luffy said he was going to have 10 members, but that doesnt mean he will end with 10. of course he will have 10 at a certain point.
if they count going merry / thousand sunny they already have ten!

franky left his family
nami left her village
usopp left kaya
sanji left the restraunt
brook could of just saved some time and went to look for laboon

no chapter next week!

zoro indeed possess great swordmanship skills, but even still i doubt that he could beat luffy in all-out-fight.

atleast since luffy can now fully control gear 3 + 2(atleast i think so), and has the ability to use somewhat of haki and all(managed to punch blackbeard)

Jimbei might actually temporerally join, and jump off @ fisherman island whatsoever

and about Hancock.. she has whole island to take care of as the snake princess or something, so i highly doubt she would join either


E: o right, this is just my opinion and all, dont mind me

This post was edited by Pavise on Apr 1 2010 07:59am

luffy has no clue of haki so its useless if he fought zoro he wont release it.
zoro hasnt even learn how to fully use his new sword yet.
every arc he fights the second strongest enemy because luffy is the captain/main character
zoro is always basically hurt and never fully recovered and still manages to beat up people!
zoro fought the swordsman and also took the damage luffy would of taken from kuma, which probably would of killed luffy.

the thing about amazon lily is that the empress is often re-throned.
seeing how the elder ex empress was like the 12th one! or something >.<
margeret could be the new empress

This post was edited by mew on Apr 1 2010 08:03am

Which should make it about even, right? Zoro hasn't mastered his sword yet and Luffy has far from mastered his haki.



Well the thing is that so far all the "second strongest" villians have been really weak in comparison to the strongest ones.
For example, Zoro defeated Kaku without too much effort, but do you really think that he would have even standed a chance when facing Lucci who is twice as strong as Kaku, even when in human form?
Ofc Luffy is protected by a giant plot shield, I doubt that he would have been able to defeat people like Enel if he wasn't the main character of the series.



I definitely agree with you that Zoro possesses an endurance far greater than Luffy's.
For all we know he might even be stronger (from a weight lifting point of view) than him since all he does is working out.
But still, it has always been and will always be Luffy who defeats the main villians and the strongest people in the end because of the plot shield he has and it will remain that way.
Luffy exceeds Zoro in combat ability indeed. Especially now lol, while Zoro possibly have done nothing but playin' around with Perona this whole time, Luffy has been fighting his way to hell and back, improving both his haku and his actual fighting power a great deal in very a short time.
I mean, Zoro is the first mate after all and should not and will not exceed his own captain.

Anyway, we will probably never know what would happen if they ever fought as none of them would go all out when facing each other, even if pissed off really bad.

This post was edited by GuZ on Apr 1 2010 08:44am

yeah i know.
but when zoro fought kaku he had usopp tied to him >.<
it seems like he always has some sort of handicap

its that zoro never gets to fight the strongest, and doesnt get the chances luffy gets.
most of the time luffy gets to fight people stronger than him and goes all out beating them.
we rarely see that if at all with zoro.
and luffy was immune to enel!

Aye, I'd certainly be happy to see Oda push Zoro to his limits, we know that he can take a whole lot of damage, but still have yet to see him go all out.
As it is now I think that he purposely doing this to get the fans to speculate into it ^


Well, I think that it's kind of depressing that Enel overestimated himself that much. Why didn't he train his body to match the enormous power of his DF?
I mean, he arguably had the strongest logia power in the world of One piece.
Apart from that he could travel at the speed of a lightning and had the devastating power of mantra but in the end he was defeated with a couple of rubber punches and got his ass kicked by a raging 17 year old boy

This post was edited by GuZ on Apr 1 2010 09:22am

well he might still make a come back

wow, sounds a lot like







ur own ideas, think of them on ur own

This post was edited by Eep on Apr 1 2010 12:43pm

your idea is now my idea.


but anyway, if u give it a though, only that would make sense, since i cant rly see jimbei or hancock joining strawhats, and whitebeard pirates died..


ofc they both would be heading "home" dont u think?