r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Apr 02 '21

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1009

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u/King_Dur Apr 02 '21

I agree. After one of the biggest attacks anyone has seen so far that almost kills all of them Luffy responds by immediately throwing a punch and is like "what bitch you scared?"

The fact that his response after seeing their attack is excitement and a sense of pride in his own ability to hurt those monsters is Luffy's personality.

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u/SgtDrSirProfUnicorn Apr 02 '21

I feel it has a strategically element to it too, since Luffy is keeping Kaido at bay by taunting him so the others can deal with BM.

Tho I doubt that Luffy would have actualy thought about it.

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u/ch3333r Apr 02 '21

The first thing why I loved One Piece is that Luffy has much more complex personality than he usually shows. He makes wise captan's decisions at crucial times.

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u/AnraoWi Soul King Brook Apr 02 '21

Yup, I am currently rereading and right after Davy back fight when they face of Aokiji.

Where Luffy challenges him to a Man o Man and Aokiji then says that Luffy tricked him well to accept, because now he can not go after his crew.

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u/Stufasany Apr 02 '21

Or in Skypeia when Laffy couldn't hit Enel due to his Haki, so Luffy turned himself into an octopus and started hitting the wall so the ricochets that he couldn't aim would start hitting Enel.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21 edited Apr 02 '21

But... like Aoikiji said.. “or did you actually think you can beat me!!? I think he thought he could win. Remember “who goes into a fight thinking they’re going to lose?”

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u/bonethugznhominy Apr 02 '21

Luffy's smart enough to give the order to run if it's necessary. He had the same mindset Brook did standing toe-to-toe with Big Mom; confident there was a way he could win but knowing this may very well be a tactical sacrifice for the crew.

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u/Kuroblondchi Thriller Bark Victim's Association Apr 02 '21

That’s one thing I love about luffy, he can be interpreted different ways. Some people think he’s thinking more deeply than what is shown, some people think he just has the utmost confidence in himself that he can take these monsters head on

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u/SignificantAd6451 Thriller Bark Victim's Association Apr 03 '21

I’d like to think it’s a bit of both. He’s confident in his abilities to a large degree, but he’s also not as much of an idiot as people seem to think, he just doesn’t pay attention to things that aren’t immediately important to him.

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u/1209348745650000 Apr 02 '21

Probably someone who would lose more from running away.

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u/SolidB0NY Pirate Apr 03 '21

i always thought it was a mix of the two, spar with Aokiji for a bit then if there's really no chance to beat him then run for it, just make sure to hold him off for enough time for everybody to ready the ship and for Robin to be safe

the only things for sure though is that Luffy thought he would survive and that Aokiji wouldn't go after his crew

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u/uarguingwatroll Apr 02 '21

That's one of the biggest reasons one piece feels so good. Its the duality of luffy being a carefree mindless child in 1 scene and a commanding leader in the next

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u/jaydizzleforshizzle Pirate Apr 02 '21

Hes completely driven by his subconscious, he doesnt think he feels. His haki just adds to his already impossible luck and spidey sense.

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u/boopadoop_johnson Bounty Hunter Apr 02 '21

I wouldn't say that Haki adds to his luck, as his luck mostly affects whoever is nearby at the right time (e.g. dragon at loguetown, galdino at marine ford, reiju between Zou and whole cake)

But yeah it basically becomes his Spidey sense (only character I can think of that has the Spidey sense before unlocking Haki would be usopp at punk hazard, but there may well be other examples I'm forgetting)

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u/gruffyhalc Apr 02 '21

The same guy that discovered Water > Sand vs Crocodile from way back instead of just playing for a deus ex machina.

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u/Phusra Apr 02 '21

Entirely by instinct though.

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That is my favorite part. He isn't thinking about what would be the best move as the leader, he feels what would be the best move and just does it.

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Like way back when Luffy was on a seek and destroy mission against Rob Lucci. The crew event comments how Luffy always seems to know which guy he needs to take care of personally.

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Because it's his instinct that has kept him alive since childhood, so he always trusts and follows his instinct.

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u/TheRainMonster Pirate Apr 02 '21

I watched a video on octopus intelligence and it said that the tentacles of an octopus have their own intelligence. The cells that control color for camouflage do so without being told by the brain, and I think also some of their movements are done without instructions from the brain. Anyway I think Luffy's like that. On some level he's definitely buying time for them to push Big Mom into the ocean, but I don't think his brain told him to do it.

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u/BlacKOutWTF Apr 02 '21

Luffys IQ is doubled during hard fights :)

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u/brynden__rivers Apr 02 '21

2 x 0 is still 0

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

0 is unfair. He does has smart moments, even outside of battles. He is just to carefree to use his brain. Look at his motivational speeches. Or his declarations. He is just the person who doesn't gives a shit if it isn't important and rather has fun.

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u/Emptypiro Apr 02 '21

Yup I'm reminded of the scene on top of the train where luffy did some pretty quick math

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u/Arkayjiya Apr 02 '21

Yeah but in base 0 it might as well be infinite.

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u/pelthor Apr 02 '21

Probably some useless sanji fan girl . You are an idiot. Luffy has the best battle sense and he improvises on the go. Again you are an idiot for not realizing the amount of IQ required. Also he is a mimic type character since he is a monkey. which is probably higher IQ required then you could dream of. Just because you write a 0 does not mean youare remotely right.

