Discussion Zoro Discussion Thread

[King Moe]

For the second year in the row, the number one place goes to the great swordsman with 9.500+ votes!
Worldwide, Zoro is likely the most popular One Piece character.

You do realize that is not the official polling of magazine, right? Plus You missed last first ones where more people voted on and Luffy won them. Your really trolling to much to justify your claims if your using solo Youtube Channel that community is all over that.

 

[nik87]

You do realize that is not the official polling of magazine, right? Plus You missed last first ones where more people voted on and Luffy won them. Your really trolling to much to justify your claims if your using solo Youtube Channel that community is all over that.

People voting anywhere is as official as it gets. Zoro wins everywhere except maybe in Japan but that doesnt change that worldwide Zoro is most popular.

 

[Nie Li]

People voting anywhere is as official as it gets. Zoro wins everywhere except maybe in Japan but that doesnt change that worldwide Zoro is most popular.

And even in the official japanese polls where Luffy ranks 1st, Zoro is number 2 right behind him every single time (except one time, where Zoro was 3rd and Law was 2nd, in the middle of the Dressrosa arc).

I mean, being the most popular character doesn't mean it's the best character (that's subjective and each's person's favorite is their best character), but Zoro is definitely close to being the most popular OP character in Japan and he might just as well be the most popular world-wide, although I don't think there is that big of a margin between some of these characters' popularity.

 

[afromarco005]

For the second year in the row, the number one place goes to the great swordsman with 9.500+ votes!
Worldwide, Zoro is likely the most popular One Piece character.

I was watching this earlier too! Congrats to our boy!

Zoro is always super popular I rember back in WCI where he didnt appear once he was still in the top voted characters.

 

[nik87]

Zoro is always super popular I rember back in WCI where he didnt appear once he was still in the top voted characters.

Yeah, he kept rank 2 and was behind Luffy as much as when he is present in an arc. Too stronk!

 

[Brandish μ]

When I see how popular Zoro is I think of the collective thirst to see some feats from him. It's an itch I haven't been able to scratch since FI.

 

[King Moe]

I remember Zoro getting surpassed a few times by others than just Luffy, but obviously we can always see him in Top 10 or Top 5 category in OP as popularity for Strawhats are always up there for them all.

 

[Pirate Queen]

I remember Zoro getting surpassed a few times by others than just Luffy, but obviously we can always see him in Top 10 or Top 5 category in OP as popularity for Strawhats are always up there for them all.

Zoro has only ever been surpassed by Law once... and that was an official international poll I believe. He's consistently #2.

Following Rogersbase for a number of years, his fans are largely Zoro fans so I'm not suprised.

How the fuck is Yamato so high? 5 chapters in and she was polled as one of THEE best character? Nonsense

 

[King Moe]

Zoro has only ever been surpassed by Law once... and that was an official international poll I believe. He's consistently #2.

Following Rogersbase for a number of years, his fans are largely Zoro fans so I'm not suprised.

How the fuck is Yamato so high? 5 chapters in and she was polled as one of THEE best character? Nonsense

More than one, but your right he usually in 2nd place, so not saying he never was. Just that in official poll is much different compare to Rogersbase one.

What about Ulti who is recent as wall and got in in her ranking. Again that's why not to take it seriously with it compare to Official Polls and plus this isn't even all fans who watch OP who voted on it, so we shouldn't' be discussing much on this poll on popularity XD.

 

[Nie Li]

More than one, but your right he usually in 2nd place, so not saying he never was. Just that in official poll is much different compare to Rogersbase one.

What about Ulti who is recent as wall and got in in her ranking. Again that's why not to take it seriously with it compare to Official Polls and plus this isn't even all fans who watch OP who voted on it, so we shouldn't' be discussing much on this poll on popularity XD.

Only once in the six official popularity polls throughout the manga. Otherwise he's always a solid 2nd.

Popularity Polls

Note: The table is sortable, click on the arrows in the header cell to sort the results. This is the first "Your Favorite Attack" poll. The results were published on Volumes 39 and 40.

onepiece.fandom.com

 

[Grandmaster Woro]

I remember Zoro getting surpassed a few times by others than just Luffy, but obviously we can always see him in Top 10 or Top 5 category in OP as popularity for Strawhats are always up there for them all.

doubt it. Zoro still managed to be in second rank even when he's absent during the whole WCI arc
oda definitely prepares something for zoro in the onigashima raid. And the following arc after this will be a road to his final fight to become WSM.
I won't even be surprised if zoro becomes the first rank after this arc

 

[kkck]

I am still thinking zoro will fight the samurai during the raid. it makes far more sense than kaido's crew in general. it play's to zoro's wano ancestry and it fits into his theme of fighting swordsmen. Add to that, among kaido's executives none seems to be a proper swordsman, at least not a dedicated one. A few executives so far have swords or bladed weapons (jack and king) though none evidences a commitment to swordsmanship per say. It'd almost be silly if zoro was in wano and he didn't get to fight a single samurai, specially if he is locked in in an island with 5000 of them.

 

[Nie Li]

I am still thinking zoro will fight the samurai during the raid. it makes far more sense than kaido's crew in general. it play's to zoro's wano ancestry and it fits into his theme of fighting swordsmen. Add to that, among kaido's executives none seems to be a proper swordsman, at least not a dedicated one. A few executives so far have swords or bladed weapons (jack and king) though none evidences a commitment to swordsmanship per say. It'd almost be silly if zoro was in wano and he didn't get to fight a single samurai, specially if he is locked in in an island with 5000 of them.

