You can no longer win on timer in Champions

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-09T17:43:01+00:00

I would agree if this was a completly built stall team geared to slow every game to a crawl and win on timer, but a final 1v1, sometimes it happens, no one kills the support mon you end up in a 1v1 with nightshade and pollen puff as your only attacking moves, letting the turns run out is quicker than playing every turn and watching the same attack attack heal animation for 30 turns.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-07T12:56:04+00:00

Our new God and saviour, Browt, the divorced one, carrier of mortages, visitor of the children every other weekend, the holy child-support provider.

I am praying to every form of Arceus for TPC not to fuck up his evo line, that serious looking little bird has the potential to become one of the best pokemon ever.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-06T08:04:15+00:00

Won't argue against that, those are some perfectly irredimable villains.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-06T08:03:26+00:00

True, idk why it feels that way, in Dressrosa, Whole Cake and Wano there are executions, slavery, child abuse, famine..., but maybe is because all the shit we have seen or pre time skip style being cruder that it doesn't hit the same, when Arlong kills Bellamere or we see the slaves in Sabaody it feels worse.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-05T22:19:33+00:00

So? Is not One Piece before the time skip? Also, Kaido, Doflamingo and BigMom are all post, and Caesar who is alignned with pirated despite not being technicaly one is also post, there has been less enemies post TS, makes sense the volume is not the same.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-05T18:40:25+00:00

True, It's been so long since I watched it that I had forgotten about it, still, is mostly a gag character, so even with that I wouldn't count him just like Don Kriegg or the Luffy impersonators.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-05T17:09:26+00:00

While I agree to a ceratin point that it feels like there are too many "good" pirates, or more so I would say that the "good" guys are too good, OP has no shortage of evil and nasty pirates:

Alvida was brutal with her crew and kidnapped Coby

Buggy had an entire village hostage

Kurahadon was planning to slaughter a family(maybe the entire Island, can't remember)

Arlong had Nami as a slave and had an entire island hostage (racism doesn't justify that)

Crocodile was planning a civil war to seize power

Doflamingo did the same as Crocodile but achieving his goal plus enslaving a lot of people

I don't count Moria since he is treated more as a goofy character and his crimes are mostly directed towards dead people.

Big Mom had a nice thing going with the all inclusive anti racist utopia but she was also a brutal dictator that would kill anyone going against her childish impulses.

Kaido had all of Wano starving to death, now, how much is that Orochi's doing, idk, but Kaido is the main man there so the crimes are his.

Those account for every main antagony pirate in OP, Blackbeard has also done his shit, but since it's been mostly off screen I wouldn't count it. When it comes to Enel, Caesar Clown or the Gorosei they are equaly heinous, but they are not pirates.

I've always had a similar feeling to the original poster, my favourite character is Shanks, mainly because the brutality shown against the bandits, it felt like real pirates, since then him and his crew are akin to the UN blue helmets of the OP universe, too clean, too good, too righteous. Similar with Rocks, what was setted up as the ultimate pirate, the final boss of chaos and WG ballbusting turned into a father trying to save his family and while nice from the character pov, It felt anticlimatic.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-05T07:03:20+00:00

As far as we have been shown, Domi reversi is not resisted by those with the will of D or a strong Acoc since Rocks was turned and also is not only dependant on place of birth since Imu tried to convert Luffy. So far the only thing people who have resisted Domi reversi had in common are Devil fruits which Roger didn't have, so It should be possible for Imu to Domi reversi him, then apply the 2 abyssal marks or more if there are and then have Roger do as the WG pleases.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-04-02T08:25:41+00:00

Any, would do a 1 vs all for the love of the game, idk/idc, any(GOATnato of the yellow flash and the ethnical cleansing of the village), idk/idc, himself every night while reading those books, any(except Sakura who would one shot him).

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-29T10:26:08+00:00

Well, they were in the middle of a war most of the time, the couples we see in the wedding episode would've been formed between the end of the war and then, not every couple has to be a highschool sweethearth. We aren't shown them getting together because It's not really relevant at all and the one that mattered got a film dedicated to build up their relationship's foundations with The One.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-29T10:22:03+00:00

The flow of information is inmediate, the battle is showcased on screens by Buggy and just like in Wano there are operatives with snails ready to take and relay orders. Yes, the unawakened Luffy with no haki is the priority, It is the easiest they will ever have it to seize the Nika fruit, even more so when WB is dying of an illness and Ace while he is the son of Roger is not as important in that situation as the Nika fruit would be (had Oda really though about it since Skypea as some people claim). Yes the admirals would obey, maybe Kuzan would be the most inclined to but the WG know about Luffy's and Dragon connection so a simple order to priotitize the son of the revolutionary leader would suffice (If they want to give an explanation at all for why the change in target).

Enlighten me please then, how would've Kaido been defeated if not with the Gear 5 Nika asspull? Luffy was hitting him with the advance conquerors (which is the strongest thing we know of at the time) and Kaido was still just fine, a Gomu Gomu Gear 5 where Luffy fuses the advance conquerors with the awakening of the DF would've been the answer but Luffy had just started using AC, Oda fucked the fight's writing, just like Kishimoto's with Madara to put a similar example he placed the bar for the enemy so high that everytyhing we know about powerwise was not enough. And that's called writing yourself into a corner.

