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I don't think Zoro used Power Mimicry. He did have ever since Punk Hazard to learn how to cut fire, and could have easily taken time to practice the technique up until the end of Act 2 Wano.
He simply learned the technique by watching Kin'emon. We don't take every case of a character learning an attack or style over time from their "mentor" and refer it as Power Mimicry.
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(Now to talk about this chapter :3 which felt very fast)
In regards to the shadows Kaido saw, we all know for a fact he has seen or battled those 5 individuals in the past (Rocks being his captain, Roger having fought Rocks, Whitebeard being a Yonko and legend at the level of Roger, Oden nearly defeating Kaido, and Shanks for unknown reasons--presuming they didn't fight prior to the Paramount war).
It's totally likely that Kaido refers to those 5 specifically because they are people who most likely "defeated him". After all, if you look at Oden, he was supposed to have killed Kaido and WOULD HAVE if not for cheap tactics. If anything I think this panel is specifically hyping up Shanks since his appearance is the most "recent" looking one since 4 of those characters looked as they are shown literal decades ago (3 of those mentioned died decades ago as well), if that makes sense. Maybe Shanks truly did force Kaido to retreat from combat 2 years prior.
- It makes no sense for Garp NOT to be among the shadows since he defeated Rocks alongside Roger... But this can easily be dismissed as "Kaido only counting Pirate Legends... not Marines", otherwise we'd definitely see Garp and Sengoku.
- We also don't see Shiki or other notable pirates from that era most likely due to them not having an in-canon appearance (Episode 0 is still a mixed bag).
- There's also Big Mom, but that can be dismissed as "She's literally right there".
Luffy seemed to definitely dodge the Thunder Bagua, but still got grazed (or the attack just hit his nose and nothing else). Either way, he should not scale fully to that attack. His Kong Gun was ineffective against Kaido, but this is simply because he wasn't using his special Ryuo/Goken attack.
I'm still calling it: Law will absolutely give his life for Luffy. He's so flustered. This chapter just confirms it to me.
Luffy, Law, and Kid are definitely the top 3 Supernova in the ladder, prove me wrong tbh. Zoro's #4 tho
Kaido is definitely dismissing Zoro and Killer. While Zoro will obviously prove to get stronger in this particular fight, idk what Killer is going to do since he's never been hinted to have a special ability of any kind.
Law made a reference to "killing Kaido from the inside", so perhaps we'll see him use Gamma Knife one more time? I wonder how Kaido would recover from that since unlike Doflamingo, he doesn't have any known restoration potential.
Also, all 3 attacks at the end didn't seem to affect Kaido, even Luffy's Kong Gun. Red Roc used fire + Ryuo, so I suppose this means Ryuo amps Gear 3rd > normal Gear 4th.
I disagree about Kaido dismissing Zoro and Killer. At the end he said it was a shame had to kill all of them. Seems like Kaido is impressed with the strength of all 5 Supernovas, not just Luffy, Kid, and Law. But everything else, I fully agree with.
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