Rocks Pirates vs Garp And Roger

As we know, Rocks Pirates were a legendary pirate crew that were the most powerful during their era, thiry eight years before the current storyline. They were led by Rocks D. Xebec. Kaido, Big Mom and Whitebeard were members of this crew, along with many other pirates who made a name for themselves such as Shiki “The Golden Lion”, “Captain John”, “Silver Axe” and “Ochoku”. The crew strength at the time made them the most threatening pirates to the World Government.

 
Inside Marine HQ, Sengoku even says that Rocks D. Xebec’s ambition was involved with many of the world’s taboo subjects. This likely involves the Will of D., but what other subjects did he know about? The Void Century? The Road Poneglyphs? How much did his influence lead him to know about the world’s dark secrets? 38 years ago, the Rocks Pirates attacked several World Nobles and their slaves on a island known as God Valley.


On that day, Monkey D. Garp defeated the crew, earning him the title of “Hero of the Marines”. The Marines listening to Sengoku talk about how they never knew which of Garp’s heroic feats gave him that title. Sengoku adds that Garp tends to keep mum about the whole ordeal aside from the known historical facts. The first reason Garp likes to keep quiet about the battle is one that never made it into the public record. Garp had to fight alongside a pirate. The other reason is that Garp fought to protect the Celestial Dragons.

The introduction of Celestial Dragons into the story and Garp’s secrecy about protecting them surprise and confuse the present Marines. Sengoku explains that Garp’s moral code does not allow him to protect Celestial Dragons. It’s also the reason he never accepted the rank of Admiral, because he would be directly under their control. This is particulary interesting, since every single D. in the series has gone against the Celestial Dragons, being the natural enemies of the Gods: Garp refuses to serve them, Dragon wants to overthrow them, Luffy despises them and punched one of them, Roger was the Pirate King and great threat for the Celestial Dragons. The same threat is now represented by Blackbeard. Rocks led his crew on a mission that endangered the World Nobles and their slaves. Rouge bore the child of the Pirate King, Saul opposed the decision of Celestial Dragons to destroy Ohara and Law went directly against Doflamingo. The true story of the event known as the “God Valley Incident” is that Garp and Gol D. Roger met there by chance, teamed up, and defeated the Rocks Pirates. This revelation surprises the Marines most of all. Sengoku goes on to say that God Valley is no longer found on any maps. In reality, the entire island disappeared without explanation as if it never existed. Sengoku rephrased his description, saying that an island the World Government wanted to keep secret disappeared. How much relation this island has to Raftel? Raftel being an island of devils and God Valley being an island of gods seems to create an interesting parallel.

The Numbers of the Beast Pirates

The Numbers are a group of massive people who are associated with Kaido and the Beasts Pirates.The Numbers are comparable in size to giants, utterly dwarfing humans and longarms like Scratchmen Apoo. They all possess two horns on their head, much like Kaido, and two of them carry a spiked club similar to Kaido’s kanabō, thus giving them traits similar to those of the legendary oni. Two of them have been shown with very sharp teeth.

Their physical constitutions vary greatly, with some being taller and slimmer while others are shorter and rounder. One member has a notably long neck. According to Queen, every member of the Numbers has a drinking problem. A child from Hakumai told another child that they would be eaten by the Numbers if spotted, but it is unknown whether that is the truth or a myth. Likewise, he also said that they were from Onigashima, but it is unclear whether he meant that they were native beings of Onigashima or that they were members of the Beasts Pirates who are situated in Onigashima, hence stating that they were from there.

So the Numbers seems to be a species we haven’t seen before or atleast not of a species we know of. Or do we? I have 2 theories:

1: The Numbers are the same species as Oars

The Numbers are clearly tall. They have a demon-like appearance. We know that Moria most likely have been in Wano and there maybe he found Oars’ body.