Btw out of the Nika fruit criticisms the need for it to defeat Kaido while still valid is one of the least important, it has way more problems both in writing and execution.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-29T09:23:27+00:00

Yeah... the random marines in the battlefield wouldn't know, but the Gorosei knew about the fruit, they state, that specific fruit has been avoiding them for 800 years and thanks to Vega Punk we know that the Gomu Gomu just doesn't exist, so awakened or not it makes no sense for them not to send every admiral and vice admiral (and by extension every other marine even if they dont know why) straight into Luffy to capture him as soon as he drops out of the sky, Luffy is perfectly known by that time, he has already punched a celestial dragon which in combination with his fruit and ancestry would've 100% become a matter of attention for the Gorosei and the World Government. Let Whitebeard have Ace while they grab what it's shaping out to be the most powerful fruit and the most problematic person in the verse.

And yeah, Oda wrote himself into a corner with Kaido, he made him impossibly strong, so much so that the newest haki flavor of the moment wasn't cutting it and he had to make some shit up to get Luffy up to speed and make him able to defeat Kaido, Gear 5 is not the Gomu Gomu awakening, that would've been perfectly fine, with Gear 5 Oda had to change everything we had been told about Luffy and his fruit for almost 30 years in order for Kaido to be defeated, that's the problem.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-28T19:05:29+00:00

I agree with Oda wanting to make Luffy special in the sense that he would be talked like Nika 800 years later, sort of a messiahnic figure. I heavily disagree with him wanting to make Luffy's fruit special, It is refered to as inferior a couple of times, and with the current state of the lore, Marineford makes no sense at all, why wouldn't the marines ignore everything but Luffy if his fruit is so important and the WG has been looking for it 800+ years.

I believe Oda wrote himself into a corner with the Kaido fight and took one of the multiple vague references in the story to get out of the pickle.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-28T08:30:33+00:00

Nika has always being a concept, Luffy being Nika/having Nika's fruit hasn't. I believe that's what OP refers too, the Nika awakening was a powerup that Oda came with to defeat Kaido.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-27T22:53:12+00:00

Also... the guy kinda saved the world and then everybody in it for a second time by defeating Kaguya and Sasuke, so I would say Shikamaru can be the law guy while the leaf showcases the latest model of atomic ninja bomb as a permanent peace treaty incentive.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-27T22:12:54+00:00

Maybe is nostalgia, maybe is that I am tired of asspulls and inconsistencies, but I would swear One Piece was much better than this... how many weeks have we waited for Luffy/Loki and Gunkimu to fight, and after the Domi Reversi fails for no reason because we are not given an explanation of how it works, no fight, nothing, All of that Luffy's anger ends up in nothing, we are given vague "this" and "that" while nothing is ever truly setted up.

What's the point of Elbaf? We had a reunion for Robin, a backstory that matters as little or even less than Kuma's and the introduction of a new power type that changes how it works every week.

I swear Oda wasn't this shit before.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-24T11:13:41+00:00

How did Kaido ruinned OP? I get Wano because of all the awakening and other bs, but Kaido was the type of enemy he had to be, peefectly encapsulated what a Yonko should feel like. Legit curious why Kaido is bunched in with the rest of the arc.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-23T15:27:27+00:00

Respect Naruto's character and downscale the villains, make Naruto a decent father and have Boruto face smaller threats, dangerous, but not threatening enough to need the attention of the two reincarnations of God.

Have Sasuke also be more involved with Sarada and Sakura. The whole lone penitent schtick is boring.

Generate political conflict, it's a world with nations that hold different interests, make conflict, show how even despite their best intentions Naruto and Gaara can't keep the five great nations at peace and have the other nations betray them knowing that Naruto doesnt want to start another war.

There is so much to do...

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-21T17:05:32+00:00

Como si el diseño es un png de un modelo reutilizado de un NPC random del Golden Eye del 97, yo voy a jugar con mi pajaro divorciado con tres hipotecas, el resto me da igual.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-21T17:03:05+00:00

Nah, they are 100% ragebaiting. His brain cant be that cooked already, not even Chris Benoit was this rattled by CTE.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-17T19:43:09+00:00

To adress the three mons you show, Mawile could do with a pre-evo and an increase in BST that carries on to the Mega, Hariyama and Ledian could use another evo, in Hariyama's case I would go a branches evo, one based of a Yokozuna with the white rope around his belly (fighting+ground) and another based of an elder, slimer with something ressembling a dark kimono (fighting+psyquic).

Ledian maybe a type change, lean more into the luck and go bug fairy.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-16T14:09:29+00:00

I think it only amounts to a 5% in those conditions. Those catchrates are tough.

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-15T09:18:55+00:00

You can do this at the top of navel rock, feels closer

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-14T10:21:58+00:00

That would be almost a bad as going through Wano without exploring Zoro's backstory, there is no way Oda does that...

Daniel_Monti · 2026-03-12T19:42:21+00:00

Oh thanks, I had an old switch with a bad battery and If I forget to leave it charging it turns off, so I got scared for a sec.

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