- [Liam] Kaido.
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Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review,
your source for everything One Piece,
and as many of you know, on this channel,
we recently covered CBR's list of 10 characters
who can beat Kaido.
We mocked, we laughed,
and then we promptly moved on with our lives.
And just for some people who didn't like the tone
of that video, look, I get it.
It's not the wonderful joy of One Piece type of thing
that I would usually represent,
but at the same time,
it's not like I stumbled upon some kid's blog post
and just tore it apart.
With over three million subscribers,
CBR is a gigantic corporate entity designed
to exploit your love of popular culture
for a purely profit-driven motive,
and they make well over a million dollars a year
in YouTube revenue alone, so with that in mind,
yes, we can and should hold them
to excruciatingly high standards
when it comes to the articles that they disseminate.
But I'm afraid it simply cannot end there though,
because it is one thing to sit back
in your comfortable chair behind a computer screen
and demean someone else's efforts,
but if you are not capable of taking on the task yourself,
then you probably shouldn't have opened your mouth
to begin with.
So that's what today is all about,
because I'm going to take their topic
and present you all with a list of characters
who can actually beat Kaido.
And then once I've presented my list,
you are all free to scrutinize
and tear me apart like I did with CBR,
because that is the circle of life.
Oh, it's beautiful.
But this list has actually been
extraordinarily tricky to compose
because Kaido is a presence deliberately designed
to evoke the pinnacle of raw strength in this world,
which goes all the way back to his introduction
where the narrator stated,
"In a one-on-one fight, always bet on Kaido."
Land, sea, and air, of every living thing in this world,
this pirate is said to be the strongest creature alive,
so we do have our work cut out for us here,
and it gets even worse, particularly when we consider
that even Kaido cannot defeat Kaido.
I mean, we've seen him try.
He failed.
So it's worrying when the world's strongest living thing
cannot defeat the world's strongest living thing.
And I'm not about to make it any easier either
because I have some extra restrictions to impose.
Firstly, we will only be examining living characters.
So that means no Roger, no Whitebeard, no Oden,
and so on and so forth.
Secondly, no time travel,
by which I mean saying stuff like,
well, Garp in his prime could certainly defeat Kaido.
I'm just not interested in going down that rabbit hole.
Too much speculation.
Speaking of, my third foolishly self-imposed rule
is going to be no pointless speculation,
by which I mean offering up characters
who have never shown a single tangible piece
of evidence to use,
and a great example of a character like that would be Im,
The Five Elder Stars, Ryokugyu,
and most importantly, Monkey D. Dragon.
I'm more than happy to reassess in the future
when characters like this do kick into gear,
but for now, to me, they're just not worth the time.
And my final restriction is
that I will not be considering characters
for meta-narrative reasons,
and this pretty much just applies to Luffy.
I wholeheartedly believe
that we will eventually somehow see him defeat Kaido
because that is what the story is going to call for,
but that will not be used as a reason
to place him here today.
Now the big question:
Why am I doing all of this?
Well, it's because when I see a statement like,
10 characters who can beat Kaido,
the impression it gives me is one of present tense
and in-world legitimacy.
It says to me that there are people
in this world right here and now that can overcome Kaido
for an at least semi-logical and demonstrable reason,
and as such, I feel kind of cheated
when I see these loopholes used like Garp from the past
or Luffy because he's the main character.
I think stuff like that is, once again,
just a waste of time, which isn't to say
that what I'm doing right now isn't also a waste of time.
It's just a more rigidly structured waste of time,
like most of my videos really.
Due to that structure though,
I've already encountered a bit of a problem,
which is that it is simply not possible
to come up with 10 living modern-day characters
who can defeat Kaido, and that will happen
when you are the strongest living thing in the world.
However, I have come up with a mighty six,
so we are going to alter the deal
and turn this video into six characters
who can beat Kaido.
And I probably haven't titled the video that
because six is just not as satisfying of a number as 10 is,
and if you don't like that,
then please do express your displeasure
by hitting the subscribe button for the Grand Line Review.
And if I see a sudden surge in subscribers,
then I'll get the message pretty quickly.
But who are these six mystery figures,
and how are each and every single one of them capable
of overcoming the strongest living thing in the world?
Well, we're going start with the obvious one,
which is Big Mom.
So this is not a surprise to anyone.
Charlotte Linlin has been consistently portrayed
as quite probably the only living thing in this world
that can equal a force like Kaido.
I mean, if I had to pit the two against each other,
I feel like I would take the narrator's advice
and bet on Kaido, primarily because he's more
or less immune to Linlin's Devil Fruit,
while she is certainly not immune to his powers.
