ZEPHYR | THE NEO MARINE

JIRAIYA | THE SAGE

RULES

• Composite Jiraiya


• Film Z Zephyr


• Healthy Zephyr


• No Genjutsu


• Speed Equalized


• In Character, but Serious


• Fight to K.O. or Death

@streak619 As we agreed upon, I shall go first. Expect my post soon as I already made a respect thread for Zephyr

@thenewguysnm1: Delete your comment pls

Current Jinbe? I'm confused.

Sorry. I copied and pasted the rules from another thread

This is an uphill battle since Z isn’t impressive but I’d be interesting in getting tagged.

@socajunkie: I mean, he took an island-level blast point blank and it only knocked him out.

Really fuzzy on Jiraiya though.

probably this

bump for voters

@the_legendary_supersaiyan_hulk: He also lost to Base Luffy.

"BLACK ARM" ZEPHYR

A former marine admiral, Zephyr was a devoted soldier of the marines back in his earlier years. He lived a dangerous, yet fulfilling life as an admiral, balancing his missions with his family life, living with his loving wife and his playful son. All was well for Zephyr until his family was slaughtered by a vengeful pirate. However, contrary to what one might expect, this event only served as extra motivation for Zephyr to serve the marines and hunt down the pirates of the New World. As he would grow older, Zephyr's role in the marines would transition from soldier to trainer, training the next generation of Marines. However, one fateful day, Zephyr's entire division of recruits, say for two people, would be massacred by a Devil Fruit wielding pirate. Zephyr even lost his arm during that event, leading to it being replaced by a mechanical arm made of Kairoseki. Despite his misfortune, Zephyr's devotion to the marines was unwavering, that is until the same pirate who killed his division would be recruited to join the Shichibukai. After finding this out, Zephyr lost faith in the marines and resigned, opting to form his terrorist organization called the Neo-Marines.

FEATS

Throughout the movie of Film Z, Zephyr is portrayed as a physical powerhouse, as can be seen in this section.

To start things off, there is Zephyr's first encounter with the marines. Here he exemplified a respectable amount of strength, swatting away marine soldiers like flies, destroying the ground in the process. He was then able to block and overpower a strike from a Giant before one shotting him with an attack from his mechanical arm. While this feat mat seem disposable compared to what Jiraiya is capable of, it should be able to give you a baseline for how strong Zephyr is.

Later on in the movie, Zephyr is confronted by Kizaru, a marine admiral. This alone should tell you just how powerful Zephyr is considering the fact that an admiral was required to help the marines take down Zephyr. However, let's examine the fight further. So it starts off with Zephyr reacting to and deflecting a light based attack from Kizaru with relative ease. Kizaru then teleports into the air and projects another beam of light of which Zephyr is once again able to deflect. Now obviously this isn't relevant to the fight since speed is equalized, you should focus on the durability feats present in the clip. His mechanical arm was dense enough to deflect an attack from Kizaru and he was even able to no sell the following explosion, meaning that Jiraiya's fire jutsu isn't doing anything to Zephr.

Now, after this fight sequence, Zephyr is pitted against the Monster Trio. He starts the fight off by attacking Luffy, sending him flying through a wooden door, dealing significant damage to him. He then goes onto block a kick from Sanji and a sword slash from Zoro with his mechanical arm before blocking a barrage of strikes from Luffy with his human arm. It is noteworthy that Sanji's kicks are city level + due to oneshotting a Pacifista, so already Jiraiya is going to have a tough time getting past Zephyr's mechanical arm. Now returning back to the fight, Zephyr returns the favor with a kick to Luffy's chest that creates a shockwave, staggering him. Following this, Zephyr overpowers a kick from Sanji, which again is city level +, before backhanding him away with his human arm. Zoro attempts to strike Zephyr, only for his attacks to be blocked by Zephyr's mechanical arm on two separate occasions before overpowering him with a single arm motion. As Luffy prepares to blitz Zephyr, he reacts to it with a punch to the face, staggering him. With a punch, Zephyr was then able to cancel out a slash from Zoro with relative ease. After the rest of the Straw Hats are seen fighting against Zephyr's subordinates, the movie cuts back to Zephyr blocking an attack from Luffy with his mechanical arm and following up with another punch to the face before tanking a slash from Zoro to the chest and blocking another slash with his mechanical arm. Zephyr then goes onto heavily stagger Sanji with a punch from his human arm. The fight ultimately concludes with Zephyr punching Luffy in the face, creating an explosion that sends Zoro and Sanji flying.

