Trafalgar Law VS Zoro

• Sword fight.
• Standard gear.
• Law can use his powers to augment his striking/cutting force, but can't manipulate the environment or anyone. So he can only use his Devil Fruit's powers for sword fighting only.
• Haki is fair game.
• In character.
• Win by any means possible.

@leo-343: Heh, this is actually the opposite of what I thought people'd say. I was afraid people would say Law stomps. I'm cool with this.

Zoro with ease

I see. Thanks for the detailed input/analysis.

I haven't seen much of anything from Law as far as swordplay is concerned that suggests he could hang with Zoro.

Zoro is the best sword fighter in OP.

@lpnq: Close, but not there yet. There's still Mihawk, Shanks, Vista, and Fujitora.

Umm, forgetting Shanks and Mihawk are we?

@leo-343: where would you put zoro in relation to vista?

Zoro.

@leo-343: fair enough

Didn't Vista stalemate Mihawk? Can Zoro do that?

Agreed. Zoro would beat Law in swordplay, but he's still not the strongest swordsman.

@hatemalingsia: zoro would most likely win in a close match, law is a strategist. With the power of the ope he slaughters but this fight zoro takes it.

I'm not sure I'd call fuji much of a swordsman. Sure he's fast and strong, but a swordsman? He mostly uses it to direct his gravity powers. Kizaru can make a sword too, he could destroy Zoro, but he's not a better swordsman by a long shot.

Also, what the hell did Shiryu do? He was called an equal to magellan. That's all.

@wf_mxyzptlk: Magellan is also known as the fourth admiral, and I'm sure shiryu as gotten much stronger over the time skip

But, no feats. His hype isn't enough to cancel it out, unlike with shanks.

Sure, he is a swordsman, but a better one than Zoro? With his stat advantage and better powers, certainly a stronger opponent, but as far as just being a swordsman goes, I strongly doubt it.

Shiryu is going to be Zoro's opponent, that's fine to assume. However, how can we possibly make the judgement that he's superior? Zoro's last couple fights haven't been very strenuous, and a comparison with magellan isn't too favorable at this point. A good swordsman, sure. A rival, sure. But better than Zoro, without any concrete feats to say so?

Ya i never assumed he was anything but fodder.

Zoro.

That wtf moment when you go into a One Piece thread and see Shiryu, Captain of the Blackbeard pirate's second division, being called fodder.