@Flipper:
Sabo is the better version of ace. Has pretty much just relied on his Devil Fruit. Sabo on the other hand has been trained with Haki for about 10 years +?
Akainu only talks about Devil Fruits and how there are superior ones. Sabo will be teaching him a massive lesson and that is, Haki > Devil fruits mainly pointing at Logias.
That's why people like Rayleigh and Shanks are just Haki Prods because they dont need it, it's just a bonus thing.
I think that's why Aokiji lasted against Akainu, he did not rely on his Devil Fruit.
Makes a lot of sense for me. But for Aokiji to last so long against Akainu I expect both of them to use mostly their devil fruits + rest of stuff.
As for me you cant ibue with CoA logias attack like Fire or Ice fist, Kizaru lasers(otherwise he would instantly make Hawkings full of holes two years ago and not worn out his voodoo-dolls limit) or paramecias powers like Law cutting ability or Fujitoras gravity etc also cant be imbued with haki.
So DF power like magma or ice can be great counter to each other and only with haki you can sure shield yourself but if you are like Garp for example- haki beast with no devil fruit- either you will break through enemys DF with haki or his ability will break through yours haki.
Its like DF is separated thing, not mixed up with haki in any way with some exceptions like for example powers that are part of users body- Luffys punches or even guy like Daz Bones imbuing his blade-like body with CoA same way like Zoro does add CoA to his 3 swords. It would give back an slight edge to paramecias and Zoans as well as it would balance things out as for long time logias were god-like calss on their own.
Oda lately tries to do something about it- best example is Pekoms words about Logias who think they are invincible having short life span.
@Light:
Nah. Luffy is the main character! He should have the honors.
Sure Luffy should have all of it yet Sabo has to have some match up for last final war/ battle and it would make sense if Sabo as Revolutionary would do the beating. His recent DF power up also points to Sabo vs Akainu in future.
It would be awesome if Akainus ideology/way o thinking about people was crushed, if he would start to regret a lot of what he did- instead of killing him I think. Raw awesome fight before that would be nice though
Akainu then doing absolute justice to some of Celestial Dragons and World Goverment might be how it will end up for him. He sure killed Ace and might seem beyond redemption but he is character doing what he believes in in the end, we seen some characters like Crocodile reedeming themselves and we didnt seen past of Mingo yet so maybe all of terrible harm he has done has some really screwed up past. Sure they are assholes but that doesnt mean they are stupid or simple minded. If life was ruthless to Akainu and Mingo for too long, no wonder they came up as they are. Kaido seems to be first character that kills because he can to hold his regin. He killed Morias crew just because Moria lost to him, so he might be different case than Akainu, Mingo and some others.
We had Hody who I think was pretty original - an empty enemy with no substancial reasons behind his hate towards humans as they did nothing to him directly. Now we have Doflamingo who aims at some goals and can do everything just for success. Even experimentation on children and selling weapons to countries at war and provoking wars as well.
And I have few thoughts on Kaido as we should soon see him.
For Kaido I expect that he either wants to be strongest person alive, he wants to be king of pirates or he has some different goal, very simple by definition.
Also Law words to Mingo that "He is not very understanding man". Moria openly called Kaido and dumb idiot or something like it so all of it can be related.
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So I expect that Kaido is so ruthless and not understanding at all because he is a powerful beast that ate some amazing devil fruit and that gave him human abilities like talking and more complex thinking.
I expect him to be some animal with lots of fur themed beast as his favourite island was said to be the snowy one where Drake landed two years ago and lately also Caribou. Chopper often shares with us how happy he is when Strawhats are in some cold place, especially when there is snow around.
Kaido can be also Vegeapunk/Marine related experiment effect. Surely some furry beast theme should be expected.
Maybe that beast origin can explain why Doflamingo reacted with that face and all the sweat as he knows he cant talk sense to Kaido as he is some kind of beast humanoid so loosing Cesar would mean conflict with Kaido that cannot be avoided in any possible for other pirates way. Maybe Doflamingo is showing fear of unavoidable conflict with Kaido and not purely Kaido himself.
That would also explain simple rule of Kaido from one of covers- whoever opposes dies and him killing crewmembers of Moria presumably just because Moria lost to him.
It would be second side of "being simple minded" coin compared to how Dwarfs are shown in this arc.
I have lost of free time today so I get into details…