Discussion Most of the Straw Hats are now irrelevant, except as tools.

[electricmastro]

So since Sanji has become part of the Conqueror's Trio (with the Conqueror's Quartet to come), I can only presume that the rest of the Straw Hats have now become irrelevant. Irrelevant in terms of their fighting capability, since Conqueror's is the only thing that will hurt Imu, his monster minions, and other extremely strong foes at this point. And that we can only expect that Chopper and the rest will only be needed when it comes to patching people up at the end of arcs, reading poneglyphs for him, fixing up his ship, in other words, Luffy's tools.

How are you guys feeling about this very unfortunate outcome?

 

[costicla]

You mean, they are continuing to perform the roles they have had on the ship since they joined? The roles Luffy more or less picked them for? What exactly is unfortunate about Sanji getting Conqueror's? He and Zoro are Luffy's main fighters, of course they should be the ones that take on the toughest enemies.

 

[Cortes]

I never expected the entire crew to have conquerors haki BUT at least some sort of haki should be given to everyone.

 

[TitaniumOxide]

I think there will be meaningful moments and fights for everyone without CoC. The ones with CoC are also tools because they are the only ones who can deal with GKs, Gorosei, and Imu. Chop may be a healer but they're not unimportant especially if he can slap away domi reversed people. It may not be as exciting than seeing Jinbe fishman chop mofos but all of them has a role to play. I think they all will have their moments still. For example, we see a shitton of land battles. We are bound to get some crazy Jinbe boat feats in the coming future.

People are overly worried about the end. There are a shitload of characters but look, Kidd and Law already got their screen time and so has Crocodile. We don't need a lot. Snippets is fine. It's what we have been getting, and it is the formula Oda uses. We might see Kid in a panel of skirmish then the King dude unleashes a King's Punch... then a bit later, Kidd pops back in in a larger spotlight panel to showcase his finisher. Then Law's. And so on. The SHPs though? We're going to see some personal fights like what is going on right now with Zoro and Sanji. I really don't think Oda will sideline our OGs and do them dirty even if there are so many other characters to deal with.