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Alzi

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john! i think he could only do it once and he was preparing all this time to do it.

But wow just wow... People might overate Blackbeard now he still has crappy defense though. :p
 

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john! i think he could only do it once and he was preparing all this time to do it.

But wow just wow... People might overate Blackbeard now he still has crappy defense though. :p

Defense really doesn't have much to do with it when the man is basically invincible and few will be able to touch him. Plus, even if you get a hit, BB is a beast. He took hits from Whitebeard. I really don't see him having much trouble with other pirates.
 

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Hmmm. Here are my thoughts:

Marco said the reason Teach could host two powers was because "the make up of his body is atypical". At first I wanted to attribute this to him being a D, but that appears to not be the case; Ace was a D and if this physical trait were known then assuredly he'd get a second fruit to enhance his own. Persoanlly, I think it's an attribute to two things; Teach's darkness fruit and his insane stamina.

Whitebeard was right in saying Teach lacks any defense at all. If memory serves me right, in every fight he's had so far (Ace, Magellan, Luffy, Whitebeard), he has never actually dodged an attack. It's weird to think about it, but I believe it's true. He's a D and as such he is of greater lineage (in my opinion) and capable of ridiculous amounts of damage and pain.

His dark powers allow him to suck the powers out of another person, leaving them a normal human. If a devil fruit "bonds" to a person in a certain way, what if when they die the bond breaks? In this way he can actually pull the power out. And, because he is a house of pain, Blackbeard could actually pull the Gura-Gura fruit into himself and not die from the horrible pain and force going on inside. I don't anticipate Luffy ever doing this or being capable of doing it; it's a unique property of Blackbeard and Blackbeard alone. As for how he knew he could do this once he had the Yami-Yami, I do not know.

However, it is interesting on several other levels too. With what one of the marines said, the world still has to fear the power of the Gura-Gura fruit. Sengoku mentioned it before that WB could destroy the world if he wanted. This leads me to believe the whole reason the execution of Ace was set up was to kill WB and his potential threat. I all ready thought it was all set up to fall on him, but this cements it (Ace being Roger's son was of secondary importance, though still very important). Now that BB has the fruit and has proven himself to be even more brash than it's former owner, the WG has shot itself in the foot; the power to destroy the world still exists and it's in even worse hands. At the end of the chapter BB declares war on the WG. He's not content with just finding One Piece, but of stomping on anyone he pleases.

But, I don't think he is broken. I don't see any more powers being added to his repertoire because he couldn't handle them. His goal was solely to get WB's fruit and the darkness fruit. Now he's ready to become the Pirate King. But he's not invincible. He may be the strongest in attacks, but he is overconfident and takes way too many hits. Gold Roger most likely tied WB while WB had the Gura-Gura fruit and, as we just saw, powerless WB still beat the **** out of BB.

Luffy is going to become the next Pirate King. He will be the new Roger. The WG will try to kill BB with all their might.

Story is getting even better :bee:
 

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I would say Luffy's Haōshoku Haki is what is going to aid greatly when he fights Blackbeard. I want to see Rayleigh enter the fray soooo bad. xD

It's great to have characters from Rogers' era do battle.
 

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♣ The arc's almost over. ); ♥

♣ I wonder what's the next chapter is going to be like? ;p ♥
 

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Black Beard's so strong...

And I wonder how long it will be until Luffy will regain his old self and be able to fight again.
 

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People are thinking blackbeard is hax now but he really isn't. Yes he's strong but it's not like he's so dam powerful that you can't do nothing about it.

I have a feeling blackbeard is going to die by somehow getting punched into water and drowning lol.
 

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But, I don't think he is broken. I don't see any more powers being added to his repertoire because he couldn't handle them. His goal was solely to get WB's fruit and the darkness fruit. Now he's ready to become the Pirate King. But he's not invincible. He may be the strongest in attacks, but he is overconfident and takes way too many hits. Gold Roger most likely tied WB while WB had the Gura-Gura fruit and, as we just saw, powerless WB still beat the **** out of BB.

Luffy is going to become the next Pirate King. He will be the new Roger. The WG will try to kill BB with all their might.

Story is getting even better :bee:

I agree that there have been better pirates the BB. It took BB his whole crew just to kill WB. Had WB been healthy, there is no way that BB or his crew would be able to do much to the man. Of course, Roger was stronger then him so...

However, now that I think about it, doesn't a new devil fruit (the same fruit) get made whenever the old master dies? So that means that if Roger had a fruit his is out there or already ate but we don't know it (that would be funny if he had the Gomu-Gomu :laugh:).


People are thinking blackbeard is hax now but he really isn't. Yes he's strong but it's not like he's so dam powerful that you can't do nothing about it.

