Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is he actually strong enough
to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]Zoro is one of the most monstrous characters in One Piece - but is
he actually strong enough to beat most of Luffy’s enemies?…provided he could find
them first.
Let’s put it to the test.
Up first is Iron Mace Alvida…and…yeah, I don’t think we even need to talk about
this one.
It’s a wash.
And up next is Helmeppo.
Again, no problem.
If Zoro took out his dad, Axe Hand Morgan…Mr. butt-chin is going to be no problem.
Finally we get to a real threat: Mohji the lion tamer and Richie…the lion.
Just kidding!
Zoro beat Buggy’s second in command, Cabaji, even though he had a terrible stab wound.
I’m pretty sure these guys are going to be no problem for Zoro, just like they weren’t
a problem for Luffy.
But now we do have a real problem on our hands.
Buggy.
Buggy’s Chop-Chop fruit is a hard counter to anything Zoro can do.
And since this fight would be taking place in the East Blue, haki is not a factor.
No matter how much Zoro cuts Buggy up, he would be completely unharmed.
So in this match up, Zoro would actually just be wrecked.
Honestly, depending on whether Buggy has picked up some haki skills, Zoro might not even be
able to take him out *now* in the final saga.
However, Zoro would absolutely stomp Captain Kuro.
Kuro is fast, but those claws are pretty much swords and Zoro isn’t losing a sword battle
to this clown…er…cat.
With Don Krieg, we have to make a special consideration: did Zoro still get obliterated
by Mihawk right before this battle?
And for the sake of discussion, we’re going to say Zoro gets to fight these next antagonists
without being mortally wounded / unconscious.
At full strength, Zoro clears Don Krieg easy.
It doesn’t matter how many toys Krieg has - he’s not standing up to a good slash from
Wado Ichimonji.
It’s a similar story with Arlong - in the story as it is, Zoro didn’t stand a chance
because his wound from Mihawk reopened.
However, even with this wound, he devastated Hachi.
Zoro’s reputation was so renowned that Arlong actually thought the rest of the crew was
working for him.
Not only that, but when he saw how Zoro was fighting even with a wound that should have
killed him, Arlong saw him as enough of a threat that he wanted to dispose of him right
then and there.
At full strength, Arlong wouldn’t stand a chance against Zoro.
However, Captain Smoker is a big logia-shaped problem.
Just like with Buggy, the swords simply are not going to work here.
So just like his captain, Zoro is useless against Smoker at this point.
Once again, the crew’s best bet is to flee from Loguetown as fast as possible.
Now, if the characters were to fight in the current story, Smoker wouldn’t stand a chance
now that Zoro has armament haki and can cut logia devil fruit users.
Now this Marine’s powers would just make him a bigger target.
Mr. 5 and Miss Valentine were a joke.
They were trying their best to fight against Luffy and Zoro while the two crewmates fought
against each other.
At most, they amounted to an annoying distraction.
When it came time to take them out, they were no problem at all - Zoro could take them one
on one like he took out the rest of Whiskey Peak.
Mr. 3, the wax man would actually be a struggle.
In the story as it was written, Zoro did get trapped and immobilized by the wax.
However, he was perfectly willing to cut off his own legs in order to continue the battle.
Luckily, Luffy showed up in time to save Zoro’s legs, but even legless, Zoro would have cut
Mr. 3 down.
Wapol.
Okay, Zoro takes it.
Listen, Wapol was lucky Zoro slept through most of Drum Island.
Besides, since Wapol was threatening Chopper’s home and according to the fandom, Zoro is
pretty much Chopper’s dad, this fight would be personal.
No contest.
Aaaand, we have another logia: Just like Smoker, Crocodile is going to be intangible to Zoro’s
sword strikes.
He may have figured out how to cut steel during his fight with Daz Bones, which does suggest
Zoro tapped into armament haki.
However, Zoro was barely clinging to life by the end of that battle and I’ve got a
feeling he wouldn’t last nearly as long against a warlord at this point in the story.
Bellamy, on the other hand, still gets one shot.
Except instead of getting his lights punched out, the dude would probably just get cut
in half.
As for the God of Lightning, Enel, well I don’t have to think about that one too hard
because Oda already showed us this fight.
All it takes is a few lightning strikes to take out our favorite swordsman.
It’s hard to tell how Zoro’s current armament haki would affect this fight.
With metal swords being able to conduct electricity, would his attacks just hurt him back?
Maybe once Enel finally gets back from the moon, we’ll see a rematch that will tell
us how exactly this clash would play out.
And now for Zoro’s most threatening opponent yet.
Foxy the Silver Fox.
How can Zoro ever hope to contend with Foxy’s slow-slow beam??
Nah, just kidding - Foxy’s getting cut up easy.
The only question is…would we get Afro Zoro?
Sanji would have a field day with how much he’d look like a Marimo.
Kuzan is not getting cut up easy, though.