2: Kaido is the same species as The Numbers

This one is a little weird. But what if Kaido came to Wano because his race (The Numbers) were hunted by World Government and then he found Wano, a country that got almost no contact with the rest of the world. He then came with The Numbers as their leader, and they fought with Kaido to dethrone Oden. Queen also said that The Numbers all have a drinking problems and so do Kaido (and it would explain the horns).

The Unstoppable Alliance between Bigmom And Kaido forms in Wano!

It is revealed by Hiyori that Kozuki Oden used to wield two powerful Meito blades in a style of swordsmanship that was a Daito Nitoryu (literally meaning “Long-Sword Two-Sword Style”): Ame no Habakiri and its sister blade Enma, the latter said to be the only sword that has ever harmed Kaido. Oden gave each blade to each of his children, Momonosuke and Hiyori respectively. The Ame no Habakiri (literally meaning “Snake-Slayer of Heaven/Takamagahara”) is the most famous Totsuka no Tsurugi, appearing in Japanese mythology as a blade used by the Shinto god Susanoo to slay the legendary monster serpent Yamata no Orochi. “Haba” is an archaic term for “snake.” Anyway Zoro accepts Hiyori’s offer to give him Enma in place of Shusui, despite Kawamatsu’s reservations.

In the meantime Law is freed from his imprisonment by a mysterious figure, and he cuts up Hawkins, who reveals that his alliance with Kid and Apoo was blown up due to Apoo secretly working for Kaido since the start. Then we see a shadowy figure who is letting Law escape. He’s probably the same person that allowed Law to break free from his cuffs. But who is he? It has to be X Drake! He was the only other person with Law and Hawkins. Furthermore, Oda recently stated that X Drake has a particular interest in Luffy x Law Alliance. On Onigashima, Kaido and Big Mom have stopped their battle and reveal to King and Queen that they have formed an Alliance to take over the World! As we know, the possibility of two or more of the Yonko forming an alliance was enough of a threat to cause the World Government to panic, as seen when it unsuccessfully attempted to prevent a meeting between Shanks and Whitebeard. The World Government feared that the two Yonko would unify, creating a much more imposing threat that would disrupt the balance between the Great Powers. Will this trigger the arrival of the Marines in Wano? If we remember Kizaru’s reaction to Big Mom and Kaido’s conversation on the den den mushi, we can assume that at least one Admiral will show up at the end of this gigantic conflict. By now, there are only five days remaining before the raid on Onigashima.

The Rox Pirates will reunite this arc. But how?

When the Rox Pirates were first introduced, garp stated that if they were to reunite, it would be beyond our imaginations to do anything about it. And now big mom and kaido have met up.With the way this is going I think that the rox will most likely reunite and that garp's statement at reverie was foreshadowing/hype for what is to come. But if they do reunite, what must happen? Well kaido needs to realize that the supernovas are not just rookies, they are not weak pirates, and they are a threat capable of directly challenging his power.

I think that sometime before the final battle, there will be a major clash in wano kuni in which some of kaido's strongest forces will be defeated by the supernovas. In particular, I think that jack, queen, hawkins, drake, and kyoshiro have a high likelihood of falling and possibly even joining the alliance this won't happen for jack or queen but could happen for the other three. I also think that luffy will be able to fight on par with kaido's base form and possibly even push him to using his hybrid.

In any case, these fights are extremely necessary. We have major characters like: law, kid, zoro, sanji, and maybe killer who have yet to have their time to shine, despite how far we are in the new world. You can't just have kid and law being able to fend off kaido and help luffy beat him if it isn't established that they are strong in the first place. So what happens then? Kaido realizes that the threat of the supernovas is very real and he realizes that luffy has immense potential and if not now, will eventually become a threat to him. He will then call for big mom, bakkin, and possibly other members of the rox to rejoin in order to defeat the members of the worst generation. In turn, I see the worst get getting help from other major factions including: shanks, blackbeard, the marines, or the revolutionaries

This will all culminate in a war that will by far eclipse marineford in terms of importance. Big mom and kaido will be overthrown, luffy and kid will replace them, and blackbeard will take up his former captain's mantle as the new strongest man in the world.

