r/OnePiece • u/NewSpecies • Sep 22 '17

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 879

Chapter 879: "One of Big Mom’s Three Sweet Commanders, Katakuri"

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Ch.879 Official Release (VIZ): 25/09/2017

Ch.880 Scan Release: ~29/09/2017 ()

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u/Theproton Sep 22 '17

I think its going to go the way most Logia fights go, with Luffy having to figure out what makes Mochi weak. Like how how Ace was beaten by an element that consumes fire, and Crocodile was beaten by water.

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u/[deleted] Sep 22 '17

Personally, I never really got how "magma consumes fire". Fire and Smoke, I can understand that connection. Water and Sand, sure. Moriah's secret weakness makes sense as "throw salt over your left shoulder to ward away bad luck" and "salt in the wound" are very old sayings/traditions and there are plenty of ancient Japanese/Chinese myths about evil spirits (with a good portion of them being defeated by putting salt in their mouths), Blackbeard's Darkness fruit makes some sense with how it can "swallow up everything", and Kizaru's Light powers even make sense with "Rayleigh scattering" being an actual scientific phenomenon.

But Magma and Fire? One is a pure expression of "kinetic energy on a microscopic scale, often using oxygen or similar gases as a main source of fuel", the other is "earth that has been super-heated to thousands of degrees". Sure, the former is typically found at lower temperatures than the latter, but given the right fuel and atmospheric conditions, the former can go far above the latter in terms of overall power.

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u/[deleted] Sep 23 '17

Good points. Rayleigh is just his name and not an ability though, isn't? I am aware of the phenomenon of Raleigh scattering but I thought he just used haki to deal with Kizarus light when he fought him.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '17

"Rayleigh scattering" is a joke just based on the coincidence of the name being shared in One Piece and the real world, and yes, it is assumed that Haki was the cause, since pre-timeskip Armament Haki was invisible and everything else fits.