One Piece Author Oda reveals Imu's two biggest weaknesses

Nero's Saint Imu is one of the most powerful characters in all One pieceand Oda recently gave fans a good look at their abilities. When the Imu arrived in Elbaf, it was abundantly clear that their power knew no bounds. But that was just a small glimpse of what they were really capable of. One Piece's The Loki flashback shed more light on Imu's powers than ever before, and in case it wasn't clear, they're simply invincible, or so it seems on the surface. Imu is incredibly overpowered and there's no denying that. But, Oda had already revealed Ima's two biggest weaknesses.

In fact, Oda even lays out an exact plan to follow in order to take Ima down, and it's all right in front of the readers' eyes. In time, someone will exploit Imu's two biggest weaknesses and eventually take them down. These two weaknesses were specifically mentioned in Loki's flashback by Rocks D. Xebec, the man who came from Davy Jones. According to Rocks D. Xebca, one needs two specific devil fruits destroy the world government, which means two specific fruits are needed to defeat the Imu and crush their order.

Rocks wanted two specific Devil Fruits to defeat Ima

Nika Fruit Hard counters Imu's Powers

• Yami Yami no Mi is needed to fight Imu

• Hito Hito no Mi, Model: Nika can counter Ima

Rocks' plan was to be executed right from the start the promise of his ancestor Davy D. Jones. Being a member of the Davy Clan himself, Rocks was adamant about keeping the promise Jones made to Im.

What that promise was is still unknown, but what fans do know is that Davy Jones wanted to knock Ima off the top of the world, and so did Rocks. When asked about his goal, he made it clear that he wanted “The World”. In other words, the Rocks wanted to crush the Imu World Government as promised by Davy D. Jones.

When Rocks first met Imu in Marijoa, he didn't fight him and the reason is simple. Rocks himself knew there was nothing he could do against Imo, so he left with the warning that he would return when he was ready. Later, Rocks said that he needed two Devil Fruits to fulfill his plan to crush the government. in other words Rocks wanted two Devil Fruits to defeat Ima. Rocks wanted Harald to eat one of these fruits and probably wanted to eat the other himself.

Connecting all the dots makes it very easy to deduce Imu has two biggest weaknesses they are two specific Devil Fruits that Rocks wanted to beat him The first of these two is most certainly the Nika fruit. This is also likely the fruit that Rocks wanted Harald to eat, given that the legend of the sun god Nika is associated with Elbaf, and given that Jarul confirmed that Harald tried to be Nika in his own way. WITH the power of Nika fruitone could counter Imu's Domi Reversi and all the powers that spring from the power of evil, and this is because the fruit is opposed to the Ima itself.

The second ability would be Yami Yami no Mi, the strongest Logia. This fruit is special it absorbs the power of the devil himself. In other words, not even Imu can fight with his powers.

Haki Level Joy Needs A Boy

Imu can only be countered with the strongest Haki

There is also powerful Haki that is needed to fight Imubut it must be of the highest order. Rocks used his Haki in the battle against Imu, but it didn't work because it wasn't strong enough. But in Egghead, Joy Boy's Haki clearly worked against the Eldersall of whom derive their powers from Imu. Another thing one would need to defeat Ima is Haki of the highest order.

The next chapter of One Piece will be released this week. As usual, One Piece drops on Sunday. In Japan, One Piece drops Monday at 12pm JST. However, the vast majority of international readers will see the chapter available on November 2nd. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.

Release date

October 20, 1999

Network

Fuji TV

directors

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

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)