But from everything that has been demonstrated,
there is no clear winner here,
and it would take a mighty, mighty battle
to settle things between these two,
one that Kaido may very well lose.
So Charlotte Linlin is the first of our six characters.
Next up, we're going to cover another,
some may say, obvious one, which is Shanks.
So this is a bit weird because I discounted Shanks
when talking about CBR's list, but that was mainly
because the writer didn't make an actual argument
for him being there.
But the thing is,
Shanks has actually long since displayed one
of the biggest tangible cues of power within the series
with the very famous sky-splitting clash with Whitebeard.
This is something of a trademark Emperor ability,
which does immediately plunk him up there
as someone who can possibly beat Kaido,
because he has demonstrated the pinnacle of strength,
even if it was on a mere single occasion.
And while I accept that a lot of this is
that filthy word, speculation,
it's not pointless speculation
because we do have a point
of reference for Shanks' abilities,
whereas we don't even have that with characters like Dragon.
Anything to do with Dragon is 100% speculation,
while someone like Shanks
would be more like 50% speculation,
because that is the power of evidence.
And fun fact, a lack of evidence is
also why Mihawk will not be on this list,
because, yes, we do know
that he was once a dueling partner of Shanks,
but that was in the past,
and we have no idea whatsoever
how he stacks up to Shanks right now,
so using that point as a reason
why Mihawk could overcome Kaido is highly dubious at best.
I'm not denying that Mihawk could be that powerful.
I mean, there's every chance
that he's even stronger than Shanks,
but at this point, all we have to go by is his examples
of taking out scrubs, which is not quite good enough.
Shanks is good enough though,
and that is why he will be the second
of our band of six Kaido Konquerers,
and I want you all to know that when I say that,
I'm spelling conquerors with a K
because I like alliteration.
But Shanks and Big Mom are the obvious ones,
and before I move on to the other four characters
who can defeat Kaido, I'm going to flag
that some of you probably won't like these answers,
primarily because none of what I'm about to say has roots
in overcoming Kaido via power.
I mean, that's just sort of the reality
of being the strongest living thing.
There aren't all that many people
who are going to be able to defeat you
in that particular game.
However, that does not mean that Kaido cannot be beaten
in other more creative ways,
and by creative, I mean more creative
than like a punch in the face.
And with that in mind, we now land on Sugar,
the wielder of easily one
of the most overpowered Devil Fruits in existence.
The Hobi Hobi no Mi allows Sugar
to turn any living thing into a toy simply by touching them.
That is literally the only condition Sugar needs
to activate instant defeat upon anybody.
Although to be fair, that's not entirely true.
Sugar does need to form a contract
with the toy victim afterwards,
which, if she forgets to do so, will be bad,
like what happened with Kyros for example,
and in that case, even a toy form
of Kaido will certainly destroy
the very otherwise-fragile Sugar,
but that is still not at all a difficult thing to accomplish
because making a contract
just involves Sugar paying attention
and having a conscious thought.
That's it.
That is all it takes, and an Emperor is gone and forgotten.
And I'm sure there are many people
who don't like the Sugar argument
because it would never happen in One Piece, which,
I agree, it never would because it's a story
and that would not be a fantastic turn of events,
you know, for one of the most prominent antagonists
of 23 years of storytelling to be dismissed in this way.
But other than the fact that One Piece is a story,
which is a factor I've already said I'll be dismissing,
there is no reason why this cannot happen.
Kaido is arrogant, not overly cautious,
and susceptible to any attack at any time.
It's just that his own power makes 99.9%
of those possible attacks completely meaningless,
not Sugar's though.
And I should say that there is a big difference
between the Sugar argument and other similar fruit powers.
Another one that would come to mind
would be Gecko Moria's Devil Fruit, the Kage Kage no Mi,
because in theory, he just needs to steal your shadow,
and then if you are left in the sun,
well, you die eventually.
It's not instant, but it's pretty damn quick.
It's not quite as simple as that though,
because Moria's shadow-stealing condition
is much more finicky than a simple touch,
much more conspicuous as well,
and even once the shadow is gone,
that still leaves Kaido entirely free to attack Moria
and take his shadow back,
because even if he is in the sun,
he does still have a bit of time,
and a bit of time is far too much time.
Meanwhile, Sugar is one and done.
There is no chance for Kaido to retaliate whatsoever,
and that is why Sugar is the third of our six characters
who can beat Kaido.
And we're going to continue along a similar train of thought
with our next example being Jewelry Bonney.
Bonney has a startlingly easy win condition
in any given matchup,
which is that she can alter the ages of herself and others,
and in this case, we are much more concerned
with the idea of others.
And from here, Bonney has two options.
