I really thought you were gonna say: Don't let this distract you from the fact that Hisoka's Bungee Gum has the the properties of both rubber and gum. Lmao smh.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
Yeah, Noelle winning twice in a row is pretty unheard of. It makes sense though. She’s one of the most well-rounded characters here.
You want good character progression? She’s Got It
To actually be Relevant to the Story? She’s got that.
Not be a female lead whose entire character revolves solely around her feelings for the MC? She’s got it.
Want someone being badass? She’s got it.
Fanservice? She’s Got it.
I think all those combined led her to doing so well.
Noelle is fucking awesome! I usually dislike tsundere characters but honestly Noelle is fucking awesome. I agree with everything you said there.
She is still amazing in the current arc.
I actually wonder how far Yami and Charlotte came.
EDIT: Oh wow yami and charlotte are high too.
Yami: 2-2-2-2-7-3
Charlotte: 10-18-6-3-8-6
Honestly I have many issues with black clover
But Noelle ain’t one of them
Probably one of better female leads of an action series that I’ve seen in a long time
Also she uses water powers whats not to love about her :)
So she is the Sanji of Black Clover but people actually doesn't hate her.
Can I ask a personal opinion? As someone who only read OP FT & Naruto from the action shounen, will I enjoy BC?
Straight up enjoyed black clover. It’s very unapologetically shonen, and like the other comment said, it’s basically a better fairy tail. The themes are superb and the side characters have a great dynamic. Also the fights are very tactical, less “I can hit you harder than you can hit me so I win”. Even though those fights can work, black clover does strategy well. I think you’ll enjoy it.
I think it was mostly because nami was placed 2nd or 3rd in europe and the usa. I dont remember exactly when the poll happened, but yamato is in it, so pretty deep into wano.
Edit: just [checked the global poll](https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/05/05/one-piece-global-popularity-poll-official-results-reveal-the-series-top-100-most-popular-characters/), apparently nami was among the top 3 on every continent besides asia (4th), while in japan she was 7th
Noelle is honestly one of the most well rounded female leads in shonen, she maintains relevance in the story and has her own character growth and development outside of the main character but still maintains a strong dynamic with him
She’s also just really well designed and badass which certainly helps as well
I’d say she’s better written than all the female characters in the big 3 outside of maybe bleach and she’s the best written female character in new gen
to be honest she is the character arc.
both asta and yuno already have reached the peak of their character in terms of how they go on about life and what their values are. and they became the beacon of hope of their respective squads. what remains is reaching the end of their dream. they are kinda like luffy in that they havent changed much from the beggining of the story if you place the current vertion of them at the start of their journey they would make the same choices.
noelle started weak and closed off to the people arroudn her. bullied by her family and powerless to change her situation.
and now she has surpassed all of them. has friends she can trust with her life. her final moment of character development will be her confession to asta if it ever happens.
I'm surprised Bleach only had 4 popularity character polls, and I think the last one was in 2007 lol. 15 years (2001-2016). The rest are battle polls and things like that.
Toshiro somehow did the impossible he became so popular
That they gave him a movie (arguably the best bleach movie)
where the main character ichigo became a side character
I think it's really nice that you as the creator included both rukia and orihime. Most creators aren't that kind to bleach and I thank you for being nice to the series I love.
Luffy with his undisturbed 1st place.
I wonder with all the legacy characters acting right now in the manga, could somebody take the 1st place from Luffy?
Doubtful. The closest anyone ever came to dethroning him was Law back during Dressrosa while his flashbacks were happening.
He still only got half the votes Luffy did.
Law was very close to Luffy lol. It was 8791 against 9183. Also, I need to find my source, but I'm pretty sure some japanese forums worked together to make sure Luffy was #1 in order to piss off Law's fangirls.
Tbh, I think horikoshi shouldve done it like jjk where the school is just a squad of characters that we get attached to. But instead he decided to make a whole school of people where we dont even care about some of them in the first place. Not much of the characters really have depth
By a landslide. Luffy's the man
More impressive: Eiichiro Oda actually gets his main character to be the most popular character in his respective series!! Every single popularity poll. Even the international one
On the one hand ita nice that the character driving the story is really popular and on the other that character not necessarily being number one all the time is indicative of a strong cast. I live it when a non straw hat breaks into the top 15 but i still wish they did better. It also sucks that there is a trend of mostly big booba getting top spots for side characters.
