Many of One Piece's Strongest Techniques Suffer from Drawbacks

 Since debuting in 1999, One Piece has quickly earned a reputation as one of the most popular fictional works in the world. Monkey D. Luffy and the Straw Hat Pirates have spent over 1,000 episodes sailing across the Grand Line in their search for Gol D. Roger's long-lost treasure, and along the way, they have encountered a variety of fighters with devastatingly powerful abilities.


However, as is often the case with powerful attacks, many of One Piece's strongest techniques suffer from serious drawbacks. Whether they incapacitate their user, damage their user's allies, or inspire some sort of unintended side effect, these drawbacks make their respective techniques a dangerous double-edged sword.


Given Monkey D. Luffy's status as the protagonist of One Piece, it should come as no surprise that he wields some of the most overpowered abilities in the series. His patented Gear 3 and Gear 4 techniques are strong enough to take down the likes of Donquixote Doflamingo and Charlotte Katakuri. Still, unfortunately, they come at a high cost to their user.


After employing Gear 3, Luffy shrinks to the size of a child. After using Gear 4, he's unable to use Haki for several minutes. Although neither of these drawbacks is a death sentence, they are a massive liability while sailing the Grand Line.


Impel Down holds the most heinous criminals in One Piece history, so the prison needs a warden capable of wrangling its murderous inhabitants. Magellan fills this role pre-time skip and uses the powers of the Venom-Venom Fruit to keep Impel Down in check.


The Venom-Venom Fruit is easily one of the strongest Paramecia Devil Fruit in One Piece, minus one major flaw. If its user ingests any poison, their body will be unable to process it, leaving them attached to a toilet or garbage can like Magellan is for much of his time on-screen.


With each passing arc, One Piece's Straw Hat Pirates add more members to their ever-growing group of followers, the Straw Hat Grand Fleet. Among its ranks is the Chinjao family, a group of towering pirates that wield Hasshoken — an ability unique to their family.


By controlling the vibrations around their limbs, Hasshoken users can create powerful shockwaves that decimate unsuspecting opponents. However, any attack with significant force dissipates these shockwaves, rendering them completely useless against many of the pirates that decorate the New World.

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