- [Narrator] I think that one of the most subtle lessons
in "One Piece", comes to us courtesy
of our crew archeologist.
Which is very simply, that in life,
you need to find a partner who looks at you,
the same way that Robin looks at the subscribe button
for the Grand Line Review.
The pressing of which will grant one
regular "One Piece" content
straight into their YouTube feed.
So, yeah, no wonder she's making the eyes.
Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review,
your source for everything "One Piece"
and more specifically welcome to another "One Piece" battle.
Where we take two characters from this vast series
and pit them together in a hypothetical match
and do our best to determine a winner
as objectively as possible by examining and awarding points
for the following criteria, power, speed, durability,
haki, individual fighting styles, devil fruits,
intelligence, and other miscellaneous notes.
And today we have another Straw Hat-centric battle.
First up featuring our phenomenal navigator Nami,
who has been a mainstay in the series ever since
the mere days of chapter eight.
And is arguably the most valuable Straw Hat,
having seen the crew through the dangers of the Grand Line
and apocalyptic weather conditions of the new world.
So of course knowledge of weather is Nami's specialty,
which can be seen in various incarnations
of her Clima-Tact weapon.
And for this fight, we will be assuming that Nami
is equipped with her latest version of it.
Which is the second model of the sorcery Clima-Tact,
which has the added bonus knowledge of Usopp's pop greens
as well as Frankie's mechanical genius,
making this something of a super weapon.
But going up against Nami is our magnificent archeologist,
Nico Robin, the one time femme fatale and now full-time
powerhouse member of the Straw Hat Pirates.
Who possesses one of what I would call of the most versatile
devil fruits in existence with an incredibly sharp mind
and a grand sense of maturity
and understanding of the world.
Having been thrust into its seedy underbelly
since the tender age of eight years old.
So how are these two going to match up?
Well, let's see because with that out of the way,
let us commence the battle.
And starting this time around, I want to first of all
focus on speed.
Because neither of these combatants are particularly
well-known for a close up brawling style of combat.
And as such, speed and agility
become a much more important factor.
And as I just stated with Robin, she has quite literally,
been on the run from the World Government
for the large majority of her life,
which has made her incredibly adept in the art of running.
But at the same time, Nami has a very similar history,
having adopting the profession of thief at the age of 10
and having been sneaky and swift enough to amass
a fortune of 100,000,000 berries.
So to be honest, I think it's very safe to say
that both Nami and Robin are pretty much capable
of peak human speed, so we do need to look a bit deeper.
And one thing that gives me a bit of pause for thought,
actual words coming from our former marine admiral Kuzan,
who quite blatantly stated that a pre time skip Robin,
could have escaped CB9 if she had so desired.
However, she complied with them
for the sake of the Straw Hats.
Now given that CB9 possesses superhuman speed techniques
such as soru, this is a big feather in Robin's cap.
However, admittedly Kuzan might not have been
referring to speed alone, but more so an overall account
of Robin's abilities.
So what we do need to do is look at some hard facts.
And in this case that turns out to be an SPS segment
where Oda reveals what would happen
if all of the Straw Hats ran a 50 meter race.
And the results of that race were that Nami came in
at seventh place and Robin closely behind her in eighth.
So, look, it is quite tricky but with that one in mind,
I must award the speed category to our cat burglar.
Next up, we're going to move to power,
and initially when we're talking about this in
terms of pure physicality,
Robin would see fairly unstoppable,
especially a post time skip Robin who is capable
of creating gigantic limb structures
and being able to strike an opponent with power
comparable to that of a small giant.
Now there is of course great caveat with this,
in that those limbs have very limited range,
however Robin can spawn them almost anywhere she wants to.
So the strength argument still stands.
On the other hand, in terms of physicality,
Nami is one of the weakest members of the crew.
I mean, arguably Usopp is weaker,
but that's only because Oda has stated,
that he always wants Usopp to be the weakest.