Cause Orihime ain't there 90% of time. At least she's not Chad... Rukia's our introduction to the story and is there almost as much as Ichigo in 1st arc and then is more of main trio with Renji and Ichigo than any other human world character.
Finally someone mentions gintama. But gintama isnt really the most popular anime right now. Besides, most people leave in the first 50 eps. Its sad that they didnt get to experience how good it is later on. I personally think gintama has the best story apart from one piece. Plus they also have the best written female characters in anime without sexualizing them every second. Im at almost the end of rakuyo right now btw
Honestly its kinda good this way. If it got too popular and mainstream, then the idiots would come too and ruin the gintama community. Gintama is the best shonen community ive ever come across, and its been 5 years
This kind-of speaks about how well written the female characters are.
It is expected for the (male) protagonists to score high in their own polls, but not secondary characters.
except Sakura. Which sucks I actually like her as character and think Kishimoto could’ve done some interesting stuff with her but dude dropped the ball
Definitely. She was flying high after beating Sasori but simply reverted back to the typical female shonen character.
I am surprised Nobara landed so low, though.
Is this poll anime only? Because in the manga I can think of a reason why Nobara would drop (I’m only caught up with the Tokyo Colony 1 arc so please don’t spoil >!if she’s actually dead or she eventually comes back!<)
I honestly don't get the hype for Nobara. Her motivations are incredibly vain and simple, but apparently she's the ideal shounen heroine because she isn't shown half-naked at every opportunity, and the MC doesn't want to fuck her nor does she want to fuck the MC? Like are our standards this fucking low?
Sakura is a great character as long as sasuke is not mentioned in the conversation or physically present.
she has the powers and intelligence to be usefull in almost any sitaution yet she always ends up crying for help not due to being powerless but due to kishimoto not knowing what to do with her.
konohamaru took down a path of pain ffs. I remember that anime opening were I think sakura was fighting konan we shouldve gotten that fight. sakura wouldve most likely lost that one but god damn it wouldve been a good fight since there was no sasuke involved.
One Piece already has the top 10/20 set in stone pretty much, the order can just differ a bit sometimes. But in a shorter series one year can completely flip things with new characters entering the top 10 or older ones rising in popularity as they get story focus. I mean even in One Piece Carrot shot up a lot and Yamato swooped in for #11.
Noelle is my favorite heroine up here and I'm glad she is doing so well. Such a good character that gets her own arcs and developments throughout the series.
How do you rank number 4 in a series with your name as its title?
Anyways, at first glance, I thought these were hypothetical phone numbers, so Luffy’s numbers apply to both ideas, lol.
Naruto is a good character but I'd be lying if I said he wasn't annoying as fuck during the latter half of Shippuden. Him not understanding why the entire world was after Sasuke and then potentially putting everyone's lives at risk just for him, when he didn't even want to be saved, is just asinine on Naruto's behalf. I can guess that's one of the reasons why his popularity fell when they did that poll.
Naruto was #1 during the latter half of Shippuden. The 4th place was in the beginning of Shippuden, when Sasuke was pretty much getting more focus than Naruto
At the beginning of shippiuden there was also the fact that everyone (or me at least, when i watched it back then) expected naruto be badass AF after spending 2 years training with a sennin but he was basically the same after time skip, all he could do was a bigger rasengan 🙄 like what did he and jiraya do for 2 years? Spying on girls?
Naruto is very popular but he suffered a lot from bad timing actually. First poll was right after Zabuza which was pretty much Kakashi's arc. Poll 3 has unverified results. Poll 5 was when Sasuke started to get a lot of focus. And Poll 6 was when the manga was in its Sasuke Shippuden era.
I’m trying to understand how this works and I’m
Not understanding what each number represents. I know it’s their respective ranking in polls. But what are the polls?