I don't mind Zoro taking out the samurai but for that to be significant those samurais need to be hyped a little bit. We have been shown nothing of them and that makes them seem weaker than the Scabbards in my mind. So at least we should get a showing of strength from at least the boss of the samurai. Have him lowdiff a scabbard or anything, or even if Zoro vs him will make sense, it will feel void.

 

[Pirate Queen]

I wouldn't have minded a Character Box noting:

"Wano's Strongest Swordsman."

We've gotten nothing tho

 

[kkck]

I don't mind Zoro taking out the samurai but for that to be significant, those samurais need to be hyped a little bit. We have been shown nothing of them and that makes them seem weaker than the Scabbards in my mind. So at least we should get a showing of strength from at least the boss of the samurai. Have him lowdiff a scabbard or anything, or even if Zoro vs him will make sense, it will feel void.

I see two scenarios:

1.- mimawarigumi leader hotei turns out to be a monster himself and zoro ends up fighting him.

2.- Zoro ends up taking out the entirety of the samurai force by himself. This sounds a tad extreme if the mimawarigumi is supposed to be a powerful military force by new world standards though.

I do agree in that we need something to hype the samurai for this to be interesting. The fight itself could do that.... say, hotei fights evenly with zoro, but just that alone wouldn't give us any perspective regarding how the samurai compare to other forces around.

Still, at the moment this just makes more sense than zoro taking out any of kaido's executives...

 

[Nie Li]

I see two scenarios:

1.- mimawarigumi leader hotei turns out to be a monster himself and zoro ends up fighting him.

2.- Zoro ends up taking out the entirety of the samurai force by himself. This sounds a tad extreme if the mimawarigumi is supposed to be a powerful military force by new world standards though.

I do agree in that we need something to hype the samurai for this to be interesting. The fight itself could do that.... say, hotei fights evenly with zoro, but just that alone wouldn't give us any perspective regarding how the samurai compare to other forces around.

Still, at the moment this just makes more sense than zoro taking out any of kaido's executives...

The problem I see with those samurais having no additional hype other than their fight with Zoro alone is that certain people (King Moe) wouldn't use the fight to hype Zoro and instead of saying "What an awesome fight!" they'll say "If Zoro beat those means that they're very weak". They'll seem like Zoro taking fodder out.

But if we get at least a minimum proof of the samurai leader being a beast I'd be okay with him/them being Zoro's opponent for the arc.

 

[kkck]

The problem I see with those samurais having no additional hype other than their fight with Zoro alone is that certain people (King Moe) wouldn't use the fight to hype Zoro and instead of saying "What an awesome fight!" they'll say "If Zoro beat those means that they're very weak". They'll seem like Zoro taking fodder out.

But if we get at least a minimum proof of the samurai leader being a beast I'd be okay with him/them being Zoro's opponent for the arc.

It may well be the case... It's not like oda has been doing the strawhats any favors after the timeskip. Zoro has one decent fight since the timeskip, sanji has none... Franky has one fight against sr pink... brook has no fights basically, ussop has only a win against a fishman and so on. And realisitically speaking, it doesn't look like oda is building up to any fight with the strawhats against kaido's executives. I suppose that oda is not even done introducing the war's players though. so far most of big mom's kids are still MIA, perospero barely returned alongside marco and there is a good chance that the marines will show up soon. Maybe 5 volumes from now when oda is done setting up the stage we will have a glimpse of what the strawhat's role in this will be.

 

[afromarco005]

I wouldn't have minded a Character Box noting:

"Wano's Strongest Swordsman."

We've gotten nothing tho

True. And it's kindda wierd as even Akainu was hyping the strenght of Wano samurai...

Oh well zoro will fight gifters or Orochi more anyway so it doesnt matter

 

[nik87]

Spoiler

Lol zorro is not yet on YC level even if he have enma no way he can beat kaido please stop dellusion. Oda say he didn't Want any someone in straw hats outshine luffy maybe zorro can kill queen or anyone. Luffy is the protagonist who only to defeat the boss

You are lagging behind a lot, I suspect Zoro is already a top tier, YC are small fry for Zoro.
Enma does nothing for him, stop the delusions lol.
Nobody can beat Kaido in 1vs1, I didnt say Zoro would do it in 1vs1 either.

Kaido stopped being 1vs1 the moment Scabbards sticked their swords inside him.
Queen is a joke, Zoro has no business with jokes.
The protagonist Luffy couldnt scratch Kaido, not even as much as Scabbards and he still has nothing to kill Kaido.
That's why he got Zoro in his crew, to do things which he cant.

 

[kkck]

True. And it's kindda wierd as even Akainu was hyping the strenght of Wano samurai...

Oh well zoro will fight gifters or Orochi more anyway so it doesnt matter

Akainu referred to wano's samurai as an unknown. For the most par there hasn't been official contact between the marines and wano samurai in potentially hundreds of years... It doesn't look like wano has THAT powerful an army though. Strong by individual nation standards apparently but not so much that they can face a yonko's crew. At least going by how kaido threatened them considering that 5k mimawarigumi and 5k oniwabanshu were at onigashima and kaido could have presumably ended them.