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Reasons Why Wano Lost The War

Previously we were judging Oden's strength based on current nine red scabbard's Ashura Doji, Inuarashi and Nekomamushi who showed strength equivalent/similar to Jack thus placing Oden's strength around Yonko first/second mate or so and while having that kind of strength in Scabbards who were nine people and on top of that Oden and Hyogoro, they should not have lost the war, specially since only four scabbards could deal with Kaido's Top three who were a rather newly formed pirates however previous chapter revealed Ashura Doji, Nekomamushi and Inuarashi were much weaker twenty years ago and the fact that Kinemon was the leader of their group we thought maybe because he was good strategist but it is most likely that Kinemon was actually the strongest of them all nine Scabbards as well and if that were the case then Oden was also weaker than we thought, maybe around current Ashura Doji and so Wano the country of Samurai really did have weaker forces than we originally thought and the whole country losing to Kaido could be justified.

Here are the main reasons:

1- The Beasts Pirates had Kaido. Oden was strong, no doubt, but he's pretty much confirmed to be somewhere in between Roger/Whitebeard and Ashura Doji. If he was as strong as Katakuri, for example, it would already be more than enough to make him the strongest person in Wano, as Ashura Doji was considered the strongest criminal of Wano before being defeated by Oden. This is clearly not even close to enough to take down the WSC.

2- Kaido still had his own "Katakuri" (King) and other two powerful commanders (Queen and Jack), and a few strong "mid tiers" too (The Flying Six, or at least some of them, as X Drake obviously wasn't there, and possibly other strong headliners and allies). Even if they weren't as strong as they are now, they were surely pretty strong already.
3- Oden was backstabbed by Orochi. Not only he had to deal with one of the strongest pirate crews of all time, but also with internal enemies. Many samurai and ninjas, loyal to Orochi, certainly turned against him too.
4- The Red Scabbards didn't even fight, apparently. Orochi somehow captured Oden without notice and his retainers escaped (or were captured) after he was executed. 

Kid will create a mech to fight Kaido

So we know from the fact that kid has a robot arm and from pictures oda drew of kid as a child that kid knows something about robotics. What if kid's big power up this arc is a mech that can keep up with kaido's dragon form.

We know that oda by kaiju in the powers of the beast pirates.
Kaido, being a dragon who is king of the monsters, is obviously inspired by godzilla.
King, being a flaming pteranodon, is inspired by rodan
Orochi is inspired by ghidora, as both are based off the yamata no orochi

Now luffy's boundman with its signature move "Kong gun" and "King kong gun" obviously parallel to king kong, one of godzilla's rivals. Given that kid will be one of the main allies who will help luffy beat kaido, is it possible that he could also have a form based off one of godzilla's rivals.

I think so. Using the vast metal resources at the mines as well as the sea stone craftsmanship of wano kuni, I think that kid could create a mech that is inspired by mechagodzilla. By combining this mech with his own magnetic powers and haki, I think kid will prove to be a valuable member of the alliance and eventually become one of the top tiers of the new generation.

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Monkey D. Luffy Shows Qualities of a True Pirate King!

Luffy, Chopper, Hyogoro, Raizo, Kikunojo, and Kawamatsu overwhelm the Beasts Pirates, but Daifugo shoots the prisoners with special bullets, which inflict a debilitating virus known as Mummy onto them that is spread through touch.

Daifugo reveals that this virus is one of Queen’s greatest creations. The virus basically eats the person from inside destroying their cells at a rapid speed. The prisoners with broken spirits move to subdue Luffy’s group, but Luffy unexpectedly grabs them and becomes infected.
Luffy then pushes everyone down and tells them to wake up and realize that they are all just slaves. He tells them that their conditions will only worsen the longer Kaido stays in power, and if they want to get out of this, they should not stand in his way. So Luffy manages to persuade the prisoners to rebel against the Beasts Pirates with one of the best speeches he’s ever had in the whole series.