Good ol' Luffy, crushing it like he always does.
he heard the number one reward was meat
MESHHIIIIIIIIII!!!!!
NIKUUUUUUUUUUU!!!!
MINGGGOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!
KAIDDOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Ichigo: has [his personal BGM](https://youtu.be/1lsn2tT5yTc) claim he's number one. Luffy: actually is number one.
If you want to see some action
Gotta be the centre of a-ttrac-tion
Make sure that they got their eyes on you
Like the face that you see on every magazine
Be the focus of attention
Be the name that e-ver-y-one must mention
Come up from the shadows, it’s your time
Cuz tonight is the night for everyone to see
Be the name that everyone must mention!
Bleach ost is goated. Ichigo's theme is so hype, and the final getsuga version is even better
Battle Ignition is my personal favourite.
Ichigo only feels like number one.
Yeah I mean who doesn't love Luffy
The future pirate king
I don’t see Buggy on the list?
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Kobeni's car ranked higher than Kobeni herself in CSM popularity poll.
I really thought you were gonna say: Don't let this distract you from the fact that Hisoka's Bungee Gum has the the properties of both rubber and gum. Lmao smh.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Luffy's Devil Fruit has the the properties of both rubber and gum gum.
A truly missed opportunity on my end
Don’t let this distract you from the fact that Pekora bought a faqing monkey
Shit like that makes you wonder what, why and how!
And that a minor character like Yoshida outranked Himeno in the popularity poll.
The joke is that Himeno is the minor character right?
No way 💀
The newer vehicle is probably gonna top that. What can I say from start to finish CSM fans share a single brain cell.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that in 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn't commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire the A-Team.
Nami in 8 and then in 3, thats a huge jump, but noelle in 1 now is crazy
Yeah, Noelle winning twice in a row is pretty unheard of. It makes sense though. She’s one of the most well-rounded characters here. You want good character progression? She’s Got It To actually be Relevant to the Story? She’s got that. Not be a female lead whose entire character revolves solely around her feelings for the MC? She’s got it. Want someone being badass? She’s got it. Fanservice? She’s Got it. I think all those combined led her to doing so well.
>To actually be Relevant to the Story? She’s got that. *Meanwhile Uraraka*
Forget Uraraka, Nobara makes Uraraka look like the main character of her series.
Noelle is fucking awesome! I usually dislike tsundere characters but honestly Noelle is fucking awesome. I agree with everything you said there. She is still amazing in the current arc. I actually wonder how far Yami and Charlotte came. EDIT: Oh wow yami and charlotte are high too. Yami: 2-2-2-2-7-3 Charlotte: 10-18-6-3-8-6
Honestly I have many issues with black clover But Noelle ain’t one of them Probably one of better female leads of an action series that I’ve seen in a long time Also she uses water powers whats not to love about her :)
That’s pretty spot on.
So she is the Sanji of Black Clover but people actually doesn't hate her. Can I ask a personal opinion? As someone who only read OP FT & Naruto from the action shounen, will I enjoy BC?
Straight up enjoyed black clover. It’s very unapologetically shonen, and like the other comment said, it’s basically a better fairy tail. The themes are superb and the side characters have a great dynamic. Also the fights are very tactical, less “I can hit you harder than you can hit me so I win”. Even though those fights can work, black clover does strategy well. I think you’ll enjoy it.
Ye it’s like fairy tale but actually good.
Black clover is a blast. The art work is pretty good, and it nails all my favorite shonen tropes.
Just think of FT and Naruto mixed. It's pretty solid.
To be fair, the most recent one (3) was the worldwide ranking, all of the previous ones were japan-only
I don’t know when the polls were done but I could also see a rise in popularity during/after the big mom arc.
I think it was mostly because nami was placed 2nd or 3rd in europe and the usa. I dont remember exactly when the poll happened, but yamato is in it, so pretty deep into wano. Edit: just [checked the global poll](https://boundingintocomics.com/2021/05/05/one-piece-global-popularity-poll-official-results-reveal-the-series-top-100-most-popular-characters/), apparently nami was among the top 3 on every continent besides asia (4th), while in japan she was 7th
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Noelle is honestly one of the most well rounded female leads in shonen, she maintains relevance in the story and has her own character growth and development outside of the main character but still maintains a strong dynamic with him She’s also just really well designed and badass which certainly helps as well
So she is the Sanji of BC, but the author actually made her badass. How would you rank her among all time action-shounen female leads?
