hey, don't flame me, Zoro is my favorite character in all of OP. But honestly its the fan reactions (including mine) that makes reading this manga worth while.
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When Zoro damages BM and/or Kaido the haters will say: "BM/Kaido has been injured before! It's nothing special! Lolden/Lidd/Liller could do it too! Besides, it's not 1-on-1!"

When BM/Kaido gets a hit on Zoro: "Loro returns! Hurrrr durr!! Loro gets bellamied!!

When Zoro gets back up and continues to fight: "Lamazou/Liller >>> Laido/Big Meme! Oda doesn't like drawing Loro in a bad light! Oda wanks Loro to no end!!!"

Just my two cents. :cheers:
 
Shishi

Shishi

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#490
#490
Aknolagon said:
Edit: I forgot to mention this, i posted that on discord but not here.


"Currently in the acclaimed story of "Wano Kuni", Zoro made lots of noises by saving people, even got separated from Luffy and met with Kozuki Hiyori and Toko by coincidence. Knowing the horrific reality of Wano, will the wrath of his sword save Wano?! From now on, Zoro's activities will not be ignored"

Sorry if the thread is damn long, i actually said a lot but at the same time, i think i even forgot to say lots of things haha!
Anyways thanks if you read it to the end (sorry for the mistakes, not english native).
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Holy shit I didn't know this last portion existed. This is from the official website? :usoprice:
 
Shishi

Shishi

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#492
#492
Aknolagon said:
Yeah, coming from the official site :myman:
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Good writeup my friend :myman:

I'm not sure about Zoro being the deuteragonist for the entire series but he most definitely is for this arc. Zoro's spotlight just so happens to be in the arc where two yonko will fall. :cheers: . I do agree with the sentiment that his story importance is above the other crew members generally speaking.


There's a clear separation being made between the pirates fighting the emperors and everyone else. I think its two things: 1. their personal stake in taking down Kaido and 2. Their ambition.

Law's desire to learn the truth of the will of D
Luffy's ambition to become the Pirate King
Kidd with the same King's ambition and Killer being fiercely loyal to him to see it through (That being said, we might learn that Killer has his own separate ambition as well*)
and Zoro's ambition to become the WSS along with also being fiercely loyal to Luffy.

At a first glance, Zoro may look to be in the same position as Killer - back up for their captain. However, when you look at the entire arc that is not the case at all. Oda has been building up Zoro to have his own seperate desire to take down Kaido from the beginning, Chapter 997 made it clear as day and the official site seems to be hinting at more things to come :zorothink:
 
wereng99

wereng99

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#493
#493
Doggo said:
Still gonna finish reading, but there's something I want to point out.
During the beginning of the story, Zoro was already notorious as a Pirate Hunter. Luffy was nobody yet. No one knew him. That's why people assumed Zoro was the captain.
Gonna read the rest now.
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Zoro notorious only in east blue, in ennies lobby franky's underlig said why zoro isn't the captain too, at that time Luffy already got his bounty and higher than zoro at that..
 
wereng99

wereng99

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#495
Sadistic Senpai said:
Dark horse is a term described to "unfavorable team" who wins and reach the final

Zoro has always gotten the big favoritism by fans! He's no dark horse by any stretch
He's a dynasty

Dark horse would be something like Franky taking down Kaido because of a weapon he invented Lol
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Well what you said is half truth, do you know this fandom been saying "zoro wouldn't face kaido cause he's weak and so on".. so there's some truth by calling zoro is dark horse
 
Sadistic Senpai

Sadistic Senpai

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#496
#496
wereng99 said:
Well what you said is half truth, do you know this fandom been saying "zoro wouldn't face kaido cause he's weak and so on".. so there's some truth by calling zoro is dark horse
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The fact he's topic of discussion all the time negate the idea of dark horse

This is like big teams debating "your team sucks, it will lose, the other team will win"
When actually both team are big candidate for the title Lol
Of course you will see lots of people NOT wanting Zoro to do it

But him being brought as a topic to take down Kaido, thus ZKK was born is a huuuuge stan of people Lol
That ain't a dark horse!
 
wereng99

wereng99

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#497
#497
Sadistic Senpai said:
The fact he's topic of discussion all the time negate the idea of dark horse

This is like big teams debating "your team sucks, it will lose, the other team will win"
When actually both team are big candidate for the title Lol
Of course you will see lots of people NOT wanting Zoro to do it

But him being brought as a topic to take down Kaido, thus ZKK was born is a huuuuge stan of people Lol
That ain't a dark horse!
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You said "of course a lot of people not wanting zoro to do it" with your description of dark horse doesn't match while only zoro fans been saying he's gonna face kaido even as go far as ZKK
 
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