One Piece Thread: Gear 2nd!

I got an idea guys. We need to find a way to give Oda our request for a cover page. Wouldn’t it be awesome and if we could get one ? lol

I’m guessing if Luffy ever becomes vulcan it will be near the end of the manga because he would then lose his elasticity making him pretty much useless.

Final war in Raftel.Vulcan Luffy,pretty epic IMO.

I just noticed that Raleigh has tears in the end. Why does he care about Luffy so much? Does he remind him of Roger that much?

Maybe he has the same personality or character of Roger, I think it was during the Eneis Lobby arc towards the end someone said that Luffy reminded them of that “idiot” Roger. Roger is still alive in Luffy’s spirit.

2 cents. :coffee:

Because he is the great white hope for the new era. Gear 2nd in just his arm means Luffy is on pimp status now.

Luffy and Roger have been tied in some mystical way since the beginning. It almost seems like the D-ness is a link of some kind.

awesome chapter!! just cant wait to see frank and robins powers. (maybe chopper and brooke too).

im actually not suprised by the fact luffy used gear 2nd in only part of his body. After all, he could do gear 3rd on it before, so its just a natural extensive.

Raleigh has spent more time with Luffy than his crew has. A year and a half on an island with him is longer than the crew’s entire trip down the first half of the grand line (pretty sure).

Luffy is just a lovable guy.

By making the pacifista the new fodder oda is now able to show the straw hats decapitating ,breaking necks, and maiming there enemies.Oda picked a good choice for fodder

Dude this chapter…GODLIKE.

Here is how I will rank the Strawhats from what I have seen and base most of it on assumptions

Luffy
Zoro
Sanji
Usopp
Maybe Chopper
Maybe Franky
O. Luffy
Brook (Barely is below O. Luffy level)
Nami (Its mostly from her intelligence)
Robin (She doesn’t use strength mostly intelligence so she will always remain low in power rankings)

I put O. Luffy as a reference point since he was pretty strong to start off with. I mean come on all the previous arcs Post Gear 2 proved how strong he was. Getting over O. Luffy was probably the hurdle that Sanji and Zoro wanted to go over…and they did superbly. Usopp I think has taken a few levels in badass altogether there for he is so high up there right now considering assumptions. I bet chopper growth wise will probably be super strong also especially if he mastered Monster Point therefore surpassing O. Luffy, but only if he ends up doing that. Franky…I think he is where O. Luffy was at Marineford. The only reason I put him slightly higher than O. Luffy because of versatility that he might be able to bring.

I doubt that Ussop reached O. Luffy’s strenght. I don’t think he ever will. In compensation he has GDLK sniper skills.

Current Usopp could probably be a good enemy boss for Luffy, but he wouldn’t be able to beat him unless he killed Luffy.

We all know that luffy, sanji, and zoro can pretty much steamroll the pacifistas, but I really hope Oda shows what the shichibukai has been doing. D Flamingo is probably more scary then he was before.

Woaah overating Usopp much? I seriously doubt he’s that strong.

Good point…I think he has also been working on combat skills at least I hope. Usopp shows the most potential out of the rest of the strawhats in my opinion. Be honest if you Zoro and Sanji were taken out and Luffy needed a tag team partner…He would pick Usopp in comparison to Franky Chopper Nami and Robin. Not to mention the fact he can take a pretty big beating himself…but then again O. Luffy was pretty beastly…so time will tell sir.

I wonder what shanks has been doing for 2 years. :coffee:

I would like to compare Blackbeard vs Ussop’s ability to take hits and get back up lol.

anyone who thinks like this needs to realize that haki is nothing NEW. It has been part of the One Piece universe since chapter ONE. Oda always had this in mind. It’s how fruit users are going to be fighting eachother in any kind of big fight.

Isn’t it too early for power rankings seeing as we’ve only seen the “monster trio” fight and not the rest of the crew.

Shanks is probably still #1 in the manga imo.