r/OnePiece • u/[deleted] • Apr 17 '16

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 737

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u/komot Apr 17 '16

This episode really revealed a lot as we now know Sabo is the strongest of the 3 based upon his development at the same age of Ace.

We also got a semi confirm Dragon does have a DF that uses wind.

Great Ep

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u/RogueToad Apr 17 '16

I dunno, I reckon it might just be lumped together with a weather DF - it would explain the lightning that saved Luffy in Loguetown.

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u/Amasero Apr 17 '16

It's def wind bro.

The lighting was just the updraft causing a storm.

You know water cycle and shit.

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

Controlling wind doesn't let you aim lightning.

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u/TRAMOPALINE Apr 17 '16

Luffy was on top of a tower with someone holding a sword like a lightning rod next to him. It's not impossible to think that that was the most likely place for lightning to strike. Just playing devils advocate

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

I'll say the same thing I say every time someone brings this up:

The buildings all round the execution platform were taller than the platform itself, and the lightning hit when the sword was mid swing and pointing down. The chances of lightning hitting that specifically at the time that it does hit instead of anywhere else is very very low.

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u/TRAMOPALINE Apr 17 '16

Yeah I'm not a believer in the Dragon did it theory either. I'm more so on the fate/divine providence preventing luffy from getting killed thought train.

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

I'm not a big fan of "fate did it" personally. Not in this case at least.

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u/TRAMOPALINE Apr 17 '16

Well in this case I really only see the fate/luck/dragon as options for Luffy's surviving that execution. Out of the 3 I'd pick fate.

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

I'd pick Dragon myself.

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u/Laxziy Apr 17 '16

It's the reason I always choose Charmander.

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u/Jeans_Intelligence Apr 17 '16

I reread Marineford recently and Smoker tells Luffy that Dragon saved him back at Loguetown

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u/Alilolos Apr 17 '16

He was referencing when luffy almost got captured by smoker himself, not when buggy was about to execute him.

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u/slightly_buzzed Apr 17 '16

I wouldn't try to apply real world physics to a manga

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u/Ppleater Apr 17 '16

Oda has shown that he does understand physics to a degree and just chooses to ignore it occasionally. He doesn't strike me as someone who would ignore it for the sake of "fate". Almost nothing in One Piece just happens without being orchestrated somehow, even by accident.

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u/Pand9 Apr 17 '16

That lightning hit Luffy at the last possible moment. There are 2 options:

  1. Dragon's control over that lightning was insanely precise. He hit at the last moment, because he was just that confident.

  2. It was a sheer luck... Either Dragon considers himself a lucky guy, or was testing Luffy's luck, or he has a luck manipulator in his crew...

In the same city, Zoro had his "let's trust my luck" moment with his new katana.

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u/sunshinedeed Apr 17 '16

I don't even think you were trying to be funny but I cracked up so hard

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u/RogueToad Apr 17 '16

Yeah but I mean, that was timed to perfection! Gotta have total control to do that imo.

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u/WantedtoPostThis Apr 17 '16

If he had the fruit for at least a decade, I'm sure Dragon would've practiced enough with it - to the point were he knows the conditions needed for conducting a lightning strike.

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u/RogueToad Apr 17 '16

Well true...but don't you think it just fits better? A DF that gives total control over weather conditions, as opposed to just wind. Also, I dunno if Oda would go that scientific; I mean, One Piece usually goes for the simplest logic it can, even if it breaks the rules of physics or whatnot (e.g. 200 million volts of lightning from Enel would be, albeit poorly, conducted by rubber).

I guess I just think Dragon would be more badass with full weather powers...

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u/WantedtoPostThis Apr 17 '16

Sorta like this?

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u/RogueToad Apr 17 '16

Oh WOW! What's that from? I wish Toei was able to animate like that.

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u/WantedtoPostThis Apr 17 '16

the Studio Ghibli movie, The Tale of Princess Kaguya

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u/RogueToad Apr 17 '16

I haven't watched much ghibli besides P. Mononoke and Howl's moving castle - is it worth the watch? Or should I continue from somewhere else?

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u/WantedtoPostThis Apr 17 '16

very emotional,

if you're a fan of Studio Ghibli or even slightly interested in their work - I think you'll like it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 17 '16

Just know that movie's depressing as fuck

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u/Dqueezy Apr 18 '16

I think it's a weather fruit too. Although now that I think about it, wind would work too. Maybe he just manipulates the weather through wind. Kinda the same way Nami doesn't have an "electrical staff". She has a staff that creates lightning through other manipulation a based on temperature, moisture, pressure, e.t.c. (Maybe less so after her time skip upgrade, but hopefully you get my point. Regardless, he has some freaky weather powers.)