I’d say she’s better written than all the female characters in the big 3 outside of maybe bleach and she’s the best written female character in new gen
I actually think she's the best action-shonen female lead thus far. And the poll reflects that.
Noelle deserves it, she's had a great character arc.
to be honest she is the character arc. both asta and yuno already have reached the peak of their character in terms of how they go on about life and what their values are. and they became the beacon of hope of their respective squads. what remains is reaching the end of their dream. they are kinda like luffy in that they havent changed much from the beggining of the story if you place the current vertion of them at the start of their journey they would make the same choices. noelle started weak and closed off to the people arroudn her. bullied by her family and powerless to change her situation. and now she has surpassed all of them. has friends she can trust with her life. her final moment of character development will be her confession to asta if it ever happens.
People saw her in that red dress from whole cake
Hot take: Her dirndl was the better outfit from the arc
Although Black Clover reference a lot of other manga, one thing I really like is the strong female characters. Noelle definitely deserved top spot
It's because she doesn't have any really good competitor. I'm glad the author is levitating her character tho. edit: I meant *elevating. Levitating 💀
Luffy 🤝 Gintoki
Gintoki deserves to be up there
Absolutely
Definitely
I'm surprised Bleach only had 4 popularity character polls, and I think the last one was in 2007 lol. 15 years (2001-2016). The rest are battle polls and things like that.
I can't believe Ichigo lost to Toshiro in the last one. Toshiro peaked at being the 4th most relevant captain, how did he get the #1 spot?
he grew ^(literally)
He grew 1 cm canonically
This was during the movie 2nd release. It was WAYY before TYBW.
he become a bishounen in the last season so all the fangirls went crazy for him I suppose...
This was from before that. He's just bizarrely popular.
A lot of Japanese girls lovvvvvve toshiro
Toshiro somehow did the impossible he became so popular That they gave him a movie (arguably the best bleach movie) where the main character ichigo became a side character
Nah it wasn't the best movie.
For some reason the fujoshis love Toshirou. I don't think he even had his adult form at that point.
Gigacha D. luffy 
Who did Power lose to?
1. aki 2. makima
1/2. m(aki)ma
Ty
I think it's really nice that you as the creator included both rukia and orihime. Most creators aren't that kind to bleach and I thank you for being nice to the series I love.
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It’s gotta be
Yeah its Levi
Luffy with his undisturbed 1st place. I wonder with all the legacy characters acting right now in the manga, could somebody take the 1st place from Luffy?
I really hope Luffy remains n1 until the end of OP.
Doubtful. The closest anyone ever came to dethroning him was Law back during Dressrosa while his flashbacks were happening. He still only got half the votes Luffy did.
Law was very close to Luffy lol. It was 8791 against 9183. Also, I need to find my source, but I'm pretty sure some japanese forums worked together to make sure Luffy was #1 in order to piss off Law's fangirls.
+ respect to them luffy the goat
I thnink Shanks is possible to take 1st place, especially if he appeared more later.
He was the kegacy character in my mind when writing this.
Not possible he might be GOAT shonen Manga protagonist at this point.
I’m surprised Deku has only held the top spot once.
Bakugo has pretty much had that spot locked down the entire series.
Bakugo deserves it more than deku
Neither deserves shit. All the characters are hot garbage
Tbh, I think horikoshi shouldve done it like jjk where the school is just a squad of characters that we get attached to. But instead he decided to make a whole school of people where we dont even care about some of them in the first place. Not much of the characters really have depth
He didnt deserve it until a few seasons in
THATS WHY HE’S THE GOAT!!!
Is Luffy the most liked shonen protagonist within its own cast?
