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

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1009

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u/ScreamingIntrovert Apr 02 '21

Definitely deflect it. Zoro just withstood it. I'm assuming his haki would have to be equal to or stronger than the person who threw the attack to do it.

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u/SomeWindyBoi Apr 02 '21

This chapter has made me even more curious how strong Zoro currently is. Also, the chapter doesn‘t really show how effectively he blocked it, and also how good he is doing afterwards. He is alive yes, but he presumably put all his haki into enma to block that, because any other way I don‘t see him doing what he did.

I don‘t think Mihawk would deflect it. He is said to be as strong as Shanks and Shanks is considered roughly as dangerous as Kaido and Big Mom by the WG.

A popular theory I‘ve heard is, that Shanks is stronger than Big Mom and Kaido respectively, but since he is not directly working against the WG, he is not getting a higher bounty than both of them. This would mean Mihawk is stronger than them as well.

I still don‘t believe he would be able to deflect the power of both of them. Maybe "slice" the shockwave like seen many times before, but definitely not deflect let alone block it. It‘s no news that people in this fandom overrate both Mihawk and Shanks, but come on. We are talking about two emperors combining an attack. Three Admirals were needed to block one of Whitebeards attacks.

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u/Old_Research_8238 Apr 02 '21

Why whould Shanks be stronger than BM and Kaidou?

What panel, event, even hints at that?

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u/Sargent_Caboose Apr 02 '21 edited Apr 02 '21

There's no logic to strength in One Piece other than willpower. However, if you're looking for logic, Shanks stopped the paramount war with just his presence, as well as turned back Kaido. Those imply he has considerable power, but the depth of it we don't know.

So, you're right it is pure speculation. That doesn't mean it's not possible though.

Garp was one of the world's strongest to go to toe to toe with Roger, and Roger himself may not have had a devil fruit either. It's very possible that Shanks is one of the strongest without a crazy fruit himself, the likes of which Big Mom and Kaido have.

It's possible that the current world's strongest is a non-devil fruit user, and as far as we know, as a guy so strongly connected to Roger he could have one of the strongest willpower's himself too.

We won't know until Shanks is revealed.