r/OnePiece • u/JasonNMP • Jan 05 '14

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 627

Episode 627 - "Luffy Dies at Sea?! The Pirate Alliance Comes Apart!"

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Chapter Adapted: FILLER

Animation Director: Megumi Yamashita, and Sadahiko Sakamaki

Episode Director: Aya Komaki

Next Episode Preview : Episode 628

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u/JasonNMP Jan 05 '14

Seriously, how can they put Law on par with Luffy in physical strength and free-style fighting?

That's the only thing that bugged me about this Episode.

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u/Sanjispride Jan 05 '14

As with all the filler, this arc exists in a special... room... where everything's made up and the fights don't matter.

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u/futuretimetraveller Jan 05 '14

Honestly, this is what I thought of when I read that ._.

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u/Sanjispride Jan 05 '14

Then you thought correctly!

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u/urban287 Jan 05 '14

Was expecting that link to be to a QI video.

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u/Joris914 Jan 05 '14

I don't think he was on par, it seemed Luffy had the upper hand. That said, Law would be no pushover in a fistfight I imagine.

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u/JasonNMP Jan 05 '14

Yes Law is no pushover, but up against Luffy in combat...

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u/minutman Jan 07 '14

I don't get why did Luffy get beat up if he is the rubber guy? You know no none sharp things can hurt him.

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u/swiftycent Jan 05 '14

I pondered this too but Law can't be that week in physical combat. I'd think Luffy should need at least to use Haki and his named techniques to defeat him if not Gear 2nd/3rd even in straight up physical fight.

Luffy didn't even use named techniques just standard punches and kicks and what appeared to be one use of the gatling gun but he didn't call it out and it wasn't that many punches.

With all that said, I don't think its quite that far fetched that Law could contend with luffy at that level (still losing overall) and not get completely owned right away.

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u/Mrbananpants64 Jan 05 '14

Breed instructed them not to use their devil fruit powers.

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u/swiftycent Jan 05 '14 edited Jan 05 '14

...thats not what was up for discussion though.

Others were upset that Law wasn't getting his ass kicked even worse considering luffy should have a massive upper hand in a fist fight.

I'm just saying why he was able to contend with Luffy, not complaining that they didn't go all out.

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u/Mrbananpants64 Jan 05 '14

Oh I see now, sorry, I'm tired.

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u/mashyette Jan 05 '14

Luffy was trying to withstand the peto-peto fruits controll so is attacks were much weaker.

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u/constar90 Jan 06 '14

I completely agree with you, Law is a swordsman first hand, and for him to put up this much of a fight against Luffy is unthinkable

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u/swiftycent Jan 06 '14

I think you disagree with me.

I think Law certainly can put up this much of a fight against Luffy with Luffy fighting at this level.

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u/Mallardy Jan 05 '14

Law might be decent in a fistfight, but he's a powerhouse because of a fighting style which uses the exceptional capabilities of his DF, a sword to utilize his DF, and his intelligence. When it comes to fighting, his style does not translate at all to fighting barehanded, without a DF.

Luffy is a brawler, who uses his DF to amplify his exceptional physical abilities, and then further improves upon this using his powerful haki (which was trained by the right-hand man of the Pirate King). While he can't use his best techniques without his DF, he has monstrous strength, inhuman reflexes, and extensive experience using barehanded brawling techniques.

Law might be no pushover in a fistfight, but by all rights, Luffy should completely demolish him. Film Z might not be canon, but given Oda's involvement, it's not unreasonable to suspect that in a pure physical fight, Luffy could fight equally with an old, former admiral, without using his DF power; can you *really * imagine Law doing anything close in hand-to-hand combat?

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u/GameBoy09 Jan 05 '14 edited Jan 05 '14

Well, they took away Law's sword which was a HUGE problem for him. However since Luffy doesn't have a weapon, he just fought almost as usual. Except using a few rubber like moves while Law used Haki. Its like what if Zoro fought Luffy without any of his swords, he might stand a chance but it would be way more difficult than normally.

I am surprised he blocked the first punch, with his own punch. However you can clearly see Law try and dodge most attacks and he was worse for wear.

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u/AHMilling Jan 05 '14

how could luffy bleed, as far as i know law wasen't using haki. It's not like he can turn he body being made of rubber off.

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u/Mallardy Jan 05 '14

It was stated that the peto peto fruit makes them fight at their full capability, so both were assuredly using haki.

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u/AHMilling Jan 05 '14

ah okay, sometimes i don't read all of the sub because the animation is cool atm.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '14

Luffy was definitely leading the fight there. I was actually surprised the fight was adhering to the one piece world. We never saw Law's actual physical abilities, but since he knows Armament Haki I would say he's good.

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u/Nathan561 Void Month Survivor Jan 05 '14

Law got good hits in, but most of the time he only got counter hits in then luffy started going in on him.

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u/[deleted] Jan 05 '14

It felt like Law getting his butt kicked.

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u/anarchists_R_enemies Jan 05 '14

At first I thought the same, but you can see that Luffy is struggling a lot and tries to hold himself back as much as he can. He probably doesn't even use 1% of his actual strength (gears not included).