Could Zoro Defeat Luffy's Enemies?

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🎨 𝙻𝚎𝚐𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝙰𝚛𝚝𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔 𝚋𝚢:

[mrshamaki]

Zoro uses swords but he's also completly insane in terms of physical strength for any normal human, he could punch Buggy to the ground very easily at any point in the story imo

[maxlee]

Zoro grabbed a Baroque Works agent by the head and squeezed. And knocked another agent out without fully drawing the blade.
Both good ways of beating Buggy

[chilliicecream]

I was kinda wondering if Luffy could beat all of Zoro’s opponents. Especially early on, since they’re all swordsmen and he’s vulnerable to cutting attacks.

[jf_kein_k]

Didn't Zoro say after Luffy punched out Charlos, that he would have done that if Luffy didn't?

[aymangold]

One piece is the best anime like if its true

[CurlyB]

I’d still love a “What If Ace accepted the offer to become a Warlord?”. I’d love to see how that’d change to progression of the story

[SpiritOfGotham]

On the topic of Buggy, what if Zoro just used the sides of his blades to do blunt damage instead of cutting? I think he could win after figuring out that cutting is ineffective.

Edit: YES I AM AWARE OF NO SWORD STYLE. I went with the sides of his swords because that was used in Whiskey Peak while no sword style debuted in Long Ring Long Land, which was much later.

[skyj]

1:07
Zoro: zero sword style....
Buggy: your attacks don't work against me!
Zoro: Mayweather special!!

[gamongames]

Some of the matchups were treated like Dragon Ball power levels and left out nuances important to OP power scaling that make these fights interesting to speculate.

1) Buggy is the absolute hard counter to swordsmen without haki but we see Zoro using swords inverted as blunt weapons all the time pre-timeskip and Buggy was incapacitated several times by Luffy's normal attacks so as long as Zoro realizes quickly that Buggy will need improvisation he could take that one easily. The only doubt is the fact that the first time he faced Buggy he got tricked into being stabbed and weakened so if we assume that didn't happen to give Zoro full strenght before the fight it means that would probably happen during the fight, maybe taking away his opportunity.

2) Don Krieg boasted about his steel armor the whole fight and it took Luffy multiple finishers to break through it. Zoro has a whole arc about finally becoming able to cut through steel and that happens way later in Alabasta so, its not a clean win agains Krieg. It's not impossible because he can swim and wouldn't goof around as much as Luffy so a hit to Krieg's head is still viable but it's an unclear result, pending to Krieg's side.

3) Mr. 3 is another problematic matchup because we literally see Zoro try and fail to cut the wax at this point so even though its not impossible given Zoro skill and persistence, this one pends heavily to Mr. 3 side and it's not a clean kill.

4) Wapol poses a weird challenge because he's literally made of a special metallic-alloy that we later see being used by advanced tech because of its special properties and Zoro still can't cut metal at this point. Again not impossible but it would be far from easy as the enemy would be a metal fortress full of canons and weapons against a swordsmen without haki.

4) Crocodile is pretty much open to interpretation since if we buy that Luffy can hit him because his fist being wet makes the sand crumple we are forced to apply this bullshit logic to wet swords as well. Maybe he can't cut him, but he could hit him with blunt force, and thats ignoring his pre-haki that took down Mr. 1.
Still don't think he can match Crocodile's skill since it took Luffy multiple tries to win that one and he nearly died in multiple of those, being saved by his Luffyness but it's another messy fight.

5) Moria is absolutely not going down by Zoro's hands in Thriller Bark tho. We see the absurd difference Gear 2 and 3 make at the very end of the pre-timeskip, in terms of speed and power.
The entire crew spent the night ganging up on Oars but Luffy literally crumpled him with a single Gear 3 attack to the face. Luffy is just too fast and too strong using the gears to be comparable to Zoro at this point and Moria wasnt even defeated by Luffy, using both gears he still only managed to push the Warlord back enough that the tower falling on him finished the fight. Being able to tank the same damage, through the Kuma bubble, doesn't mean Zoro would fight as well as Luffy did.