She can either de-age Kaido
back down to a young dragonling,
or she can rapidly age him to the status
of decrepit old beast,
either option being capable of incapacitating anybody,
even the strongest creature in the world.
I suppose the only real tricky part is
that Bonney needs to be sure
that she hits that age of incapacitation,
because it won't do her a whole lot of good
to make Kaido look like an old man thing
if he can still hit hard.
But what very much works in Bonney's favor,
even more so than Sugar actually,
is that Bonney has some decent skills
in the area of speed and stealth,
making it much more likely,
in fact, I would say almost a given,
for her to make physical contact with Kaido.
And to be clear, it was already pretty damn likely
for Sugar to be able to do the same thing,
so I don't think there's any denying
that Jewelry Bonney can beat Kaido.
And just for some expansion on this idea
of weird, left-field Devil Fruit powers,
there are other examples of these
that I'm sure will be brought up in discussion,
one of which would be Perona's Horo Horo no Mi,
which would be extraordinarily effective
against most characters, but not so much Kaido.
He rather unfortunately has the Usopp benefit
of being overly negative in his standard state of being.
And someone else who might be brought up
would be Boa Hancock because her Mero Mero no Mi
will instantly decimate most men,
in fact, most people in general.
And Kaido hasn't exactly been shown as,
you know, being adverse to some lady company,
so he may be susceptible to it, but he also may not.
It's a pretty big question mark,
which is why I'm not including Hancock.
I'm certainly including Bonney though,
and she makes up the fourth of our spectacular six,
a predominantly female six as of right now,
and we're going to continue that trend
with one of the most unlikely characters imaginable
being Princess Shirahoshi.
So this mermaid gets heavily, heavily underestimated
by most fans, including myself,
because it's very easy to forget
that she is no mere mermaid,
and Shirahoshi is in fact the ancient weapon Poseidon,
a weapon which has been said to possess the capabilities
of destroying entire islands with ease.
However, such hearsay has no place here.
Thankfully though, we have seen this weapon in action
through the ability to summon a legion
of the biggest boss Sea Kings
we have ever seen in the series,
powerful enough to carry the Noah,
a construct almost as big as Fish-Man Island itself.
In fact, many of these individual Sea Kings
dwarf Fish-Man Island in comparison,
which is important to mention because it also means
that Shirahoshi would be effective
on any island within this world,
because islands are absolutely meaningless
in the face of these Sea Kings.
So what we would have here is essentially
a much larger-scale Jack versus Zunisha situation.
Kaido is the strongest creature in the world,
but this is an ancient weapon,
and if Poseidon's full wrath was focused on Kaido,
he is going to be defeated,
and that is why Shirahoshi is joining this merry band,
who I've now noticed all have primarily pink or red hair,
which (chuckles) is kind of fun, isn't it?
In fact, maybe in general we should just be much more wary
of pink-head characters than we currently are,
and you know what?
In fact, for anybody who's still concerned
about Sugar not being able to defeat Kaido,
well, bam, look at that.
Pink-head Sugar, absolutely unstoppable.
But our sixth and final character who can beat Kaido
is going to be our fan-favorite Trafalgar Law,
and this is because there is no reason whatsoever
why Law should not be able to defeat
almost any other character in the series.
His Devil Fruit is beyond broken,
he can chop people up, steal their hearts, body-swap them,
and leave them in any number of positions at his mercy,
and because of that factor,
he's a very difficult character to manage.
I still, quite frankly, don't see
why he could not have beaten Doflamingo and Dressrosa.
It's just one of those things
where Oda had to ignore this incredibly ridiculous power
in favor of having Luffy save the day.
There really is nothing
that would be able to stop Law beyond Law himself.
I mean, his rooms do have a range,
but that range is massive,
like the size of an entire mountain sort of massive.
The rooms don't get blocked by anything physical,
and even fully coated Armament Haki
is somehow incapable of preventing Law
from slicing up room-based opponents.
All he has to do is get within the range
of a mountain's worth of space between him and Kaido,
and the Emperor is done.
Of course, that's never going to happen
because fictional story reasons,
but that does not change the fact
that Law can defeat Kaido
and quite probably anyone else in the series.
And there have it,
six characters who are capable of taking down the Emperor,
many of whom are not the most prominent characters
within the series, but that is their core advantage.
Kaido more than likely cannot be overcome
via the avenue of power,
which makes Kaido almost the worst possible matchup
for traditionally strong individuals like, say, Sakazuki,
because Kaido is that path's pinnacle.
So generally it will take the direct equal
to that sort of strength,
an unexpected and frankly outrageous Devil Fruit power,
or a living ancient weapon to bring this beast down.
So that's my list of six characters.
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