And yes there was a logical argument to be made
that Nami is indeed weaker but that's kind of irrelevant
for this battle.
However, that isn't to say that Nami has no power at all.
In fact, it's very much the opposite.
This might be a somewhat controversial thing to say
but I believe that Nami has access to some of the greatest
and most potent power of any of the Straw Hats.
And in recent days after acquiring Zeus, Nami is capable
of devastating lightning attacks.
Which are comparable to that
of NL's use of the goro goro numi,
one attack from which very notably took Robin
completely out of action in the pre time skip era.
And yes Nami's attacks do take some setup,
but Robin has incredible restrictions on the use
of her most potent strength as well.
And when in doubt, I'm going to go with the power
that was strong enough to leave one of the four emperors
of the sea, lying in a crater, even if it was just briefly.
So that is another tick for Nami, with the power category.
Looking at devil fruits now and yeah I guess
this a pretty obvious win for Robin,
largely due to the fact that Nami does not have
a devil fruit ability.
But not only that, Robin actually happens to possess
one of the craziest powers in the entire series
in my opinion.
That has led her to perform the greatest array of feats
that I think we've seen displayed from any fruit user
perhaps with the exception of Luffie,
and you know what, maybe even Chopper.
But the hana hana no mi gives Robin everything.
She can spawn limbs everywhere that isn't sea stone,
even directly on her opponents.
And if she can't see her opponents,
then she can spawn extra sets of eyes everywhere
and scout for them.
Furthermore, in the post time skip era,
Robin can also make herself a pair of hand wings,
giving her exceptional maneuverability as well as
create entire clones of herself.
But we'll get to how Robin's devil fruit specifically
interacts with Nami within future categories,
but for now, Robin obviously wins the devil fruit category
by default.
Moving on to durability and here we have another close one
because neither Nami nor Robin are particularly
well-known for tanking damage.
In fact they are both much better known for having
minor amounts of damage take them out of action entirely.
However that isn't to say that they don't possess
impressive levels of durability, especially compared
to that of the average human.
But it is more so the result of willpower than physicality,
which, hey, is just as valid.
With Nami, there are two situations that I always
fall back to.
One of which was during the Alabaster arc,
where she stopped Ms. Doublefingers charge,
by smashing her foot onto one of the enemy's spikes,
which still makes me wince in pain to see
or even think about today.
In addition to that, Nami also took a shigun
from Califer during the animsaba arc,
which is effectively like being hit with a bullet,
so this navigator is not to be taken lightly.
As for Robin though, I feel like she has just demonstrated
durability on a far higher level.
Very notably during the skypea arc in her first,
and sadly currently only one on one fight in the series
against Hiyama.
Where she took direct attacks from him
and let's be clear, Hiyama is quite the powerhouse actually.
His physical ability shatter rocks and ruins
like they were already the dust
that they would go on to become.
So Robin being able to take hits like this,
is absolutely huge.
Furthermore in the post time skip realm,
Robin has also had a very impressive showing
during the Diamante fight, where her back was obliterated
by the enemy stardust technique.
And look, as much as Nami does have very impressive
willpower, I just don't see her being able to equal
the durability feats of Robin.
Having briefly brought up skypea though,
Nami did use an impact dial on one occasion
to which she suffered some great damage,
but still managed to recover,
but nonetheless, with all of the available evidence,
this category is still going to Robin.
Also, let's briefly cover haki, if only to say
that neither combatant here as access to any from of haki
that we know of.
So instead of calling this category a tie
as we would usually do with no clear winner,
I am going to nullify it completely.
But I do want to still bring it up though,
because a tiny bit of haki here or there,
would boost Nami or Robin significantly
and in fact, especially Robin.
I mean just imagine if Robin were capable of amataki,
and able to coat her gigantic spawned limbs in it.
That sounds incredibly deadly and quite similarly,
Nami would benefit incredibly from access observation haki,
because it would only perfect her environmental awareness.
