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So let's talk about King and Queen and how OP they actually are with their full arsenal/potential/taken to their logical extreme.
Was going to do a big essay on it, but I don't feel like it anymore, so I'll list the highlights.
King: Everything has mostly been said about him, so I don't really have much to add. He's impressive and a great example of a well-rounded pirate. He doesn't get much flak, but I do see the odd wild take about him.
- Devil Fruit:
- The biggest obstacle presented to Zoro was King's durability and that trait was amplified by his devil fruit, which he conveniently lessened the use of during the final moments of their fight. Aside from the bonus durability granted to King by his fruit, it also provided a number of different techniques that Zoro had serious trouble dealing with, including Tempuraudon, which Zoro never actually found a way around. His fruit also gave him additional physical strength, which Zoro also had troubles with and never fully countered.
- Most Dangerous Gimp:
- Only shown for a whopping single chapter, King's gimp suit has been outfitted with a number of inbuilt weapons that should've provided him with various additional methods of harming his opponents in CQC. Obviously not a serious game-changer, but there were a couple of moments where King got the drop on Zoro where those implements conspicuously went unused.
- Explosive Counters:
- Another ability shown for a whopping single chapter, King demonstrated the ability to release a massive explosion as a counter. An explosion so powerful, Zoro had noted that he would've died had he not managed to put up his armament at the last minute. Still, it created enough force to blow Zoro back and leave him open to counters which, of course, wasn't capitalized on by King.
- Lunarian Flames vs Fox-Fire Style:
- King switched his preferred manner of attack to his Lunarian flames rather than his fruit abilities, which technically gave Zoro a more reliable method of countering King.
- Excite Bullets:
- Don't even know where to start with this. To start with, Queen, befitting his epithet, is an effective virologist. His Mummy Virus nearly put Luffy on ice and Ice Oni was a troublesome roadblock for the alliance. I also believe that the Blinding Arrows that were used as a show of force against Oden's people were one of his as well. But..that's only three viruses. Queen should technically have a decent collection of viruses of various threat levels. But that's not all, Queen was capable of applying those viruses to ammunition for guns. Queen should have a crap ton of those bullets for easy use. But HereNThere, you might say, Zoro destroyed Queen's manner of dispersal by destroying his gatling gun. Which is correct...until you remember that Queen also has various guns within his own body, including another Gatling gun in his mouth and guns on his side. But HereNThere, you continue, Chopper was able to figure out a cure for Queen's viruses! Also correct, but Chopper was lucky enough to only have to work with a single virus at a time. If Queen had multiple viruses on hand and constantly switched them up? Well, things likely wouldn't work well in the frame of time they were working with.
- Lasers:
- This is more so on Oda than Queen. Lasers in One Piece are simultaneously super lethal and non-threatening. They have incredible explosive force (sometimes), extreme heat (sometimes), and can usually pierce anything (sometimes). Queen had a number of them bad boys and should've really done major damage all over the place. Next time we see Franky with whatever Laser upgrade, bet it's going to be shown to be more effective than Queen's for reasons. There's also the fact that he had Sanji held and didn't just shoot a hole through him while he was restrained.
- DF/Brachiohiss/General Physical Abilities:
- This is just a strange technique that really highlights Queen's actual physical strength. Capable of bypassing hardening through straight physical strength is pretty amazing. Add that into the fact that Queen didn't even use his own hardening as well and the level of power this technique has is probably greater than we saw. I honestly don't see many people getting out of this technique. His Devil Fruit in general in conjunction with his cybernetics also provides plenty of endurance. He may not be Kaido or King, but I don't see him going down that much easier than them. Especially when you consider that he took a slice from King's haphazard attack pretty easily and recovering from a decent attack to the face from Marco.
- Germa Lineage Factors:
- Pretty straightforward here. Queen only used these techniques one at a time. I assume he's capable of mixing and matching these techniques, which is honestly overwhelming in conjunction with everything else in his repertoire. Henry Brachiohiss. Winch Bridal Grapper. Stealth Anything. The only one I'm unsure of is Sparkling Red/Queen as I really don't see the difference between those lasers and the lasers he was already using.
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