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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
June 25 2019 08:15 GMT
#29981
On June 24 2019 21:09 Archeon wrote:
That smile only produces dinosaurs is a bit boring though, since that reduces the number of things they can do instead of increasing them.

It doesn't. The only dinosaur users we've seen so far have all eaten actual DFs, not SMILE.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
Hyperbola
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2546 Posts
June 25 2019 12:28 GMT
#29982
Zoan fruits in general are boring. Sure you get some creativity like "pasta machine" but that's the exception, not the rule. Usually it's just a physical buff. Logias are even worse though, where you just become mud or some shit. Paramecia is where it's at.
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-26 02:14:02
June 26 2019 02:08 GMT
#29983
Like I mentioned earlier the impressiveness of zoansnwas pretty much neutered by “normal” bodied humans performing super human feats. One of the things saving zoans before was the ability of some to fly but even people like sanji can more or less fly now so they don’t even have that. Marco’s regen and Kaido being an op giant fucking dragon is about all I have going for them rn

TLDR zoans aren’t worth giving up your ability to swim in the OP world

Edit: the human human fruits seem overall more useful among the zoans too

edit 2: I think Minks also make zoans look even worse than before too. Minks are basically already the hybrid form which is the alleged "strongest" zoan form but then they have Sulong and Electro on top of that hybrid form leaving Zoans further behind
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Forikorder
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada8840 Posts
June 26 2019 03:39 GMT
#29984
On June 26 2019 11:08 Shellshock wrote:
Like I mentioned earlier the impressiveness of zoansnwas pretty much neutered by “normal” bodied humans performing super human feats. One of the things saving zoans before was the ability of some to fly but even people like sanji can more or less fly now so they don’t even have that. Marco’s regen and Kaido being an op giant fucking dragon is about all I have going for them rn

TLDR zoans aren’t worth giving up your ability to swim in the OP world

Edit: the human human fruits seem overall more useful among the zoans too

edit 2: I think Minks also make zoans look even worse than before too. Minks are basically already the hybrid form which is the alleged "strongest" zoan form but then they have Sulong and Electro on top of that hybrid form leaving Zoans further behind


the power creep is real
Hyperbola
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2546 Posts
June 27 2019 17:18 GMT
#29985
On June 26 2019 11:08 Shellshock wrote:
Like I mentioned earlier the impressiveness of zoansnwas pretty much neutered by “normal” bodied humans performing super human feats. One of the things saving zoans before was the ability of some to fly but even people like sanji can more or less fly now so they don’t even have that. Marco’s regen and Kaido being an op giant fucking dragon is about all I have going for them rn

TLDR zoans aren’t worth giving up your ability to swim in the OP world

Edit: the human human fruits seem overall more useful among the zoans too

edit 2: I think Minks also make zoans look even worse than before too. Minks are basically already the hybrid form which is the alleged "strongest" zoan form but then they have Sulong and Electro on top of that hybrid form leaving Zoans further behind

See the thing is, by that logic Devil fruits in general are kinda shit. Characters like Garp, Vergo, Mihawk, and Rayleigh are all crazy powerful AND can swim. Zoans, like you said, used to give you super strength but now you can just get super strength naturally. Logias used to give you immunity to physical attacks, but now that's negated by haki. And even Paramecias which are usually creative are most of the time just average. You obviously have exceptions like Law's Ope Ope no mi which allows you to do interesting things outside of battle. However, looking at something like Bellamy's Bane Bane no mi which just allows him to jump quickly or Mr. 2's Supa Supa no mi which allows him to turn his body into iron... well you can do all that shit with training and haki.

Notice how Big Mom's fruit powers just enabled her to instantly kill weaklings and how she relied on her physical strength to fight serious opponents? Notice how Kaido turned back into his human form to one-shot Luffy? Notice how all of Whitebeard's earthquake shock waves relied on his physical strength and could probably have been accomplished with an air slash like Mihawk? The Yonku don't even rely on their Devil Fruits that much. Blackbeard's the exception but the most use for his fruit is absorbing other people's devil fruits outside of combat.
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Shellshock
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States97276 Posts
June 27 2019 17:27 GMT
#29986
Yes I would say as we’ve gone further into the story devil fruits as a whole are less impressive. It’s all about Haki now
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Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-27 17:34:05
June 27 2019 17:32 GMT
#29987
Kind of obvious to me that Oda hadn't thought of Haki until quite late on. When Blackbeard's fruit is first introduced, one of the reasons he cites for wanting that particular fruit is being able to touch Logia users who "rely too much on their abilities". Ace is really surprised when BB touches him, too.

I guess the concept of Haki was necessary as Logias would just be impossible to beat otherwise (unless you had specific advantages like Luffy vs Enel or Akainu vs Ace), but it has spiraled out of control a bit to the point where it does seem like most fruits are really underwhelming unless they're useful outside of fights, or provide some advantage in them that Haki doesn't.
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Elentos
Profile Blog Joined February 2015
55561 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-27 18:47:19
June 27 2019 18:41 GMT
#29988
We'll see though. This is gonna be a Zoan focused arc after the really Paramecia focused Whole Cake Island. Oda is gonna have to come up with something to make them enticing. There's got to be a reason Kaido wants to have a full crew of people with the shittiest DF type with the least variety after all. Obviously Queen doesn't get to show much against Big Mom here, but maybe we'll see something cool later.