Sadly though, neither of these Straw Hats have access
to haki at this point in time.
But I suppose there is always hope.
Intelligence is our next category
and this is arguably where both Nami and Robin excel.
They are easily the smartest members of the Straw Hats,
perhaps, maybe with the exception of Jinbae, very maybe.
But regardless, this is very much incorporated
into their individual fighting styles,
which we have yet to examine,
but in every example of a fight we do have involving
either Nami or Robin, their sheer tactical prowess
becomes a crowning features of the engagement.
Whether that's Nami creating illusions to fool Califer,
or Robin strategically placing her body parts,
to gain the advantage over opponents
who are exceptionally stronger than her.
Both of them are phenomenally intelligent combatants.
Although Nami and Robin do possess very different brands
of intelligence though,
and it leads them to producing very unique tactics.
And my conclusion is that I don't think either one
would have a strict advantage over the other,
when it comes down to thinking.
So this category is going to be very swiftly,
declared a tie.
As we move on to individual fighting styles,
which is where we will examine how all of the above
comes together into a clash.
And you might think that it's very difficult
to deny Robin a win here because, yes,
Nami is technically faster and yes, Nami is significantly
more powerful in theory.
However, Robin's particular style is more than likely
going to be able to overcome both of these features.
Especially because this could entirely possibly be over
in an instant if Robin is able to sprout hands on Nami
and incapacitate her.
That is the great overpowered nature of the hana hana no mi,
against non-superhuman opponents.
However this dynamic is a bit of an interesting one,
because Nami, like Robin,
is also not a close-ranged combatant
and so she depends more on setting up traps
with a Clima-Tact.
Which could prove very, very effective against Robin
if Nami is some how able to remain hidden
and not become vulnerable to the hana hana no mi,
which is not impossible by any means
because Nami is an experienced thief
and fantastic at hiding.
And furthermore, as I stated before, Nami can even
create mirages to misdirect Robin.
Although just as Robin could create clones
to misdirect Nami.
This really would be such a fascinating fight
to see play out.
But I do think it's impossible to predict how these two
differing styles would ultimately interact.
One is not necessarily superior to the other
and it's one of those situations where it is completely
down to who implements a better strategy.
This could be an instant win for Robin
but it could also be a very easy win for Nami.
And as such, this is another tied category.
With miscellaneous features I would very much
like to note that Robin presents a grand weakness
in sprouting her limbs which is that she very much
feels the effect of any damage inflicted on said limbs.
And over and extended period of time,
this is going to heavily spiral out of control
and become a potentially huge detriment for Robin,
who can only take so much pain.
And Nami is quite capable
of inflicting a hell of a lot of pain.
However, Nami also has a glaring weakness,
in that should she be disarmed, or should any huge damage
be inflicted upon the Clima-Tact itself,
then she has zero fighting capabilities left.
Her entire combative career is based on this weapon
and there would be no option but to surrender without it.
Whilst Robin can lose as many generated limbs
as she is willing to accept the damage from.
But in conclusion, it looks like we have our very first tie
in "One Piece" battle history.
Not that this series has been running
for a particularly long time.
However, both combatants have a total of four points,
with Nami succeeding in speed and power,
whilst Robin excels in devil fruit and durability.
With both of them proving amazing in intelligence
and individual fighting style.
And with neither of them able to even compete
for the haki category,
resulting in both of them being disqualified from it.
And some people might feel that after going through
all of that, hey, a tie is a bit of cop out,
but I think this has been a pretty invaluable examination.
I honestly went into this thinking that Robin
was going to completely wreck Nami,
and my research went on to shock me so much,
that a Nami versus Robin fight is hypothetically,
one of the battles I would like to see most
of any of the fights we have covered thus far in the series.
So maybe we can have a rematch down the road.
But it really is anyone's game this time around
and I would like to offer my congratulations
to both Nami and Robin,
for putting on a superb showing for us here today.
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