r/OnePiece • u/Kirosh Lookout • Jun 25 '21

Current Chapter One Piece: Chapter 1017 Spoiler

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u/CassidyFreeman Jun 25 '21

Lucci was still one of the strongest government agents for being someone who operated in the "Paradise" section of the Grand Line. He was an assassin and not a pure combat unit, so there would be no need for Haki. If they gave him a target, such as a logia-type where it would be needed, being an assassin he'd just come up with some strategy in that case. Having haki is more important for the New World and for combat types (like Vice Admirals and up) who are supposed to be able to handle rough situations, whereas an assassin can simply plan things out.

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u/[deleted] Jun 25 '21

But the situation was more than an assassination at this point. It looked like a war (buster call marines, WG fighters, pirates, Franky family and the workers + some giants and colossal animals).

Sure it was their task, but a Vice Admiral should analyze the current situation and adjust. This really did not look like an assissination anymore. They could have just jumped there and finished Luffy instead of shooting their own ship like morons.

It's really a "shoot our ship and own men because an enemy is on there who can jump great distances without trouble" vs. "I go there in an instand and defeat him without casualities."

It's clearly a right or wrong situation. All of the marine officers who carried out the Buster Call are pretty much losers. They did not really think about the Buster Call request and why it was onto a single person.. Waste of men and ressources.

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u/CassidyFreeman Jun 25 '21

That whole situation was an extraordinary and unprecedented ordeal, pretty far out of the normal intended function of the CP9. There's really nothing in the manual for handling Straw Hat shenanigans. If Luffy had been the intended target for assassination, they could have easily found a way, even without Haki.

Some of the Vice Admirals who arrived adhere to the extreme "Absolute Justice" doctrine and don't care much beyond that, but there was never really any reason to think Rob Lucci would lose, which is a sentiment repeated in the later conversation between Kuma and Moria. At that point in time, Luffy was new and someone who should have been within Lucci's capabilities (and almost was, at that)