We see multiple times people refer him as Sniper King or put tons of trust in him, like Izo did. So is he an icon for all the pirates who are snipers? Plus instead of just calling him usopp they go out of their way to call him God Usopp.
Honestly, I really hope Oda doesn't just slap basic Armament and Observation Haki onto Crocodile in the final saga just to keep up with power scaling. Crocodile was at his absolute best in Alabasta because he didn't rely on raw brute-force Haki, he was a genuine criminal mastermind who carried entire arcs using pure strategy, preparation, and devil fruit mastery.
Crocodile built Baroque Works into a shadowy, nation-toppling syndicate where nobody even knew who the boss was. He didn't just walk into Alabasta and beat people up; he engineered a drought, framed the King, orchestrated a civil war, and played both sides like a fiddle. If he just turns into another "my Haki punch is stronger than your Haki punch" guy, he loses what made him unique compared to simple brawlers like Kaido or Lucci.
Back in Alabasta, Crocodile showed us what actual Devil Fruit mastery looks like without Haki. He forced Luffy to think outside the box (using water, then blood) because Croc had mastered his sand to the point of turning into an intangible trap. If he relies on wits, he has to keep coming up with high-IQ combat applications, like dehydrating entire battlefields, creating quicksand, or using environmental advantages, rather than just coating his hook in black Haki and swinging.
In Cross Guild right now, Mihawk is the sheer muscle and Buggy is the public figurehead/clown. Crocodile is supposed to be the actual manager and strategist running the entire underworld operation. Having him be the guy who outsmarts marine admirals and controls global bounties through logistics and extortion, makes him stand out so much more as a major player.
Crocodile was the first real wall Luffy hit, not because Crocodile had higher willpower stats, but because Crocodile was a veteran pirate who knew how to exploit every weakness, use poison, and capitalize on Luffy's recklessness. Making him rely on his wits keeps that dynamic alive: he’s the cynical, calculating veteran who plays chess while everyone else is playing checkers.
Giving Haki to every single character in the New World has made fights kind of homogenized lately. Keeping Crocodile as a ruthless, hyper-intelligent schemer who uses fruit awakening, tactical manipulation, and sheer preparation to body Haki users would be peak writing.
where did this argument come from, apparently green bull and Fuji are mid and lose to people like law and kid, because no they don’t Fuji and green bull should comfortably beat people like law, kid, luffy if you think Kizaru was holding back. I feel like this whole thing came from akainu fans trying to upscale him
So I just rewatched the remnants of the Big Mom Pirates vs. the Blackbeard Pirates, and goddamn, Cracker got downscaled so hard.
Cracker is almost equal to Katakuri—that's a fact. His fight against Luffy went on for 14 hours of hit-and-run, while Katakuri's was 12 hours of pure 1v1. Plus, we literally know Gear 4 alone couldn't even break a single Biscuit Warrior without King Kong gun or without Nami's water.
Yet the anime has Van Augur one-shotting a Biscuit Warrior, and Kuzan one-tapping Cracker himself? That would never happen. In the manga, we only saw the aftermath—it never showed Cracker getting zero-diffed like that. I know damn well he wouldn't just fold instantly. He’s not stupid, and his stats aren't weak either—people need to stop saying his durability sucks just because he dislikes pain!
I've seen people yell about how usopp is wasted potential and his observation haki should be the best in the series. Like cmon y'all usopp should always be the weakest person on the strawhats, that's what will make his time to shine be so much greater, when he has to fight somebody miles above his paygrade to be a brave warrior of the sea (that'll probably be van auger) it'll be like mumen rider vs deep sea king.
Now about usopp's observation haki, while yes it would be cool to see him unlock it he should never get future sight, likely just basic observation, if usopp ever got future sight it would completely negate the whole point of his character and outshine how mighty his sniping skills are (people do tend to forget usopp rarely misses)
There's one more thing that's been annoying me about usopp... he's not creative anymore. Usopp used to use creative aways to beat his opponents like using dials and gas on luffy, Using mind games on Perona, hell even just using the ton-ton hammer, now all usopp does is spam exploding star.
I might be misinterpreting marco's healing capabilities but couldn't he have just pocketed whitebeard throughout marineford to make sure he took relatively no damage, I mean he took what 200 slashes, 150 bullet wounds, 50 cannon shots, etc. I feel like marco has healed way worse.
I've seen people yell about how usopp is wasted potential and his observation haki should be the best in the series. Like cmon y'all usopp should always be the weakest person on the strawhats, that's what will make his time to shine be so much greater, when he has to fight somebody miles above his paygrade to be a brave warrior of the sea (that'll probably be van auger) it'll be like mumen rider vs deep sea king.
Now about usopp's observation haki, while yes it would be cool to see him unlock it he should never get future sight, likely just basic observation, if usopp ever got future sight it would completely negate the whole point of his character and outshine how mighty his sniping skills are (people do tend to forget usopp rarely misses)
There's one more thing that's been annoying me about usopp... he's not creative anymore. Usopp used to use creative aways to beat his opponents like using dials and gas on luffy, Using mind games on Perona, hell even just using the ton-ton hammer, now all usopp does is spam exploding star.
There is no gender pay gap the issue is purely in the jobs that woman choose, You see while men choose jobs like doctors, lawyers, and constructors. Woman choose lower paying jobs like female doctor, female lawyer, and female constructors
How does it feel to be focused?
How does it feel to take blame?
I watched supports die in horror
Dived by a Spider-man main
I heard their frantic pinging
Calling their Vanguard in vain
Look what this patch turned me into
Look what I've become
All of the stuns that I've been through
Haven't I front lined enough?
You didn't heal when I begged you
Told me to just play my part
You watched my screen go dark
Didn't you say that swapping to duelist is mercy upon ourselves?
How does it feel to be focused?
How does it feel to take blame?
I watched supports die in horror
Dived by a Spider-man main
I heard their frantic pinging
Calling their Vanguard in vain
Look what this patch turned me into
Look what I've become
All of the stuns that I've been through
Haven't I front lined enough?
You didn't heal when I begged you
Told me to just play my part
You watched my screen go dark
Didn't you say that swapping to duelist is mercy upon ourselves?
idk who needs to hear this but Enel isn't that strong, and his observation haki is some of the worse we've seen in the show, the reason he can see that far is because he uses his df to send out electric waves to track everything that happens and exists through them, he didnt have the reaction speed to dodge luffys attack which makes him infinitly slower than kizaru and even a ray of light from a pacifista which also makes him weaker to any character stronger than a pacifista, plus if he suffered serious damage from luffy pre-timeskip he gets one shotted by the monster trio, post-timeskip pacifista durability>>>>>> enel durability and each of the monster trio has one shotted a pacifista. I'd probably put enel near like dillenger level... that dude from dressrosa, somewhere around that like maybe a low executive.
If miwa beats nothing
and nothing beats goku
then miwa definitely beats goku because of the law of syllogism