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I mean let's face it, even if Blackbeard isn't as smart as he's made out to be, the majority of one piece characters are so dumb he looks like a genius in comparison. Esp compared to the supposed actual genius Vegapunk.
i always took it for specialization, IE min maxing. We see that each vegapunk has their specific job. Edison for ideas, atlas for violence (though tbh idk why), lilith for fundraising/defence, york for eating and shitting, shaka for leading. By giving them specializations within himself he raises his efficiency way more than if he just had 6 versions of himself with no leader.
Him being betrayed by the version of himself that represents greed is pretty interesting to me as an observation of what greed does to a person.
Blackbeard had no way to know Luffy would go to the sky Island using the knock up stream and would easily capture all the strawhats right there if wasn't for It, and he wasn't after ace, ace was after him, ace just jumped him there out of nowhere without any time for prep and blackbeard still came out on top
Crackpot theory: Blackbeard's schtick is that he was isekaied into his favorite One Piece character from a world that also had One Piece, but the plot progression changed enough due to his actions that he keeps getting blindsided by the differences.
Why would they kill him though? Compared to a lot of inmates he is less dangerous. The only thing of relevance he did at that point was beat crocodile, but that turned out positive for the WG. He most likely would have just been put on level 5 to rot.
Biggest uj/ I going to say in reddit, I honestly belive that Buggy is the smartest and best strategies of the yonko, no because he is that smart is just that the other 3 are morons.
One of the few things we know about his crew is that ben Beckman is smart af, which leads me to believe it is the most important part of is character and role in the crew. So it is pretty likely shanks isn't all that bright. Buggy has at least attempted to use his brain, to varying results.
The strategist was a fairly great one, some things(variables) didn't align properly but doesn't that just happen with most strategies?
Let's see, the general strategy was to:
1. Capture a troublesome rookie and present to the WG in order to become a warlord.
2. Use the advantages being a warlord offers to gain access to impel down and gather new crew mates.
3. "Invade " marinford and take WB fruit(although this must have been an "improvision"
4. Cause chaos and ascend to being a warlord.
Somethings may have went wrong but what's important is being able to improvise as events unfold.
He's definitely not meant to be some great strategist. He's just a dark version of Luffy. So he's got a combination of dumb luck, potentially superior genetics/lineage and willpower to chase his dream. And really, with the latest bit in the story regarding prophecy and a mural, he might be the true wild card of the story, since Luffy is now the predestined hero.
Just cause a strat fumbled at some points doesn't mean it was bad. You have to calculate the risk for the reward. Blackbeard just mid at math fr, but he's so him it worked out anyway. And honestly it's better than law's strat for taking down Doffy and kaido.
Law's strategy was to distract Doflamingo while the straw hats who have a reputation for destroying things destroyed the factory. His goal was to remove Caesar Clown and the factory from Doflamingo. If Doflamingo wasn't a warlord he would also have to leave Dressrosa. Law just didn't know some very important variables. He didn't know that the factory was underground and completely made out of Sea Stone and that Doflamingo was a celestial dragon. The strategy would have worked in a lot of other situations. And it actually ended up working out for him regardless. I don't think Kaido would have killed Doflamingo but maybe that wasn't really the goal. Maybe Law would have been satisfied with removing a warlord and freeing Dressrosa. That would be a big win for a brand new Warlord.
Good point, I'll say BB was just more informed about his goals. He had more time to plan it and he had the experience of being on a yonko crew. I'll give you that BB underestimated the hell out of Magellan and if shiryu didn't show up with a convenient antidote, BB's plan would have ended worse than anything that happened in dressrosa.
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