I have a feeling blackbeard is going to die by somehow getting punched into water and drowning lol.
Of course not. He's just the strongest pirate that I can think of. Not sure if Senguko or the admirals would be even able to take him down (Mabye Kizaru). However, there is still the whole New World so I'm expecting to see a lot of other strong pirates that are on equal level of BB or even stronger.

He's not hax, hes just reeally strong (at least he will be when he makes full use of the Gura-Gura)
 

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I thought BB was able to steal the powers of anyone when I first saw him use the Gura Gura, and I was like " Wow BB will dominate the world by absorbing as much as possible" As soon as it suggested that he could only hold the two powers I was kinda relieved/ saddened. But what if BB's power can have other things absorb powers as well? Like how Vegapunk can have objects "eat" fruits . They never said that Logia/ paramecia powers couldn't be absorbed by inanimate objects as well. And if this were possible, using Virg's theory, the inanimate object should be able to carry multiple fruit powers within itself, as it does not feel pain and is nonliving. Any thoughts?
 

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I thought BB was able to steal the powers of anyone when I first saw him use the Gura Gura, and I was like " Wow BB will dominate the world by absorbing as much as possible" As soon as it suggested that he could only hold the two powers I was kinda relieved/ saddened. But what if BB's power can have other things absorb powers as well? Like how Vegapunk can have objects "eat" fruits . They never said that Logia/ paramecia powers couldn't be absorbed by inanimate objects as well. And if this were possible, using Virg's theory, the inanimate object should be able to carry multiple fruit powers within itself, as it does not feel pain and is nonliving. Any thoughts?
Wait... What if Blackbeard is a robot of some sort like (I forgot his name) the guy who split up the straw hats? His "personality" could be faked, and someone else could be controlling him. It could even be Golden Leo from the Strong World chapter, unless his "plan" has already happened in the manga and I forgot about it.
 

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I really can't see how Luffy can compete with somebody like Blackbeard atm. He got his *** handed to him by [/spoiler]Smoker. Freaking Smoker.[/spoiler] along with [/spoiler] the poison dude and every high ranking marine[/spoiler]. Luffy hasn't really improved in 'passive' power since the start of the series, he has basically staid the same, but just learned some new moves imo.
 

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^lol spoiler fail.
but thats not what i came here to say.

I am not a fan of what just happened. i don't like that blackbeard has gotten another power. it seems to me oda wanted to make him the main villain but and then thought he is not powerful enough, so instead of just letting him get stronger through his travels he just gave him another power i feel like it was a cheap and easy way out. Also at his current power lvl i don't see how he will be able to get away from the WG he is in the same position as white beard and his crew/allies were but he is much weaker even with his extra power (he most likely will some how get away from the WG). this to me was the one fault in a other wise amazing arc.

Niiro the point atm is that luffy is not the strongest so he does not have to be able to be able to beat balckbeard right now. also don't forget blackbeard also lost to the poison guy, and luffy won't be able to beat smoker and others like him till he learns to control haki. Also luffy has gotten stronger but its hard to tell b/c his enemies have also gotten stronger, also idk if u consider gear 2 him beacoming stronger or just a new move but that does clearly make him much stronger, another way to look at it is that he and zoro were about equal when they got to the grand line now they are worlds apart.

Also i am hoping for a time jump for only one reason, it has not been a year yet in the one piece world and i won't buy them becoming strong enough to beat the most powerful people within a year time needs to move.

lastly: after the flashback to roger telling whitebeard what the d meant all i saw were people giving theory's about what it meant when i felt the most impotent part of what was shown there is that the meaning of the D is tangible, some were in the world there is a place were u can find out what it means (maybe of the blocks of history)
 

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Everything Oda has done in this manga has been perfect and correct there is no way anyone in this world could of thought up a better idea of what has already happened no way.

Blackbeard is ****** so is my new avatar. But people are still thinking he is hax all the opponent has to do is come in close and hit blackbeard. Whitebeard could of killed him as i stated before and it looked really easy for whitebeard aswell but it's the fact that the whole whitebeard crew landed massive amounts of hits on whitebeard which caused him to die. :p So no Blackbeard may seem hax but it's only Oda hyping him up. ;)
 

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Darkness fruit is now officially broken. I think the darkness fruit allows him to absorb powers from dead DF users. Why else would he get so hyped up about it? It's not like his darkness power is particularly overpowered compared to other logia powers :V
 

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maybe blackbeard has some affiliation with vegapunk. i'm guessing the devil fruit absorption is not as simple as we think

just a guess :D
 

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Man... I wish I could buy all the One Piece volumes right now. Seeing them all in the bookstore, it's just too tempting. I'd buy them if they had a volume set like they did for Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note. And it doesn't help that the newer One Piece volumes are two dollars higher than the earlier volumes they released.

