Key foods
- Some One Piece characters should never eat Devil Fruits due to their established identities, skills, and weaknesses.
- Characters like Bepo, Dracule Mihawk, and Monkey D. Garp have unique powers and abilities that are destroyed by consuming a Devil Fruit.
- Eating a Devil Fruit weakens the character development, fighting style, and effectiveness of characters like Kobe, Shanks, and Franky.
devil fruit The power system is signature each pieceAnd anyone who eats one of them automatically gains a strange but useful superpower. However, these mysterious fruits are extremely rare, and not every major character in the series has had the opportunity to eat one. And some of them should never do it.
Some key figures in each piece The world has built their entire identity around their mastery of another power system, like Haki or Rukoshiki, and so eating a Devil Fruit goes against their established character. In addition, they also give their users a debilitating weakness to water, which can be a huge detriment in this vast semi-aquatic world. The following characters should never consume one of these exotic fruits.
8 Bepo
This weasel has a great advantage over its brothers
- First appearance: Chapter 498 (Manga) Episode 392 (Anime)
Mink Clan members have two effective weapons in their arsenal: Electro ability and Solong shapeshifting, so most of them don't need to consume Devil Fruit to fight their opponents. However, Solong can be quite unreliable as it only activates when there is a full moon in the night sky. But a certain mink, Bepodoes not have this problem
Thanks to Tony Tony Chopper, Bepo has access to a potion that can activate his Solong form regardless of the position of the moon. This transformation is very effective when combined with his solid combat skills, not to mention allowing Bepo to save his captain Trafalgar Law by swimming across the sea. So a devil fruit just nullifies all of that.
7 Dracul Mihawk
What would it take to be the strongest swordsman?
- First appearance: Chapter 49 (Manga) Episode 23 (Anime)
Dracul Mihawk Established as the “strongest swordsman” in the whole each piece world since the first story arcs of this series. He certainly lived up to this prestigious title as his swordsmanship skills are second to none as he can cut through battleships or large icebergs with no problem.
Mihawk can also use Haki, but unlike Shanks and other swordsmen of similar skill level, he is not dependent on it when fighting. He obviously worked hard to get there, so eating a devil fruit would completely undermine his efforts and make his title of strongest swordsman lose its meaning. It looks like cheating.
6 Monkey D. Garp
He became the champion of the musketeers without one
- First appearance: Chapter 92 (Manga) Episode 68 (Anime)
There is no doubt that Monkey D. Garp One of the strongest figures in each piece Since he defeated the infamous Rocks D. Xebec (with the help of Gol D. Roger) and earned the title “Marine Champion”. After that, he continued to arrest dangerous pirates and even began to train younger marines, such as Kobi and Holmpo.
Garp is an absolute beast in battle with a combination of incredible physical strength, Rokushiki techniques, and three types of Haki, and has managed to pull off some impressive feats, such as his powerful Galaxy Impact, which completely obliterated most Hachinosu. Garp has come this far without even thinking about eating a Devil Fruit, so he certainly doesn't need one now.
5 Kobe
On the contrary, it will inspire his character development
- First appearance: Chapter 2 (Manga) Episode 1 (Anime)
No character in each piece Grown as much as Kobe: He grew from a weak kid who wanted to join the marines to a heroic sea captain who is so strong that he can even destroy part of an island with the influence of his powerful honesty. It is immediately clear that Kobi is favored by Garp and that he has a similar fighting style to his master.
What is particularly important about Kobe is that he has also worked very hard to get to where he is today, and eating the devil fruit will lessen the effect of his character growth and development. Of course, Devil Fruit users still have to put a lot of effort into their fighting and training (Monkey D. Luffy being a prime example), but Kobe won't benefit from eating it at this point.
4 stem
He is currently one of the most skilled Haki users in the series
- First appearance: Chapter 1 (Manga) Episode 4 (Anime)
“red hair” stem The only emperor in each piece Without any Devil Fruit powers, and he would never have been able to gain and keep this title if it wasn't for his impeccable hockey skills, which have always been so powerful that even Whitebeard himself They know. All this is expected from someone who trained under Gol de Roger himself.
After Luffy faced so many threatening enemies with crazy Devil Fruit powers like Big Mom or Kaido, Shanks' main role in the story is now to prove how far a Haki master can go. His impressive victories over Ryokugyo and Kidd showed that he has complete mastery over all three types, and there is arguably no one else in the world who is as efficient at using hockey as he is. All of this means that Shanks not only shouldn't eat a Devil Fruit, it was practically written that he never needed one.
3 Frankie
He already has his advanced cyborg technology
- First appearance: Chapter 329 (Manga) Episode 233 (Anime)
When it comes to the Straw Hat Pirates, Eiichiro Oda has managed to strike a nearly perfect balance, as only 4 out of 10 of the crew have eaten a Devil Fruit. And while there's an argument to be made for some of them eventually eating one, there are others who should never do so. Frankie It is one of the most definitive examples.
Frankie's purpose as a character is to introduce cyborgs to the story and show what a smart and talented engineer can achieve with advanced technology. He already has a flexible metal body, multiple weapons, and can even pilot a giant machine, so he wouldn't benefit from a Devil Fruit anyway. Oddly enough, Franky is one of the few characters who has stated that he doesn't want to eat the Devil Fruit since Luffy offered him the Mera Mera no Mi during the Dressrosa arc, but he turned it down because he didn't want it. Lose the fruit. swimming ability
2 Vinsmoke Sanji
He is a skilled swimmer with superhuman abilities
- first appearance: Chapter 43 (Manga) Episode 20 (Anime)
It has been proven that Sanjay One of the best swimmers among the Straw Hat Pirates, he was often the first member of the crew to jump in to save Luffy or Chopper from drowning. It would be a shame if he ate a Devil Fruit because it would take away one of his most useful abilities.
Not to mention that the powers of a Devil Fruit don't even give him the upper hand in battle, as Sanji can perform many impressive techniques without one: he was already a skilled martial artist and could even bind his legs. On fire with his deadly Diable Jiambe. Additionally, he has recently awakened genetic changes in his body that have made him even faster, stronger, and more resilient.
1 Jinbe
It literally destroys his entire personality and fighting style
- first appearance: Chapter 528 (Manga) Episode 430 (Anime)
Fish-Men and Merfolk are all about their innate amphibious abilities and thus, any member of these races would be deterred by the prospect of eating a Devil Fruit, as proven by only 2 examples in the series, Vander Decken IX and Jack. Jinbe No exception, as he is inevitably the most skilled swimmer of the Straw Hat Pirates. He is also the helmsman of the crew, which means his position always puts him too close to the ocean water to be a major weakness.
In addition, Jinbe is also a master of Fish-Man Karate and Fish-Man Jujutsu, two unique martial arts that rely on his abilities to swim and manipulate water. Therefore, this weakness in water completely nullified the efficient fighting style he had been using for years. It would be zero for Jinbe if she had Devil Fruit abilities, and she would surely make it to the end of the series without eating one.