Zoro at the end of Long Ring Long Land would get flash frozen just like Luffy and Robin.
Hell, current Zoro would have a hard time against Aokiji.
I know this is going to upset some of the power scalers in the community, but I’m
going to go out on a limb and say Zoro is stronger than Usopp.
And unlike Luffy who is filled with regret at having to fight his crew mate, Zoro was
cold as ice when it came to Usopp’s betrayal and wouldn’t hesitate to wipe the floor
with him.
Franky would have a better shot than Usopp - his cyborg body is durable, but as established
in the Daz Bones fight, Zoro has no problem cutting through steel.
During Enies Lobby, Zoro was able to defeat Kaku, who was a much stronger CP9 member than
Blueno.
Therefore, Blueno’s going down no matter how many tekkais he pulls out.
However, it’s doubtful that Zoro could have taken on Rob Lucci during the Water 7 arc.
It took everything Zoro had to defeat Kaku, who’s significantly weaker than Lucci.
Zoro would have put up a very good fight, but in the end probably couldn’t have squeezed
out a W.
Thankfully, Egghead Island showed us just how much Zoro grew throughout the timeskip
and Wano by giving us the matchup we never knew we needed.
Lucci has grown enough to awaken his leopard devil fruit, but Zoro has become the right-hand
man of an Emperor of the Sea, powerful enough to fight the strongest CP0 agents.
Zoro totally could have defeated Gekko Moriah in a one v one, though.
After all, later on when nothing happened, Zoro took on all the pain Luffy had experienced
throughout the battle and was still standing.
It really makes me wonder what it would be like to get Nightmare Zoro, though.
Okay, up next is St. Charloss…and hear me out.
Like obviously, *any* character could beat this Celestial Dragon in a fight.
However, I’m going to give Zoro a loss by technicality here.
After Bonney told him what’s up with trying to get in the way of a Celestial Dragon, he
took the hint.
Unlike his captain, Zoro’s not quite stupid enough to call down a Marine Admiral and the
full force of the World Government on his crew so we’re going to say he won’t get
involved in this “fight” in the first place.
On the island of Amazon Lily, Luffy was thrust into battle with Boa Hancock’s sisters,
Marigold and Sandersonia.
He overcame them by unlocking his conqueror’s haki.
Zoro would overcome them with swords.
However, during the Impel Down prison break, Zoro would not over Magellan with swords.
Much like Luffy, he would get super poisoned.
Also like Luffy, though, he has incredible amounts of willpower, so he could probably
survive thanks to Ivankov and live to fight another day at Marineford.
Where he, like Luffy, would obliterate Koby.
Sorry, Koby - you’ve gotten real strong and everything, but you’re not quite there
yet pre-timeskip.
Garp is not going to take the hit like he did from his grandson, though - Zoro is getting
Galaxy Fisted.
After his two year recovery from that punch, though, he’ll still be ready to one shot
some Pacifistas at the Return to Sabaody.
We also conveniently know how the fight with Hody Jones would go because Zoro already fought
him during the Fishman Island arc.
Granted, he wasn’t on his overdose of Energy Steroids yet, but even with that power up,
Zoro had still defeated him underwater once and could do it again.
He could probably even beat him more effectively than Luffy, since Luffy was a devil fruit
user who had to deal with being in the ocean.
And look out Caesar Clown, because unlike with the other logia fruit users on this list,
Zoro has armament haki now.
It doesn’t matter how many weapons of mass destruction Caesar has because the Wado Ichimonji
is a bigger weapon of mass destruction.
Early in the Dressrosas Coliseum battles, Luffy one shots his future ally Hajrudin.
So would Zoro.
Don Chinjao, with his mastery of Conqueror’s Haki, would be a much tougher battle.
Since we don’t see Zoro use conqueror’s haki until Wano, it’s uncertain when he
unlocked this ability.
However, I’m going to give Zoro the victory.
I mean, if he beat Pica, I’m pretty sure he can beat a pointy old man.
Zoro would put up a solid fight against Donquixote Doflamingo.
After all, even Sanji was strong enough during Dressrosa to earn a compliment from the most
flamboyant Shichibukai.
Sanji wasn’t enough to make Doflamingo sweat, but the warlord did acknowledge his strength.
If he thinks Sanji’s strong, then he’d definitely be impressed with Zoro’s fighting
ability.
However, it took Gear 4 Luffy to be able to overcome this monster.
Sadly, Zoro isn’t taking out Doflamingo at this stage.
If Zoro wasn’t even able to cut up the strings that made up the birdcage, I don’t think
he has a chance against the warlord’s complete devil fruit mastery, especially his awakening.
What about current Zoro, though?
Post-Wano Zoro would be a whole different story.
With the insane power of Enma, not only would Zoro slice right through the bird cage like
butter, he would slice right through Doflamingo himself.
Sure, Doflamingo has a lot of practice at stitching himself back together with this
string-string fruit, but he’s gonna have to do it a whole lot faster if he wants to
avoid getting diced by Zoro’s advanced conqueror’s haki.