And I wonder what's going to be next for Luffy. He still needs his crew.
 

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Man... I wish I could buy all the One Piece volumes right now. Seeing them all in the bookstore, it's just too tempting. I'd buy them if they had a volume set like they did for Naruto, Bleach, and Death Note. And it doesn't help that the newer One Piece volumes are two dollars higher than the earlier volumes they released.

And I wonder what's going to be next for Luffy. He still needs his crew.
Maybe to just be carried back to Ray by Iva or Jimbie.
 

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When blackbeard was about to absorb the fruit some of his crew mates were saying lets hope this works or lets hope he gets it right can't remeber. Which means it most definatly is somthing hard to do. I don't think he can gain anymore powers though that will just kill him. Blackbeard is going to stick with the two fruit he has currently theres no way Oda is going to over do it where he is able to keep stealing dead peoples devil fruits.

The crew i sense will come back soon some have already met up judging by cover arcs so hopefully we will see them soon. :) They most likley will meet up back with rayleigh then he will teach the whole crew and train them up or somthing along those lines just before giving them a warning about the new world and how they have to watch out then we will see them depart the island.
 

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Isn't shanks mad at BB?

I hope the two battle at some point (maybe luffy + shanks vs BB and his crew). It would really flesh out his personality even more. From what we've seen, he seems like an awesome guy and we need more of him :mad:
 

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I don't think we will see Shanks for awhile. There has to be a shanks arc atleast. :p

Well Blackbeard has taken out Whitebeard guessing his next victim is another Yonkou so possibly Shanks?

Shanks warned whitebeard about Blackbeard that he is dangerous and he gets you with suprise with his attacks. One thing we learned during this arc is never let your guard down not once since marco got cuffed and Jozu got frozen.

 

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I don't think BB is aiming to take down the other Yonkou; he just wanted to be the strongest like WB was. When WB was alive, he was considered the greatest in the world, despite sharing a title with Shanks/Kaidou/the other guy. I think BB is going to aim for Raftel now; that's what Roger did to become the Pirate King and that's what BB wants.
 

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Since theres like 2 other people using BB avatar ill put my bb avatar on hold for a bit.

Just remember I was the original BB avatar user
 

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I only changed it too hype Blackbeard up for awhile. Going to change it once the next chapter comes out lol.
 

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Usually, when someone else wants to become Pirate King, Luffy's attitude toward them is, "No, that's gonna be me."

Luffy doesn't even know what BB's goal is, and Luffy has many many reasons to hate BB. I love how their rivalry has been built up.
 

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Chapter 578
Sengoku unleashes his ability, and it's Sengoku vs Blackbeard Pirates.
It seems Sengoku has the advantage in vs BB pirates.
Akainu relentlessly chases after Luffy. Ivankov and Inazuma tries to protect Luffy, but are taken down. Jinbei tries to carry Luffy and run for the ocean, but Aokiji freezes the waters. Akainu comes and punches through his body.

Then Croc shows up, and blows away Jinbei and Luffy into the air.
Croc: I'm not gonna let the Marines have their way any longer
Buggy catches the two in the air.

Then a ship shows up from the ocean. Trafalgar Law shows up, and tells them to hand over Luffy. End



Nja spoiler

The spoiler is already here, but it seems a little different than how I remembered.

Sengoku and Blackbeard pirates clash, and Sengoku shoots a shockwave from his hands
In just one hit from Sengoku, Blackbeard pirates start coughing up blood, and it seems Sengoku already has the upper hands.

From what I remember, when the scene changes to Akainu Ivankov and Inazuma were already on the ground... maybe I skipped a page?
Jinbei got in the way to save Luffy, but the two (Iva and Inazuma) blocked Akainu's punch, which penetrated through them.
Akainu complains that if they didn't get in the way, his punch would have reached Jinbei's heart.
Croc shows up, and blows Luffy & Jinbei away with his sandstorm, sending them to Buggy.
It seems it'll be Akainu vs Croc & Whitebeard pirates

Buggy carries Luffy & Jinbei and runs, and a ship that looks like a submarine comes out of the portion of the ocean not yet frozen, and Law appears.

Law says that Luffy will eventually be his enemy, but for now, fate brought them together, and he'll help him.
Law says to hand over the Strawhat, I'm a doctor!

Then ends.



The theory of
Croc leading the WB pirates
might not be far off.
 

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Trying not to read the new spoilers. i read like the part with
Law. & the part with buggy

sounds interesting though from the little i did read
 

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This chapter is pretty epicing judging by spoilers seems more of a build up to the next though.

This whole arc so far every chapter did not disapoint me.
 

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the crew gets together and time skip to train. how does that sound?
 
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