He tells to the prisoners of Udon that giving up on hope and accepting to live in a miserable condition is not a way to live, living life out as a slave isn’t living at all. This just shows how much Luffy has grown as a Leader. His capability to move the hearts of others shows again why he’s the man destined to become the Future Pirate King. In the meantime, Babanuki prepares to fire an Excite Shell into the crowd, but with his incredible future sight, Luffy anticipates it easily. He ties up his elephant’s trunk, causing the shell to explode inside Babanuki. The prisoners then decide to join Luffy and rebel, and they defeat Daifugo as Luffy’s alliance conquers Udon. There are eight days before the final battle against Kaido.

Big Mom and Kaido allied to subdue Elbaf?

I just had a shower thought… oars’ giants race is officially named “ancient giant”. I assume kaido to have this ancient giant race’s blood and hence he might be some kind of last survivor of the species. Maybe kaido is half ancient giant half normal giant, which explains his appearance.

Now we know that big mom wanted elbaf’s powers by making an alliance with them, also she basically wants to subdue them. We don’t know kaido’s plans yet, but what if he also plans to take over elbaf as some kind of “righteous heir”?

In this theory I think both big mom and kaido will survive wano, wano will just tease both characters and both characters will end up in an alliance. It could be that they flee from wano and move forward to elbaf. This is the moment blackbeard invades whole cake island and moves forward. With that kaido and big mom will take over elbaf and subdue the giant species. I think elbaf will be the arc where we will see shanks and blackbeard might also jump in. The grand finale of the yonko saga.

Each Emperors Represents a Specific Test for Monkey D. Luffy

What if the Yonkou's represent the tests of heart, body, mind and soul on Luffy’s quest to find One Piece? In this scenario then,

Charlotte Linlin would represent the test of soul since she has acquired the powers of the Soru Soru no Mi after the death of its previous owner, Carmel, a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows her to freely interact with and manipulate souls.

Kaido would represent the test of body since he’s renowned as the “Strongest Creature in the World”.

Blackbeard would represent the test of heart in fact a lot of people speculated that he ate Whitebeard’s heart (I have a feeling Oda might have drawn on some tribal customs, where eating the heart of a defeated foe grants you their strength). Finally Shanks would represent the test of mind.

Shanks would also be the hardest test – not only because of prior associations, but also because say what you like, actual planning and strategising just isn’t Luffy’s thing…

Monkey D. Luffy Reunites With Kid in Kaido’s Prison!

Trafalgar D. Water Law attempts to rescue the defeated Luffy, but is attacked by Hawkins and shot with a nail made out of Seastone, and he is unable to prevent Luffy’s capture. It seems like something went on between Law and Hawkins, not just fight, probably a deal? How did Law escape? Kaido notes that Luffy is still glaring at him, and tells his subordinates to throw him into a cell, saying that he will make a good subordinate once his will is broken.

However, as his subordinates move toward Luffy, they are suddenly knocked out by his Haoshoku Haki, and Shutenmaru recognizes it as an ability that Oden used. Kaido notes that Eustass Kid also used this Haki. Luffy is brought into a cell, and the guards say that starting tomorrow they will work him until his will breaks and he pledges allegiance to Kaido. In the cell next to Luffy’s is Kid, and both of them swear revenge against Kaido, which causes them to notice each other as the curtains are drawn on the first act of the Wano Country Arc.

I really like that Oda ended the Act 1 by bringing Kid back to the story, it’s been a while and his spirit is still strong. That moment with Luffy and Kid saying the same thing is really cool. The news about Luffy and Kaido’s fight circulates through Wano, and Franky, Robin, Usopp, and Zoro are completely aghast when they hear it. Meanwhile, Inuarashi and the Musketeers discover the injured Tama, and head into the forest to treat her immediately.At the ruins of Oden Castle, the Straw Hats and their allies have all survived, and Kiku prepares to tell them the current situation of Wano. This chapter confirms the uninevitable Luffy, Kid, and Law is likely going to happen again and I am sure these individuals will also play a pivotal role in taking down Kaido. Kid having Conqueror’s Haki probably means Law either has it and hasn’t shown it or will have it soon. So Act 1 of Wano arc is over. We’re heading back to Reverie or Act 2 is going to start in the next two weeks?!