6) No-haki Zoro would never touch the gorgon sisters in Amazon Lily with simple sword attacks. We only see the tide of battle change when Luffy starts using Gear 2 to blitz them and all his attacks were being repelled by their armament's like nothing. Maybe he could tap into some haki here but the fight is still very much biased towards them.

7) Katakuri is the most interesting matchup of them all if you think about it. Luffy was only able to win here because of his natrual affinity for evolving mid-battle. He insisted on extending the fight as much as possible so that he could basically train observation haki while battling and it paid off in the end but we need to remember that the one straw hat with the earliest talent for developing haki is actually Zoro. In Alabasta we saw him use both armament and observation haki before any of those were even explained.
If we agree that the main requirements to beat Katakuri is being strong to last long while developing haki mid-fight to match his future sight, Zoro is probably the only other candidate that would make sense here.
The only part that makes this seem a bit impossible is the fact that Luffy needed Gear 4 to keep up at the end stage of the fight and people sometimes forget but Gear 4 combines the speed from the blood-pump of Gear 2 with a superior version of the strenght of Gear 3 (since he learns to inflate the muscles instead of the bones, gaining power beyond just size) and all of that encased in constant armament armor.
That is an absurd boost in speed, power and durability that Zoro just doesnt have and would need to progress the same as Luffy did but using just base form through the whole fight.
Even an Asura here woulndt make that much of a difference outside of a certain finisher if he cant manage to last and trade blows for as long as Luffy did to be able to adapt to future-sight.

[musticlas]

If I remember correctly, Zoro was ready to cut Charlos when Luffy punched him.

ALSO, here's the thing. Zoro has been chilling for the entire New World until the raid. There's no way Zoro jumped from <Dofy to =King just by getting Enma, Zoro must have been close enough all along already for Enma to give him the edge needed to beat King.
So, while Zoro vs Dofy is probably still debatable, BUT Zoro without Enma is DEFINITELY beating Cracker. No two ways about that.

[mrs]

I think you nailed more than 90% of the battles. The one I strongly disagree with is against buggy. All that zoro has to do is reverse his blade and he can easily beat up buggy with the blunt side. Another option would simply use his strength and punch him or kick him. I know he is a swordman but he is faster and stronger than buggy so there. Also, if we take into account the non cannon movement of no sword stile that could be a third way (assuming he could do it at this time)

[julianvankuijk]

Hi Ohara! I always wondered about this! Thank you! 😎👍❤

[mehdiachouri]

I really like this very detailed analysis hypothetical of how Zoro can more or less defeat most of Luffy’s opponents throughout the story so far, and I’m so glad and happy that Zoro actually unlocked advanced conquerors Haki

[grimbithefloob]

Ngl idk if zoro would’ve been able to break krieg’s armor. Remember yhe point of plate armor is to be incredibly resistant to swords, and krieg’s armor in particular is made of an incredibly durable material. Luffy was able to break it cuz he has incredibly blunt strength which is plate armor’s weakness

[gamefreak]

I think you may be underestimating Arlong during East Blue

[RoadbloxGamer-uorc]

Doflamingo: looks like we got a strong one in our hands post wano zoro: looks like we got a dead one on our hands

[bishalboro]

VIDEO SUGGESTIONS ; ) What if Zoro and Sanji fight each other's opponents and Yonkos become marines

[GiRR]

When it comes to doflamingo I dont think even luffy would have been able to break the bird cage, not even fuji tora was able to break it. But considering how well zoro was doing throuighout the ark without using asura I think he stands a good change of beating doflamingo.


Same thing with katakuri, we never saw zoro even need to use ashura before wano so if he did use it against kat i think zoro would win.

[AmrAlnamer]

0:43 slight correction beast tamer mohji is the first mate not the other guy

[Tora_Hu]

2:00 Even if he had haki, no one can hurt buggy with slashing weapons he is immune, mihawk sliced buggy to ribbons in the war arc and he definitely has haki. And also Zoro would easily beat buggy, he can just punch him he is not immune to blunt damage.