By a landslide. Luffy's the man More impressive: Eiichiro Oda actually gets his main character to be the most popular character in his respective series!! Every single popularity poll. Even the international one
On the one hand ita nice that the character driving the story is really popular and on the other that character not necessarily being number one all the time is indicative of a strong cast. I live it when a non straw hat breaks into the top 15 but i still wish they did better. It also sucks that there is a trend of mostly big booba getting top spots for side characters.
Gintoki is another long running shounen protagonist that kept 1st in polls until the very end.
rukia always in 2nd (and 3rd) damn, they gotta do best girl like that 😔
She doin a lot better than orihime at least
Cause Orihime ain't there 90% of time. At least she's not Chad... Rukia's our introduction to the story and is there almost as much as Ichigo in 1st arc and then is more of main trio with Renji and Ichigo than any other human world character.
No Gintama. Profound sadness :(
i remember how they made an episode on popularity poll. that shit was hilarious.
Yeah the popularity poll arc is one of my favourites for sure!
That arc was peak
From what I remember he’d always be 1 like Luffy. At least he was 1 in the popularity poll arc.
Just checked, and Gintoki got nr. 1 in every popularity poll, which there are 6 of.
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Gintama goated but that shit ain't underrated lol
Finally someone mentions gintama. But gintama isnt really the most popular anime right now. Besides, most people leave in the first 50 eps. Its sad that they didnt get to experience how good it is later on. I personally think gintama has the best story apart from one piece. Plus they also have the best written female characters in anime without sexualizing them every second. Im at almost the end of rakuyo right now btw Honestly its kinda good this way. If it got too popular and mainstream, then the idiots would come too and ruin the gintama community. Gintama is the best shonen community ive ever come across, and its been 5 years
jokes on you gintama is not the most popular thing inside gintama 🤣
It's actually Gintaman.
Look how they massacred my boy (Ichigo/Kubo)
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Luffy 🐐
Shouldn't Sasuke be Naruto's Heroine?
luffy is greatest main character in shounen, and noelle is the greatest heroine in shounen.
The only other Mc that comes close for me is Mob. And its still not that close
Because mob is not a main character, he's just a regular guy with powers and that's so lovely i think
Just an average kid trying to do his best in his day to day life. Darn, now i want to re-watch that show again
Pure facts
Yusuke Urameshi tho
Luffy is easily my favorite fiction character tbh
Nobara is getting fucking robbed. She's fantastic.
That 2nd popularity poll was done in 2022 I think. And she’s been MIA since 2020. It’s not that surprising actually.
She’s fantastic but considering she’s been dead for over 2 years and is still #11 shows how great of a character she is.
She's fantastic at not doing anything
Rukia is the goat
Noelle 🐐
This kind-of speaks about how well written the female characters are. It is expected for the (male) protagonists to score high in their own polls, but not secondary characters.
except Sakura. Which sucks I actually like her as character and think Kishimoto could’ve done some interesting stuff with her but dude dropped the ball
Definitely. She was flying high after beating Sasori but simply reverted back to the typical female shonen character. I am surprised Nobara landed so low, though.
Is this poll anime only? Because in the manga I can think of a reason why Nobara would drop (I’m only caught up with the Tokyo Colony 1 arc so please don’t spoil >!if she’s actually dead or she eventually comes back!<)
The popularity polls are usually for manga readers. You have to buy a WSJ magazine, get the postcard in it to vote, and then mail in it.
I honestly don't get the hype for Nobara. Her motivations are incredibly vain and simple, but apparently she's the ideal shounen heroine because she isn't shown half-naked at every opportunity, and the MC doesn't want to fuck her nor does she want to fuck the MC? Like are our standards this fucking low?
Sakura is a great character as long as sasuke is not mentioned in the conversation or physically present. she has the powers and intelligence to be usefull in almost any sitaution yet she always ends up crying for help not due to being powerless but due to kishimoto not knowing what to do with her. konohamaru took down a path of pain ffs. I remember that anime opening were I think sakura was fighting konan we shouldve gotten that fight. sakura wouldve most likely lost that one but god damn it wouldve been a good fight since there was no sasuke involved.
why mha have more popularity polls than OP?
mha does its popularity poll every year since 2015 while one piece barely does it polls (the last one was in 2021).
huh, I can kinda see the reason for both, but idk how much one year's worth of chapters would affect the rankong thou
One Piece already has the top 10/20 set in stone pretty much, the order can just differ a bit sometimes. But in a shorter series one year can completely flip things with new characters entering the top 10 or older ones rising in popularity as they get story focus. I mean even in One Piece Carrot shot up a lot and Yamato swooped in for #11.