Regarding Haki, it's pretty unclear to me when he came up with armament. The other haki types are fairly obvious and Haki was first used as a term in Jaya.
Every 60 seconds in Africa, a minute passes.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-28 06:12:50
June 28 2019 06:09 GMT
#29989
On June 23 2019 03:41 Olli wrote:
Turns out I was right about Brachiosauri


What about now. Did that beautiful dive impress you? He learned from the best diver around (Kaido).

And Hyogoro and Luffy's antics are great.

On June 28 2019 02:32 Olli wrote:
Kind of obvious to me that Oda hadn't thought of Haki until quite late on. When Blackbeard's fruit is first introduced, one of the reasons he cites for wanting that particular fruit is being able to touch Logia users who "rely too much on their abilities". Ace is really surprised when BB touches him, too.

I guess the concept of Haki was necessary as Logias would just be impossible to beat otherwise (unless you had specific advantages like Luffy vs Enel or Akainu vs Ace), but it has spiraled out of control a bit to the point where it does seem like most fruits are really underwhelming unless they're useful outside of fights, or provide some advantage in them that Haki doesn't.


I mean Blackbeard's fruit is able to completely nullify someone's powers by touching them which is way better than just being able to hit them.
Forikorder
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada8840 Posts
June 28 2019 07:06 GMT
#29990
Notice how Big Mom's fruit powers just enabled her to instantly kill weaklings and how she relied on her physical strength to fight serious opponents?


what? no when shes serious she goes all out with her sword hat and zeus prometheus supporting
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
June 28 2019 07:25 GMT
#29991
Still not impressed. That weight fruit guy from pre-Alabasta could have done that stunt even better!
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
Forikorder
Profile Joined August 2011
Canada8840 Posts
June 28 2019 07:34 GMT
#29992
On June 28 2019 16:25 Olli wrote:
Still not impressed. That weight fruit guy from pre-Alabasta could have done that stunt even better!


was a girl actually
Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20254 Posts
June 28 2019 07:43 GMT
#29993
I mean Logias are still strong as hell. Even more so when they also have strong haki.

Paramecia are hit or miss and Zoans aren't as strong it seems unless they are one of the rare ones.

Devil fruits are still strong and most of the top power characters have or had one.
Never Knows Best.
Olli
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Austria24422 Posts
June 28 2019 07:47 GMT
#29994
On June 28 2019 16:34 Forikorder wrote:
Show nested quote +
On June 28 2019 16:25 Olli wrote:
Still not impressed. That weight fruit guy from pre-Alabasta could have done that stunt even better!


was a girl actually


Oh you're right. Was that Miss Sunday? Man that was a long time ago.
Administrator"Declaring anything a disaster because aLive popped up out of nowhere is just downright silly."
MaZza[KIS]
Profile Joined December 2005
Australia2110 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-28 09:03:14
June 28 2019 09:02 GMT
#29995
Retcon's and the like are an unfortunate fact of like for manga unfortunately. If you told oda to write a 1000 chapter manga from the start, he probably would have done things very differently.... how could he have known this thing was going to take off in the way that it has...

I really wanted a bigger opponent, like Nate Marquardt, or King Neptune, or Zeus, or Zeus and Fedor, or Fedor on Zeus's shoulders, and they can both punch but only Zeus can kick.
Slaughter
Profile Blog Joined November 2003
United States20254 Posts
June 28 2019 10:18 GMT
#29996
Didn't Shanks use Conq Haki in the 1st chapter? I mean Oda clearly didn't have well defined haki system like he does now but he clearly had the concept in mind from the start.
Never Knows Best.
Wala.Revolution
Profile Blog Joined November 2006
7584 Posts
June 28 2019 11:41 GMT
#29997
Miss Valentine. Robin was Miss (All) Sunday.
Stuck.
ZigguratOfUr
Profile Blog Joined April 2012
Iraq16955 Posts
June 28 2019 14:27 GMT
#29998
She only went up to 10 000 kg and brachiosauri weight 5 times that. So Queen is like five times better than this random Baroque Works agent.
sumsaR
Profile Joined January 2013
Sweden1812 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-06-28 15:55:14
June 28 2019 15:54 GMT
#29999
The big thing with Devil Fruits in general is that it's an "easy" way to get strength. Sure, there's plenty of natural people who are crazy powerful, but they didn't become that powerful by just eating apples. They had to work harder for it, compared to the guy who ate a powerful devil fruit.

In the beginning of OP, the powerful characters were mostly devil fruit users, due to the fact that they had eaten devil fruits. Turns out just eating a devil fruit to gain powers doesn't really cut it.
Sentenal
Profile Blog Joined December 2007
United States12398 Posts
June 28 2019 15:57 GMT
#30000
Zoan Fruits are about strength augmentation primarily, anyway. You can get strong normally, sure, but having that STR multiplier sure helps
"Apparently, Sentenal is a paragon of friendship and tolerance. " - Ech0ne
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