At the end of Dressrosa, Luffy also clashed briefly with Fujitora.
While Fujitora is a likely candidate for a late game Zoro opponent, Dressrosa Zoro would
put up a good fight but would be ultimately defeated if they finished the battle.
We definitely want to see this match up now, though.
Now that Luffy is a Yonkou and the Straw Hats are more directly fighting against the World
Government, this is a fight that most fans definitely want to see.
Anime fans are simple creatures.
We simply love it when guys fight with swords…and meteors…
Zoro having trouble with Doflamingo also doesn’t bode well for him going up against Big Mom’s
kids.
Luffy was only able to defeat Cracker by eating his way through the biscuits with his elastic
stomach.
Zoro would not have this same advantage.
He can eat - but not like Luffy.
It’s just a question of whether he’d be able to make it through Cracker’s super
solid biscuit defenses.
Now that he has Enma, he could definitely cut through, but at the time of Whole Cake
Island, I’m not sure he’d be able to take out Cracker.
And Zoro at during Whole Cake Island wouldn’t have had future sight, either.
Charlotte Katakuri is a crazy strong character who ended up essentially drawing his match
with Luffy as he gained a respect for the Straw Hat captain.
Now that Zoro’s been able to defeat King, it’s likely that he’d be able to defeat
the other top Yonkou Commander as well.
However, I think Katakuri’s abilities would prove more of a challenge for Zoro to overcome.
King depended on using his ultra durable Lunarian skin to tank Zoro’s attacks.
However, Katakuri used a combination of future sight predictions and moving his malleable
mochi body out of the way of attacks to avoid Luffy’s punches.
Due to how sticky Katakuri’s mochi is, it’s also possible that he could manage to disarm
Zoro by having his swords stick in his mochi.
This is a fight that would be great to see someday, but now that Katakuri will likely
be a Straw Hat ally, it’s definitely unlikely that these two will ever clash.
However, now that Zoro has awakened advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to scar the
ultra-durable Kaidou, Zoro could probably even cut through Katakuri’s sticky mochi.
The real question is whether he’d be fast enough to beat Katakuri’s future sight.
In this hypothetical battle of the Yonkou first mates, though, we’d have to give it
to current Zoro.
Tanking the combined hits from Big Mom and Kaidou means he’d be able to hold his own
against any hit Katakuri could deliver while waiting for his opening to cut down the Mochi
Man.
On Wano, though, things get a little better.
Kaidou’s fodder underlings Urashima and Holdem would be easily defeated, just as they
were by Luffy.
And now that he has a new power up in Enma, Zoro’s become significantly stronger.
He would be able to defeat Ulti since he was able to defeat King, the strongest of the
Flying Six.
However, we saw how well Zoro does against the two former Yonkou, Big Mom and Kaidou
during Roof Piece.
Sadly, these absolute units are just too much for Zoro at this point.
However, he did tap into advanced conqueror’s haki and was able to wound Kaidou.
That’s the most he was able to do during the Battle of Onigashima, but what about Zoro
at the end of the series.
After all, there are plenty of Zoro Kills Kaidou or ZKK One Piece theorists who were
devastated that our favorite swordsman did not land the finishing blow.
By the end of the series, Zoro will be a second-in-command worthy of the Pirate King, strong enough to
even give monsters like Kaidou and Big Mom a hard time.
After all, as a distant descendant of Ryuma, dragon slaying is in Zoro’s blood.
When Oda revealed in an SBS that Zoro is in fact a descendant from Wano and therefore
is related to the legendary samurai whose zombie he fought on Thriller Bark, it all
but confirms that it’s Zoro’s destiny to have the power to defeat dragons like Kaidou.
After all, Ryuma was the star of Oda’s pre-One Piece one shot manga, Wanted, in which the
samurai slays a monstrous dragon.
Oda’s no stranger to bringing back characters we long suspected were dead, so if Kaidou
ever crawls up out of that volcano while Luffy’s busy with Imu, it’ll be up to Zoro to take
him out.
If Kaidou ever returns to face Zoro, he’ll be ready, having mastered the power of Enma
and perhaps even having created a black blade of his very own.
By the end of the series, it only makes sense for the pirate king’s right hand to be yonkou
level.
And he’d better be strong enough to do so, because it’s only a matter of time before
he goes head to head with Dracule Mihawk: the world’s greatest swordsman.
Mihawk is such a formidable enemy that even the insanely powerful Zoro is going to need
a power boost before he’s able to take on his mentor.
Will he get a new sword even stronger than Enma?
Will he turn the Wado Ichimonji into a black blade?
Or will Oda surprise us all by giving our favorite green haired swordsman the powers
of a devil fruit?
What devil fruit power up could possibly be the perfect fit for Zoro?
Well, you’re in luck because you can find out in this video: [Points to What if Zoro
ate a devil fruit?]