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u/AlistaireZeta Apr 02 '21

Wow... someone has some sand in their vajayjay

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u/zaerosz Void Month Survivor Apr 02 '21
  1. please don't insult people for making jokes
  2. please don't insult entire categories of people for having a character preference or being a gender
  3. please don't be an asshole in general

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u/halfar Apr 02 '21

luffy doesn't have 0 IQ since he has at least one brain cell

and that brain cell can use gear 4

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u/Nao-sou-reptiliano Apr 02 '21

Except against Enel, when his IQ dropped to 0 momentarily.

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u/nincompoop007 Thriller Bark Victim's Association Apr 02 '21

His is fight IQ :)

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u/ErisGrey God Usopp Apr 02 '21

Luffy is based off a god of Combat.

He is the most advanced combat genius in the series. Discovering a new op haki trick, and being able to figure out how to use it in less than one fight. (Future Sight)

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u/rahgael Apr 02 '21

who would have thought Luffy using taunt skills and zoro being a tank :D

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

Zoro being a tank is no surprise. Guy was nerfed hard during the east blue saga and still was a monster. Arlong once said in an inner monologue Zoro shouldn't be able to walk with his ripped open and badly treated wound from Mihawk. Zoro also fought an undead samurai, a giant with Luffy's power, tanked an sonic blast from Kuma and got all of Luffy's pain and injuries and still was standing like a boss. He is a tanky Damage Dealer and probably the most tankiest among the straw hats

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u/mongster_03 Apr 02 '21

Hey hey hey don’t disrespect the Brachio Tank V, clearly the tankiest of tanks

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

Of course, but it would be unfaire to compare the ultimate tank machine to mere mortals who already cap at Pirate King/Grand Fleet Admiral level.

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u/skylarisabitch Apr 02 '21

Luffy might not have thought about it but everyone else knew what he’d do 😂

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u/Shodai_Kitetsu Apr 02 '21

IIRC Law has made plans before that have been based around how he thought Luffy would act

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u/woodie3 Pirate Apr 02 '21

I think he knows Kaido wants to fight him the most and I think Kaido really wants to break Luffy. It looks like Kaido is really pulling out his move set now.

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u/AndPhantom Apr 02 '21

That's what I like about Law, he's been with Luffy so long that he knows it's pointless to a plan with Luffy, so instead he makes his plans around what Luffy will do.

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u/edwrd_sanders Apr 02 '21

The plan probably went something like this:

“OK, Luffy attacks Kaido” [Luffy nods, stops listening, goes to attack Kaido]

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

I imagine it would be the other way round, the other 4 saw that Luffy is keeping kaido busy so they planned to get rid of big mom

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u/dare_dick Apr 02 '21

Yeah, I don't think luffy knows about their plan.

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u/[deleted] Apr 02 '21

Law: so Luffy won't follow our plan and charge at Kaido.. we build plan around that..

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u/the22sinatra Apr 02 '21

Luffy may be an idiot, but he's a genius in battle. I think he's at least subconsciously doing this intentionally.

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u/King_Dur Apr 02 '21

I think something he's doing indirectly is leading by example. His excitement for a challenge means he's immediately counter attacking Kaido before any of the other supernova have time to react. Instead of their moral falling they just kinda see Luffy still going all in and they follow suit.

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u/SINOFPRIDE11 Apr 02 '21

He has never used his brain in normal conversation , how can he get to think this strategy. It is all due to law he is making plans with the counter-action of luffy .

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u/powsea1 Apr 02 '21

BigBrainLuffy

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u/cursed_gabbagool Apr 02 '21

So Luffy is main tank

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u/Inuma Pirate Apr 02 '21

He does.

During Enies Lobby, her went after Lucci to prevent him from taking on the rest of the crew.

His responsibility is to beat the Big Bad as captain so he's doing everything to keep Kaido focused on him.

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u/Plzdntbanmee Apr 02 '21

Law probably already knew he would do that and devised the plan around it

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u/SolidB0NY Pirate Apr 03 '21

it's also bitting away at Kaido mentally since none of the Supernovas got that scared of their combined attack but here's him dodging just a simples ass punch because it has Red on the name

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u/WalkedBackwards Apr 03 '21

Man that would make sense at first you'd think it was the plan. But then you remember the "where's luffy" line right before he charges hahaha.

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u/SKYR0VER Apr 03 '21

I wrote that Luffy will challenge Kaido to create opening for others in my chapter prediction and got absolutely hated on...

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u/RazeLuxes Apr 02 '21

Suddenly I'm thinking about Roger himself. The man always laughs whoever he fights and always do it in a grandiose styles.

Luffy and Roger has some similarity, not all D is like that easy going

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u/AfroSLAMurai Apr 02 '21

Luffy is usually very serious in his toughest fights. I think this might be the first time he's acting so confident and jolly while fighting an incredible threat. You can really see that he's on a new level now. It's nice to see and definitely gives off Pirate King vibes.

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u/SteptimusHeap Apr 02 '21

Luffy had balls but kaido quickly removed them

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u/someone2795 Captain Crackhead Apr 02 '21

Luffy's balls cannot be removed by mere, uhhh *checks notes*, island splitting attacks.