Possible Kaido's fate by the end of Wano Arc

Kaido will end up dying at the end of wano. Oda implied that what was to come in wano would make the battle of marineford look cute. Marineford had two major deaths in battle so wano has to have at least that. Kaido, the main antagonist of the arc, that actually wants to die seems like the most logical death. As for how he gets beaten, I believe it will basically be similar to oars' defeat. Many people will take on kaido initially. Supernovas, samurai, and all the yonkou level characters in the alliance at some point. After all of them have done their best, kaido will still be standing but will have taken a beating. Then ultimately luffy will be the one to come through when everyone else is down and take kaido on in a 1v1, challenging kaido's legend.

Luffy will awaken his devil fruit. Possibly a new gear too, or at least a stronger and perfected form of gear fourth. He will also be pumped up on all sorts. Hawkins' tarot power boost. Moriah's shadows. Sanji's attack cuisine. Maybe even law's immortality surgery and whatever else characters have to buff someone. Everyone will give their powers to luffy and trust him to be their hero. Luffy will take all of this in and with that power it will be enough to defeat kaido. So even after luffy beats kaido he won't be the strongest creature because of all the power boosts he had on him still allowing for some progression as he gets his actual body to that level and not simply have it be through boosts.

Not sure about how kaido dies. I hope there is some difference from whitebeard's death in how things play out, but for now I've got things down as:

-yonkou level allies all take on kaido and deal decent damage
-luffy gets buffed through allies' various powers and defeats kaido in a 1v1
-kaido gets killed by blackbeard.

Strawhat will leave Wano before being captured by Kaido!

Now that Luffy was one-shotted by Kaido,  I believe he will realize that in his current state he has no chance of beating of Kaido. So Luffy needs a power up and some kind of confidence boost, this is why I believe Luffy will need to leave Wano for that. Now to start with, I don’t think Luffy will be captured by Kaidou. I think Luffy will escape Kaidou either with Law or Shutenmaru’s help. The best way I think this will be possible is Law using Room to switch places with Luffy once he is being taken in by Kaidou’s underlings. This is where Luffy’s sword comes in handy. Since Luffy is wearing a sword, Law can switch places with his sword. Thereby he will be having his weapon with him in prison.  feel that after Luffy wakes up, he will see that Tama is in really bad health and Chopper does not have the skill within him to heal her. Seeing her in that state will make Luffy realise that all this was his fault and he needs to do something to save her. I think here is where Inuarashi will tell Luffy that Tama can be saved if he takes her to MARCO the Phoenix. I believe Marco will be able to heal Tama with his “Flames of Rebirth”. Also, note that the cat which he heals is also named Tama. Could this be a foreshadowing that he will heal her?

Going to Marco will serve quite a few purposes:

1. Tama will get healed. The first one is obvious because that is the main reason for the visit.

2. Luffy will see Ace’s grave. Since Marco is in the same Island Ace and Whitebeard are buried, it stands within reason that Luffy will go to see Ace’s grave. I believe that seeing Ace’s grave will strengthen his resolve to pursue his dream. Just like it did for Sabo.
3. Luffy will fulfill Ace’s promise to Tama. Since Luffy has taken Tama to another Island, he will partly fulfill Ace’s promise to her.

4. Luffy will get a power-up. I believe once there Luffy will find someone who I think will teach him how to awaken his Devil Fruit. It could be someone from Whitebeard Pirates, maybe Marco himself, or a former Roger Pirate like Scopper Gaban.
5. Chopper’s dream. I believe seeing Marco curing Tama, will give Chopper a clue about his dream to make his miracle cure for all diseases.

