You‘re right with him being genetically modified anything is possible. I always thought him setting his own leg on fire was just about his burning passion and rage, but there might be a scientific explanation after all. Speaking of rage, Oda could as well just use his will to be stronger than Zoro as his natural drive qualifying him to be a CoC user.
Judges facial expression would be like:
Sanji constantly fighting Zoro is the oldest foreshadowing for Sanji to have CoC. This has skyrocketed with Oden’s flashback when we learnt that people with COC tend to fight each other (Rocks Pirates) and that’s why WB didn’t want Oden to join his crew. It is high time for Sanji to unleash it (I thought he would have done it to save Bonney when Saturn used his power on him and Vegapunk but Oda used Kuma instead) as we are already in the final saga since the end of Wano.
If this is true guess it will be like I'd guessed, CoC has two levels of advanced application. What Luffy learned in Wano is just level 1 aCoC. I'm also still thinking that CoO also has a second advanced level that Luffy will need to learn in the future (whatever Shanks is doing to block Future Sight).
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Strictly speaking we didn't see Gaban damaging god knights, sommers didn't die. What we saw is that his regeneration was temporarily stopped.
On the Judge and Sanji relationship, maybe Judge seeing that Sanji beat up Queen will make him happy since they were rivals at one point. Could be a point of pride for Judge even if he will never acknowledge it to Sanji.
Oh yeah, I didn't think of the queen thing even though his backstory at mads became pretty relevant during the fight. I suppose there's two scenarios considering queen's skillset, either judge is happy someone beat the crap out of queen or he resents sanji defeating a guy wielding the combined might of his technology.
I don't think we should focus on the dreams as much as the personalities of the ones who carry this ability. WB, Chinjao, Gaban and Katakuri all lacked dreams of gaining a title or standing above others, Yamato's dream was to be a whole other person, and yet they all had that disposition. This is what separates Law from Kid. When Law butts head with Luffy he always submits, always. But when Kid is doing the arguing it's a stalemate, even when it's pretty clear that Luffy's the strongest.
Whitebeard, Chinjao, Katakuri, and Kid had leadership titles in addition to their very determined personalities though. Gaban and Yamato are also very determined and don’t easily submit to anyone.
Absolutely bro, no doubt.Luffy will surpass both Shanks and Joyboy, I can't wait to see that
Which makes me wonder… on what principle will this next-level CoC work? I imagine it can’t just be about projecting it outward right? And I also seriously doubt it’s about converting it from one form to another, or making it purer? I can’t see where Oda's taking this. I hope we get a solid explanation soon.
I see, you really do rank him high on the power scale. Personally, I see Loki just below Luffy and around that level, but we'll see what happens if they clash directly or go all-out against Imu. One thing we can agree on though is that Luffy seriously needs training, both in armament and stamina, but especially stamina. It's not fun when you're one pump in but Luffy's stamina still manages to finish before you. Doesn’t cut it anymore at this stage, lol.
Man, no hope for the lower end fighters anymore, and I was rooting for Robin. Even Sanji’s Power of Love might need to be upgraded to a special form of CoC at this point, just to keep up.
Well when you put it like that, then good, since that means there would be four Conqueror’s users on the Straw Hats like there was with the Roger Pirates.
And I still think it‘s a shame that Jinbei as the strongest (known) fishman is a non CoC user. I just hope he‘s going to be a late bloomer and unleash it at some point.
Who is the fourth? as far as I can tell the roger pirates had 3 cladding users.