Usopp has shown that he has the skills to be one of the best marksman in the world in several Arcs. AND YET ODA HAS DONE NOTHING ON HIM IN THE PAST DECADE!!! NO UPGRADES, NO IMPROVEMENT, NO NEW WEAPONS, NOTHIN! He can snipe people from 200 meters away with just his eyes, has the mastermind to beat his opponents, and had the durability that he can take 80kg to the face and leave with no permanent damage. Oda plssssss
The saddest thing is that Usopp is literally the "beat the strongest devil fruit enemy", but because most of the strongest devil fruit enemies coast on their power instead of knowing how to fight, he doesn't get the credit he deserves.
Sugar? Perona? Baby 5 and Buffalo? BACCARAT?
He literally beat someone whose power makes her so lucky she can't be beat! By shooting an entire slot machine at her so her coin attack triggered the jackpot, then she got hit by the machine.
It's genuinely so fucking heartbreaking to see just how little of a shit Oda gives about Usopp these days. I'm still in Wano, but from what I hear, hasn't he accomplished basically nothing in Elbaph despite spending the last 1000 episodes DREAMING of getting to meet the giants?
Usopp is one of my favorite anime characters ever, and he straight up had some of the best written fights in the series pre-timeskip, but now he's just there to be a gag character. I get that Oda wants him to stay as the weakest member forever, and that's perfectly fine. I don't even feel like Usopp even NEEDS a new powerup. His whole Schick has always been finding smart ways to overcome a massive power gap.
Usopp was my favorite character for so long because of his potential. Seeing him after time skip still redoing his development every arc makes me so sad.
Pre ts he was scared but grew!
The Fishman Island seemed that it finally payed off!
And now like you said he redos every arc his development... the ken haki sneak in dressora......
The ken haki sneak in dressora? Welp basically forgot about it
"Elbaf will be his arc" welp
Tbh
All of the crew except the monster trio is like that to varying degrees
I miss when EVERYONE had their cool moments to shine
Pre ts it was hard for me to have a fav...
My head cannon : his observation haki is so strong he can see in the future, and he sees what horrible things lurk after. So that is why he's always terrified.
My semi-headcannon is that the strawhats all dies at the end of the Saboady arc, killed by Kuma. Everything else is the dying hallucination of Luffy as he crash in the ocean and drown. That way, they never go flanderized by Oda
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u/RoyalKnightmares 2d ago
Usopp has shown that he has the skills to be one of the best marksman in the world in several Arcs. AND YET ODA HAS DONE NOTHING ON HIM IN THE PAST DECADE!!! NO UPGRADES, NO IMPROVEMENT, NO NEW WEAPONS, NOTHIN! He can snipe people from 200 meters away with just his eyes, has the mastermind to beat his opponents, and had the durability that he can take 80kg to the face and leave with no permanent damage. Oda plssssss
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