One Piece Episode 587

[Kraco]

Also, why does pulling out Smoker's heart make him pass out? Losing parts via Law's power doesn't effect anyone else negatively.

Also, why does pulling out Smoker's heart even effect him at all? He's a Logia user.

Maybe Law was suppressing its beating. Who knows. But apparently for logia users getting parts removed by Law's power is different from more normal means, at least if the logia person was in a human form when it happened.

Regardless, Law kicks ass.

Funny that Tashigi still sucks.

Yeah, although seeing how even Smoker lost, I suppose relatively speaking losing to Law doesn't make her that weak.

[DarthEnderX]

Maybe Law was suppressing its beating.

That's true. He did have it in a little box. So maybe he was squeezing it or something.

Yeah, although seeing how even Smoker lost, I suppose relatively speaking losing to Law doesn't make her that weak.

Well, it doesn't help matters that he one shots her then CALLS her weak.

At the very least, it's safe to say she hasn't done much to catch up to Zoro in the past two years.

[Kraco]

Well, it doesn't help matters that he one shots her then CALLS her weak.

At the very least, it's safe to say she hasn't done much to catch up to Zoro in the past two years.

Well, yeah, if you compare her to the fighting oriented central characters from whom we expect continuous growth in battle prowess, then most certainly she hasn't done much if this fight is of any indication. However, I'm not too sure she was that sort of a character to begin with. She's very idealistic and orderly. Does she even strive to become uber strong personally? Zoro has been willing to risk his life from the beginning and is doing little but training, sleeping, and eating drinking. Maybe for Tashigi strength is the strength of Marines as an organization.

[DarthEnderX]

Well, yeah, if you compare her to the fighting oriented central characters from whom we expect continuous growth in battle prowess, then most certainly she hasn't done much if this fight is of any indication.

Who else would you compare them against? Since the whole point of this G5 unit seems to be to set them up marine foils for the Strawhats.

Smoker and Luffy are going to fight again at some point, and I expected that Tashigi and Zoro would fight at some point as well. But the way she is now, there's really no point.

I don't know what the point of keeping pre-timeskip characters around after the timeskip would be if not to also have those characters grow and stay relevant.

For example, I'm fully expecting Coby to be a badass when we see him again. In fact, I was kind of expecting him to have been assigned to Smoker's unit since Garp retired. But sadly, that doesn't seem to have been the case.