This article contains spoilers from One Piece's Elbaf Arc.
One Piece's The Elbaf arc finally put some focus on the ultimate villain of the story and that is none other than Imu. Few fans of the series believed that Imu would take the spotlight in Elbaf, but that's exactly what Oda ended up doing. Although Elbaf first featured the Saint Knights as the main villains, Oda quickly shifted gears and introduced Ima. With that, Imu's abilities were also revealed to some extent. Fans were shocked to see the range The powers of Imu as well as their abilities.
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Mainly, however, the arrival of Imu on Elbaf confirmed to the fans what the strongest ability of the entire series is. Of course, based on what happened in Elbaf, most fans would assume that the strongest Devil Fruit is what imu has, or maybe Luffy's Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika. However, it is not quite. In fact, Oda picked up the most powerful Devil Fruit in the story over a decade ago. In Oda's own words Blackbeard's Yami Yami no Mi is the most dangerous and invincible power One pieceand Imu's arrival in Elbaf proves it once again.
Why Yami Yami no Mi is the strongest Devil Fruit power
Devil Fruits play an extremely important role when it comes to the power struggle between the most powerful in the One Piece world. Most of the highest levels in One Piece have powerful Devil Fruits, but not all fruits are equally powerful. Naturally, there are several very powerful Devil Fruits in the world, but the one at the top is Yami Yami no Mi. For those who don't remember, Yami Yami no Mi belongs to the Logia class of Devil Fruits and allows Blackbeard to control the darkness. With this darkness, Blackbeard can control infinite gravity and suck in anything near him.
With this ability, I am invincible Ace! — Blackbeard Ace
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The pressure of its gravity is infinite and anyone sucked in would be crushed in an instant. But that alone does not make this fruit the strongest. The fact is that this Devil Fruit can nullify all Devil Fruit powers. To top it all off, it also drops a key detail from One Piece chapter 441 Blackbeard's Devil Fruit can absorb the power of the devil himself. In other words, Imu's abilities would be useless against Blackbeard. Luffy's Nika power wouldn't workand neither did Gorosei's Yokai. Any Devil Fruit power or demonic ability like Imu's are useless against Blackbeard.
Awakening it would make it the strongest
Right now, the only downside is that Blackbeard's power is that he needs to physically touch someone to cancel his powers. This means that Blackbeard is still open to chips and can be hurt before contact is made. However, all that changes with Devil Fruit Awakening. If Yami Yami no Mi is awakenedthen no Devil Fruit user, or even Imu, can stand in his presence and retain their powers. Blackbeard would be arguably the strongest in One piece right after awakening his Devil Fruit.
Of all the Devil Fruits in history, this one is said to be the most dangerous of all. — Blackbeard To Ace
Oda specifically calls it the single piece's most dangerous fruit ability
Profession Yami Yami no Mi's most powerful ability is not just a conjecture or conjecture. Oda himself states in the manga that it is the most dangerous Devil Fruit ability to ever exist, and has authority over all other Devil Fruits, including the power of the Devil himself. This is exactly what Rocks D. Xebec was looking for, but unfortunately for him, he never found it. Teach already has this Devil Fruit, and no matter what he does to Ima, he wouldn't stand a chance against Blackbeard in an all-out battle.
One Piece's The final stretch is sure to give fans a glimpse of incredible battles and a clash between Blackbeard and Ima is almost inevitable at this point. Whenever that happens, fans can rest assured that it's Blackbeard who will have the upper hand, despite Imu's overpowering abilities.
Eiichiro Oda's One Piece will be on hiatus this week. One Piece Chapter 1166 will be released next week. The official release date of One Piece Chapter 1166 is November 23, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.
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October 20, 1999
- Network
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Fuji TV
- directors
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Itō, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudou, Takahiro Imayomura, Yashiôhiro Mayuū Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Satou
- Writers
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Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shouji Yonemura, Yoshiyuki Suga, Atsuhiro Tomioka, Hirohiko Uesaka, Michiru Shimada, Isao Murayama, Takuya Masumoto, Yoichi Takahashi, Momoka Toyoda
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Mayumi Tanaka
Monkey D. Luffy (voice)
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Kazuya Nakai
Roronoa Zoro (voice)