6. Edward Weevil. One of the most important things about this arc is Luffy’s encounter with the final Shichibukai. I think Weevil will somehow find out about where Marco is by someone following Luffy in his journey to Marco. In any case, I think he will arrive there after Luffy learns the theory in awakening his Devil Fruit.
Weevil will then obliterate everyone around and since Marco is healing Tama, I think he cannot take part in the battle. So it will be up to Luffy to stop him. In this fight, I think Luffy will learn how to use awakening or any other power up.

7. New Allies to war. After this battle, I think Weevil will become a friend of Luffy. And might even help in the battle against Kaidou. Because personally, Weevil does not seem to be bad. It’s only because of his mother that he was killing the former Whitebeard allies.
Also since Luffy beats Weevil and saves the people of the Island, Marco might also join the crew.
Further, Luffy could meet Gekko Moriah here. He could have been the one who might have tipped Weevil about Luffy being here. And in the distraction, he would try to steal Ace and Whitebeard’s bodies. But ultimately with his plans in ruin and seeing how Luffy is prepared to fight Kaidou, he might join the alliance as well.
Anyway, this could be in a way Luffy making a lot of allies. Since Luffy will have 2 weeks time, I think will be the best way Luffy can get stronger and get a few allies to his war against Kaidou. Also since it is Law who gets captured, he could secretly convince Kidd to join his alliance in the prison.

Viceroy Kaido is going to capture Strawhats

In the recent chapters the Kaido of the Beasts appears in his dragon form. He destroys Oden’s castle with devastating fire breath. That got me thinking, he looks too strong and invincible. I think, right now, there’s no way that Luffy and company can even scratch him. In one of the last page of the previous chapter we saw that the beam that Kaido shoots is going to hit the Straw Hat crew, there’s no way they can avoid that.

Luffy immediately responds by punching him in the head with Elephant Gun. The face of Kaido looks like he’s going to say in the next chapter “oh, a big fly, gtfo.” I mean, look at the difference of size, Kaido is huge. In my opinion Kaido will proceed to mess the Straw Hats up pretty bad, putting Luffy’s life at risk. Luffy’s life being at risk will cause his Vivre Card to start to fade, drawing the attention of the Grand Fleet to Wano.

This is where the mass of Luffy’s forces will come from for this war. Though I believe the real fun comes when we flash back to Reverie after Luffy has been captured by Kaido. Sabo will be in the middle of his plan to attack the Celestial Dragons when he notices his brother’s Vivre Card fading. This will cause the plans to go awry. What happens from here I can’t say it’s to unpredictable. But if these sequences of events unfold we should be in for one hell of a ride.

Kaido: A New Type Of Challenge

When Oda mentioned Luffy will defeat Kaido, he made one thing clear: It will not be because "Luffy's punch is so strong". He even mentioned when Kaido first appeared, Luffy was not strong enough yet to defeat him. What exactly is Oda entailing by this? Well, we don't have to look far. The last opponent Luffy defeated at that time (Doflamingo), was defeated exactly because Luffy's punch "was so strong". In fact, every opponent Luffy has defeated so far he has been physically stronger than. Why is this significant? Well we know for a fact Luffy is not overall a better combatant than every opponent he's faced. With Crocodile this was obvious in Marineford, and with Enel Oda outright stated it. He said was lucky he was rubber. But nonetheless he was still stronger than both Crocodile/Enel physically. I recently made a thread outlining why Katakuri was a good milestone for Luffy. They are very similar in fighting style, and Luffy actually could use him as a measuring stick. With guys like Crocodile, Enel, Doflamingo, Moriah, Cracker, it's very hard for Luffy to measure his overall ability, simply because they fight very differently. What makes them good is not what makes Luffy good.

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Just like, even if Zoro defeats Pica, Zoro still wants to develop as a swordsman, rather than just be a strong guy, Luffy even if he defeats all those dudes with dissimilar styles, still wants to develop primarily as a brawler more than anything. How Luffy defeats opponents is he negates/circumvents their DF ability (or DF combined with CoO in Enel's/Katakuri's cases) and/or he overpowers them physically. This seems kinda simple at first, but it's a very important point in the "Is Luffy stronger than the guys he beats?" debate.