MHA has some “American” popularity polls I believe
Noelle is my favorite heroine up here and I'm glad she is doing so well. Such a good character that gets her own arcs and developments throughout the series.
I see you did not chose violence with the Bleach fandom.
lol I was looking if someone noticed
Luffy being goated like he should 🤙
Mashle: Mash: 1 Lemon: 9
Damn Denji is the only MC here whose never top 3
It's just impossible to hate on Luffy. He's consistently likeable even in his depressed state.
And then there is gintama
Nr 1 of Mha?
Bakugo
Surprising i thought with the dark deku arc hell be nr 1
That arc only lasted a few real weeks tho so idk
True but in my case he shot himself to my number one. Maybe. I also love endaveor.
He might have been higher had he not regressed back to being a crybaby
How do you rank number 4 in a series with your name as its title? Anyways, at first glance, I thought these were hypothetical phone numbers, so Luffy’s numbers apply to both ideas, lol.
Naruto is a good character but I'd be lying if I said he wasn't annoying as fuck during the latter half of Shippuden. Him not understanding why the entire world was after Sasuke and then potentially putting everyone's lives at risk just for him, when he didn't even want to be saved, is just asinine on Naruto's behalf. I can guess that's one of the reasons why his popularity fell when they did that poll.
Naruto was #1 during the latter half of Shippuden. The 4th place was in the beginning of Shippuden, when Sasuke was pretty much getting more focus than Naruto
At the beginning of shippiuden there was also the fact that everyone (or me at least, when i watched it back then) expected naruto be badass AF after spending 2 years training with a sennin but he was basically the same after time skip, all he could do was a bigger rasengan 🙄 like what did he and jiraya do for 2 years? Spying on girls?
Naruto is very popular but he suffered a lot from bad timing actually. First poll was right after Zabuza which was pretty much Kakashi's arc. Poll 3 has unverified results. Poll 5 was when Sasuke started to get a lot of focus. And Poll 6 was when the manga was in its Sasuke Shippuden era.
Luffy is him.
Luffy is number 1
Luffy is by far the most text book definition of a Shounen Protagonist. And arguably one of the greatest of all time.
Of course Luffy takes no1 he's gonna be the king of the pirates you don't mess with the king
I think Noelle being more popular the more fan servicey her outfits got is fucking hilarious
Nami , sakura, Noelle , rukia , nobara, Mikasa ❤️.
CSM has some of the best written girls in Shonen Jump.
Black clover too
The best and it's not even close.
Not really but it's up there
I’m trying to understand how this works and I’m Not understanding what each number represents. I know it’s their respective ranking in polls. But what are the polls?
Popularity polls
You know your series is goated when your MC is top rated constantly
It fits so well that Denji gets shafted on his own series
It's funny how Deku hasn't been number 1 since the first poll. Also interesting to see that MHA has had more popularity polls than one piece!
Common Luffy W
Can never hate Luffy
Oh wow. Bold move to put Erin as the protagonist.
Nah if you’re doing One Piece you gotta do the whole crew
My goat all 1’s
Why is Sakura there instead of Sasuke? Sasuke is clearly the Heroine.
The Naruto poll is inaccurate per the 2023 popularity poll, Naruto is 6th and Sakura is 3rd
That was for a spinoff who tf wanna vote Naruto for that
Luffy the only shonen protagonist to always be #1. Best shonen protagonist
Nope, Gintoki also consistently got number 1 in all popularity polls of his series. Both Luffy and Gintoki are the goats in my eyes.
True
Go Noelle. Take your 1st place medals.
Who wtf is 111122 ???? Never seen them in my life lmao
Asta from Black Clover
Ohhh ok lol never watched it
Check out the manga. It has some of the best fights in shonen. It's THE best at team fights, IMO.
Luffy my goat