Towards the climax of the movie, Luffy gets a rematch with Zephyr. Zephyr starts the fight off high caliber bullets with his mechanical arm. With these bad boys, Zephyr should be able to open up the distance IF Jiraiys starts to overwhelm in CQC, which is doubtful. He then blocks an attack from a Gear Second Luffy with his human arm, albeit Armament Haki enhanced, creating a shockwave. Remember that Gear Second Luffy is also city level + due to one shotting a Pacifista. Zephyr goes onto overpower Luffy, the same Luffy that can push apart buildings Pre Timeskip, before firing off more bullets from his mechanical arm, aggressively opening the distance between him and Luffy. Finally, Zephyr fires off an energy blast, further opening the distance and creating large explosions that I doubt Jiraiya could tank.

As the fight continues, Luffy attempts to blitz Zephyr, but it is ultimately blocked by Zephyr's human arm, without it being Armament Haki enhanced. So even without Armament Haki and his mechanical arm, Zephyr can still block city level + attacks with ease. He then goes onto block several attacks from Gear Second Luffy with his human body parts before causing Luffy to retreat. As Luffy charges towards him, Zephyr creates a large explosion that is so potent that, even though Luffy was a good distance away from the explosion, he was still sent out of Gear Second. This doubles as a durability feat because Zephyr was able to no sell the explosion.

The last rematch Luffy would have with Zephyr is a battle of Armament Haki. He was able to cancel out an attack from Luffy with his Armament Haki before heavily staggering him with a punch to the face and to the gut. He then blitzes Luffy, bombarding him with punches. Luffy then retaliates with a punch to the gut before receiving a strike to the gut from Zephyr that sends him reeling. After this, Zephyr clashes with Luffy before tanking another attack from Luffy. There is then a montage of Zephyr and Luffy trading blows, both of them tanking hits to the face. Following this montage, we see just how much damage Zephyr inflicted upon Luffy as fatigue starts to set in for the Straw Hat captain. And while Zephyr is drained, this can be chalked up to old age, as established towards the end of the clip. However, since Zephyr is healthy in this fight, stamina is not an issue. Zephyr then starts to blitz Luffy, hitting him with blow after blow before tanking a kick to the face. Luffy charges towards Zephyr only to be met with a punch to the face. Luffy retaliates with a punch to Zephyr's face before receiving several punches to the chest. Now, at this point, both Luffy and Zephyr are nowhere near fighting condition, but as said before and as said in the video, this is because of Zephyr's old age, and yet despite this, Zephyr was practically able to outlast Luffy, which is impressive given Luffy's insane stamina. In fact, he even goes onto fight against an entire army of Marines while severely injured.

INITIAL CONSIDERATIONS

On the whole, Jiraiya has no chance of besting Zephyr. My best guess is that this fight will come down to CQC, and Jiraiya simply doesn't have the strength feats to get past Zephyr's mechanical arm, Armament Haki, and raw strength considering they have all no sold and even overpowered city level + attacks. Jiraiaya's only chance at really hurting Zephyr is with the Massive Rasengan, but he can't use that in CQC and Zephyr can easily parry it with his mechanical arm given its immense durability. Then there are Jiraiya's hax, and they won't do much as fire jutsu is countered by Zephyr's insane amount of energy and heat resistance. Jiraiaya's summonings can be one shotted by Zephyr's energy blasts and bullets. Overall, Zephyr takes this fight for a sold majority.

@streak619 Post is up

@gearsecond659: cool

@streak619: When can I expect your post?

@gearsecond659: A week maybe.

@streak619: You already have jirayia posts done

@streak619: Bumpity bump

I need time. 1-2weeks.

@streak619: Just a little reminder..

Dang.

@streak619: The links should be working now. Lmk if they aren't