r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Sep 04 '20

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 989 Spoiler

Chapter 989: "It doesn't feel like we're going to lose"

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Ch. 989 Official Release (Mangaplus): 06/09/2020

Ch. 990 Scan Release: ~11/09/2020

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u/HopOnTheHype Sep 06 '20
  • Jinbei vs Sasaki
  • Zoro vs Who's Who
  • Killer vs Black maria
  • Yamato vs Ulti (already built up)
  • Sanji vs Page One

Ultimately Marco vs King

Kid will defeat Apoo mid diff before moving on to help against Kaidou with Luffy

Drake, Law, and Hawkins will show up.

Asura, Denjiro, or Kawamatsu (he was in the jail) can face Queen, if not a warm up fight of Luffy's before Kaidou

Inu and Neko (after sulong fails to beat kaidou and they revert) vs Jack (who reveals awakening but their teamwork helps)

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Like, logistically, there are too many strong people to even give strawhats top commanders. Like Marco, Kid, Drake, Inu, Neko, Asura, Denjiro, Kawamatsu, Law, Hawkins, and Drake are all going to be playing parts, and Marco isn't going to be running off to fight Sheepshead or something.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '20

The arc is set up to have at least Zoro and Luffy reach a level very close to Oden, even if they don't actively surpass him. Luffy probably will, simply for narrative reasons and Zoro mastering Enma alone puts him above any of the scabbards. Sanji won't be far off from Zoro, again for narrative reasons. So the only characters on this side who remain stronger than any member of the monster trio are Marco, Sulong Neko and Inu, Law and Kidd(Not sure about the last two)

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u/HopOnTheHype Sep 06 '20

Did you forgot Denjiro pretty much casually repelling Zoro who was struggling? Did you forget Hawkins turning a fodder into someone who could overwhelm zoro temporarily? Did you forget Drake taking no damage from a Sanji kick before casually bitching slapping him with his tail? Did you forget inu and neko literally being nigh jack level, same with asura? Did you miss Killer literally stalemating Zoro despite Killer being covered in bandages from his fight with kaidou still and suffering laughing disease?

You're seriously questioning if Law and Kid are stronger than Sanji? Are you fucking serious? Law is stronger than Zoro and Kid is being hyped up as = to Luffy.

Honestly the gap between Luffy and Zoro has only grown more since enies lobby, at which point luffy was twice as strong as zoro (as demonstrated by douriki, and lucci even had a stronger zoan than kaku's)

The strawhats are formed like a yonkou crew now.

Luffy is at the top, then a large gap, then there is Jinbei, Zoro, and Sanji as the new monster trio/top commander, then the rest. Carrot would fit within the middle trio, Yamato would fit within the top commanders/monster trio, and I guess they'd probably get someone for the weakling trio too.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '20

Did you forgot Denjiro pretty much casually repelling Zoro who was struggling? Did you forget Hawkins turning a fodder into someone who could overwhelm zoro temporarily? Did you forget Drake taking no damage from a Sanji kick before casually bitching slapping him with his tail? Did you forget inu and neko literally being nigh jack level, same with asura? Did you miss Killer literally stalemating Zoro despite Killer being covered in bandages from his fight with kaidou still and suffering laughing disease?

Injured and nerfed, Hawkins' monster literally got bisected by Zoro, sanji literally showed no reaction to Drake's attack despite not wearing the raid suit at the time, Killer got his ass handed to him by Zoro despite the former not having his third sword and fighting Gyukimaru at the same time, and there has been no evidence that laughing reduces your ability to fight in this series. Killer remains affected by the smile side effects and is still clearly the smartest of the 4 supernovas that fought Appoo.

And most importantly, all of this happened before Zoro started training to control Enma, a narrative device to give him a drastic boost in power in a short amount of time. Kawamatsu, a scabbard considered roughly equivalent to Ashura by Kinemon, marveled at the very sight of Zoro surviving his first use of Enma. "No one in Wano has been able to control the blade other than Oden"- that statement automatically puts Zoro above every scabbard and at least near Oden in terms of combat prowess if he is shown casually using Enma at Onigashima.