Whether he is a better overall combatant that those guys is up for debate, but what isn't, is that he is simply physically stronger. Kaido represents a new type of challenge. While before Luffy simply had to figure out some way around their DF/DF + CoO combo, and overpower them physically, Kaido is not that type of opponent. Even if you figure out some way around his possible DF (Zooan?), you cannot overpower Kaido physically.

Luffy has defeated better overall fighters than him before (and I'd argue the gap between Crocodile/Enel and Luffy is much bigger than Luffy/Kaido now), but he has never defeated someone physically stronger than him.

Eustass Kid and His Future Role in Wano Arc

Eustass Kid was beaten and imprisoned by Kaido after their initial meeting at Kid’s base, his defeat most likely doesn’t mark the end of his importance in the story of One Piece. We know that Scratchmen Apoo has most likely betrayed the Alliance with Kid, in fact he now appears to be allied or, at the very least, a subordinate to Kaido, as he contacted him to reveal that they had lost contact with Jack.

During the conversation, Apoo referred to the Yonko as “Kaido-san”. Basil Hawkins also joined the Beasts Pirates and became one of the crew’s Headliners. The fact that Eutass Kid seemingly refused to work under Kaido, is proof that he possesses a rather strong will. I personally think that it is likely for Kid to play an important role in the war against Kaido where he will help the Straw Hat Alliance to take down the dubbed ‘immortal’ Yonko.

I am 100% sure that he wants to seek revenge for what Kaido did to him, and his best option, by far, is to cooperate with Luffy and Law just like they did on Sabaody. Kid has also been portrayed as Luffy’s counterpart and potential rival when it comes to becoming the Pirate King, but I honestly think that this role is over. Luffy’s only real rival for that title is going to be Blackbeard. I think it is also likely that Kid is going to be on Luffy’s side during the potential final war against the World Government, together with most, if not all, of the other Supernovas.

Next Major Opponents For The Strawhats

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StrawHats Advantage against the Yonkos and the World Government

So with Luffy D. Dragon now being acknowledged as the “5th Emperor among the Yonko”, I realized that Luffy’s power comes from him not having anything to hold him back. The world balance being kept as is from the beginning of the story is because if any of the Yonko or the World Government makes a move the other Emperors (or the World Government) will use this chance to gain something from it, for example: If Big Mom tries to fight Kaido in order to get a copy of the Ponyglyph or vice versa, Shanks, Blackbeard or even the World Government could use this chance to their advantage. Same with World Government…if they try to capture one of the Yonko, it will need all their military power to put on a fight and that will leave the world nobles and their bases without anyone to protect it.

But with Luffy in the equation, everything crumbels. Him essentially not needing to protect anyone that stays at the same place all the time, gives him the freedom to fight anyone he wants without worrying about them. He went to Whole Cake Island, gained things and left things behind but in the end he still survived and is on his way to fight Kaido. Wether he defeats Kaido next arc or not, I am sure he will come out with at least damaging Kaido’s territory and defeating most of his strong fighters (Calamities, Shogun, etc…). And here is the thing: when Luffy escapes from an Island, nobody knows where he is at or how they can lure him because he himself doesn’t have a territory to return back to and if Kaido or Big Mom wants to chase after him, they need to risk leaving their territories in the open for a long period of time because as far as we know they won’t be able to pinpoint his location quickly. Imagine if Luffy has a territory at his current strength, firstly he won’t be able to protect it from other Yonkos and the Marine. Secondly Luffy’s way of life is that he wants to have adventure not staying at the same place for a long time. Him also having kingdoms that support him in secret (Alabasta, Dressrosa and Water 7) works to his advantage as nobody knows about them except Smoker (Albasta), Fujitora (Dressrosa) and Aokiji (Water 7) which are considered very honorable people. That leaves us with Fishman Island which is supposed to announce soon that they are under Luffy’s protection and I think it being so far away from where the Yonkos are and directly under Mariejois will make it hard for anyone to attack it.