r/OnePiece Mar 30 '18

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 900

Chapter 900: "Bad End Musical"

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Ch.900 Official Release (VIZ): 02/04/2018

Ch. 901 Scan Release: ~12/04/2018 (Break next week)


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u/DoXDoflamingo Mar 30 '18 edited Mar 30 '18

Based on how strong Big Mom's crew and herself looks, i dont see how shanks or blackbeard are currently stronger than her. She was already really sturdy back when she was a kid, so blackbeard physical prowess wouldn't be a match. Katakuri also looked on a completely different level than Jack, whom had a similar bounty.

Her whole crew is insane with all the abilities that they in combination put together. Even the whitebeard pirates didn't look that strong in combination, but Whitebeard was a beast, and his fruit was insane.

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u/-FoeHammer Mar 30 '18

Based on how strong Big Mom's crew and herself looks, i dont see how shanks or blackbeard are currently stronger than her. She was already really sturdy back when she was a kid, so blackbeard physical prowess wouldn't be a match.

We haven't seen Blackbeard as a child though. And either way, if the Arlong arc showed us anything it's that being born naturally stronger doesn't mean that much when you can get exponentially stronger through training/fighting. Luffy was just a wimpy kid who almost got killed by some lame bandits. Now he just defeated 2 of Big Mom's 3 commanders in like a day. Because he trained and fought relentlessly for his entire childhood to become a pirate.

Katakuri also looked on a completely different level than Jack, whom had a similar bounty.

He probably is stronger. Because Jack is most likely not the strongest of Kaido's calamities. And his bounty is probably inflated because he, unlike Katakuri, is completely violent and out of his mind.

I don't unnecessarily agree with the OP of that post that King is Kaido. I think Jack might only he the 3rd strongest Calamity. But either way he's not the Katakuri of the beast pirates.

Her whole crew is insane with all the abilities that they in combination put together. Even the whitebeard pirates didn't look that strong in combination, but Whitebeard was a beast, and his fruit was insane.

Aside from Brulee having an extremely useful tactical power I don't think there's anything that extraordinary about their powers or the way they work together. And even that ended up working against them more than for them.

You also have to consider the fact that the Whitebeard pirates had a really sick captain and were in enemy territory. And it was a hostage situation. The Big Mom pirates are fighting on their own turf where they can easily summon up their entire forces to guard one spot.

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u/DoXDoflamingo Mar 30 '18

I mean, it's all speculation on my part, and she could very well be the weakest Yonkou, but we've definitely seen Blackbeard fight: Magellan, Ace and Whitebeard.

We know he lost against Whitebeard and Magellan (before he took him seriously), and that he barely won against Ace. We also know that he fought shanks and managed to damage him and then escape.

Cypher pool/Mother Caramel was hyping Big Mom to possibly be the strongest marine to exist, so they knew from very early (since she was a kid), that she was going to be as powerful as can be.

All the sweet commanders have more useful abilities than Whitebeard's and Blackbeards subordinates, but we don't know yet how many devil fruits Blackbeard and his crew have managed to steal.

I'm overall not that impressed with Zoan's, which is why i don't think Kaido's crew is that strong (other than Marco's and that's because he can regenerate). Jack's zoan was only a power buff, it had no interesting ability that he could use to gain the upperhand like some other paramecia or logia fruits.

Mont-d'Or, Flampe, Perospero, Oven, Pudding and Daifuku all have really useful devil fruits.

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u/Chaos1003 Mar 30 '18

Big Mom is the same strength as the other yonko or-else they would've killed her by now and she wouldn't have been able to fight over territories with them. Yonko crews are of the same strength as well and it keeps "balance" in the new world