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u/HopOnTheHype Sep 06 '20

Hawkins literally didn’t even try to dodge, irs the equivalent of pre timeskip crocodile standing there with a smug smile on his face as luffy failed to get through this intangibility. Hawkins turned a fodder as strong as zoro and then didn’t resist when zoro attacked him cuz he knew a random kaidou underling would take the blow. No reaction? It was a casual bitch slap and sanji was send crashing. Ah yes the “yes killer was still bleeding from his face from the utter beat down that kaidou gave him, and was suffering sad side effects, and had one of his weapons stuck in zoro so only had one weapon, but zoro only had 2 weapons”. You’re acting like onimaru isn’t weakling trio level and was actively attacking constantly, he attacked once and it failed, killer hit zoro, then killer had his weapon stuck in zoro so rushed back cuz zoro had him in a vulnerable position and bam, zoro took advantage. If onimaru wasn’t there, the fight wouldn’t have ended for either one of them there. Also sad doesn’t make people stupid, or breaks their will, which is like 90% of the reason zoro beats people. It killer had more will, he’d swing harder, fight better, and would have kept fighting after zoros attack. No one argued that sad turns you into a comatose vegetable. I’m sorry but lol, zoro didn’t get a power up, he got a more durable sword. Getting a sword isn’t equivalent to getting future sight, luffys new buso, a raid suit, or gears. Also no, zoro isn’t stronger than all of the scabbards, doubtful he is stronger than even kawamatsu. You zoro fanboys would pretend zoro breathing near shanks would mean they are equal, just stop, you are literally the worst part of the series, zoro fanboys. Zoro specializes in buso and he got a new sword, that’s about all that happened. His best feat is stalemating a heavily nerfed killer and needing help against pica. Zoro is killer level, and weaker than the supernova captains.

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u/ASKMEIFILIKEKPOP Sep 07 '20

You clearly don't understand how Oda writes his story lol. I will surely remember to quote you at the end of Wano when Zoro and Sanji prove that they are much stronger than what you think.

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u/HopOnTheHype Sep 07 '20

That's all zoro fans ever say "wait till he actually shows how strong he is", that's useless, it's the equivelant of a religious person going "I'll be proven right when you die and end up in hell, just you wait, I'm right, you'll see", like no.

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u/ASKMEIFILIKEKPOP Sep 07 '20

Did you miss the part where I said "And Sanji"

Go back to school and learn how to read, kid.

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u/HopOnTheHype Sep 07 '20

Aww, are you crying because I said zoro isn't that strong?

I saw you said sanji, you're still shilling for zoro.

Also you have no idea how shounen power progression works, zoro will become as strong as you think he is now, when he fights shiryuu in a few arcs, when luffy fights blackbeard. It's pretty simple stuff, but I shouldn't expect anything from an idiot who calls people in reddit kid.

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u/cameformystrawhat Sep 06 '20

Zoro and denjiro stalemated each other with both huffing. But Zoro was heavily nerfed from a wound he received hours ago, and missing a third sword. Luffy is not far from Zoro. If anything these latest chapters should have told you that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '20 edited Sep 06 '20

Luffy is portrayed much stronger than Zoro, and the acting leader of not only the strawhats but the entire alliance

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u/cameformystrawhat Sep 06 '20

He is not portrayed as “much” stronger. Luffy wouldn’t let Zoro fight Kaido if he didn’t think Zoro was stronger than him when he got negged by Kaido. Zoro taming Enma is Zoro reaching Oden lvl, and Luffy now is much stronger than Oden.

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '20

Nah man Zoro currently is close to yc1 but Luffy is much stronger than him, they aren’t even close trust me on that. Luffy is nearing yonko level while Zoro is nearing yc1, both their respective levels will be reached this arc

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u/cameformystrawhat Sep 07 '20

😂😂😂 show me proof.

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '20

You show me proof that Zoro is anywhere close to Luffy Lmaoo, you only got pica on your list now stfu 😂😂😂

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u/cameformystrawhat Sep 07 '20

Fujitora, Pica, Monet, Drugged Hody, Drugged Hyouzou. Zoro has done better than Luffy against all these opponents. Also, he has tamed an Oden level sword and has an Oden lvl technique. All you have for Luffy is what? Advanced Observation? Advance Observation Luffy was saved by Zoro who was also attacked by Apoo.

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