This article contains spoilers for the Elbaf episode of One Piece.
one piece The Elbaf arc finally focuses on the ultimate villain of the story, which is Imu. Few fans of the series believed Imu would take the spotlight on Elbaf, but Oda eventually did. Elbaf initially featured paladins as the main villains, but Oda quickly switched gears and introduced Immu. This revealed Lee Mu's abilities to some extent. Fans were shocked to see the extent of it. Immu's abilities So are their abilities.
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But more than anything, Imu's appearance as Elbaf confirmed to fans what the most powerful ability was in the entire series. Of course, based on what happened with Elbaf, most fans would think: The strongest devil fruit Whatever Imu has, or maybe Hito Hitonomi from Luffy, model: Nika. But in reality this is not the case. In fact, in his story, Oda highlighted the most powerful Devil Fruit from about 10 years ago. According to Oda himself, Blackbeard's Yami Yaminomi is the most dangerous. And invincible power one pieceand Imu's arrival at Elbaf Proving it once again.
Why Yami Yaminomi is the strongest devil fruit
Devil Fruits play a very important role in the power struggle between the strongest people in the world of One Piece. Most of the top tiers of One Piece have powerful Devil Fruits, but not all fruits are equally powerful. Of course, there are very powerful devil fruits in the world, but the one above them is Yami Yaminomi. For those of you who don't remember, Yami Yaminomi belongs to the Logia class. The Devil Fruit allows Blackbeard to control darkness. into this darkness, Blackbeard can control infinite gravity and suck in anything nearby..
With this ability, I am an invincible ace! — Blackbeard to Ace
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The pressure of his gravity is infinite, and anyone who is sucked in will be instantly crushed. But that alone doesn't make it the strongest fruit. In fact, this Devil Fruit can cancel out all Devil Fruit abilities. Moreover, the key details of One Piece Chapter 441 also include: Blackbeard's Devil Fruit can absorb the power of the devil itself.. That means Imu's abilities would be useless to Blackbeard. Luffy's Nika ability does not workAnd the same goes for Gorosei's Yokai. Demonic abilities like devil fruit powers or Imu are useless against Blackbeard.
When you awaken, you will become the strongest
The only downside right now is that Blackbeard's powers require physical contact to cancel someone's powers. That means Blackbeard is still open to counters and can be injured before contact is made. But all of this changes with Devil Fruit Awakening. if Yami Yaminomi has woken up.If so, not even a devil fruit user, not even Imu, would be able to stand in front of him and maintain his power. Blackbeard is undoubtedly the strongest. to one piece Immediately after the devil fruit awakens.
This Devil Fruit is said to be the most dangerous of all Devil Fruits in history. — Blackbeard to Ace
Oda is explicitly mentioned as One Piece's most dangerous fruit ability.
calling Yami Yami no Mi's most powerful ability This is not just a guess or assumption. Oda himself states in the manga that this is the most dangerous Devil Fruit power in existence and that it has power over all other Devil Fruits, including the power of the devil himself. This is exactly what Rocks D. Xebec was looking for, but unfortunately he couldn't find it. Teach already has this Devil Fruit and no matter what Imu does, he stands no chance of facing Blackbeard in an all-out war.
one piece The final stretch will show fans an incredible battle. A conflict between Blackbeard and Imu is almost inevitable. At this point. Whenever that happens, fans can be sure that despite Imu's overwhelming abilities, it's Blackbeard who will have the upper hand.
Eiichiro Oda's One Piece is being serialized this week. One Piece Episode 1166 comes out next week. The official release date for One Piece Chapter 1166 is November 23, 2025. Fans can read the chapter for free on Manga Plus.
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October 20, 1999
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Fuji TV
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Hiroaki Miyamoto, Konosuke Uda, Junji Shimizu, Satoshi Ito, Munehisa Sakai, Katsumi Tokoro, Yutaka Nakajima, Yoshihiro Ueda, Kenichi Takeshita, Yoko Ikeda, Ryota Nakamura, Hiroyuki Kakudo, Takahiro Imamura, Toshihiro Maeya, Yuji Endo, Nozomu Shishido, Hidehiko Kadota, Sumio Watanabe, Harume Kosaka, Yasuhiro Tanabe, Yukihiko Nakao, Keisuke Onishi, Junichi Fujise, Hiroyuki Sato
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Jin Tanaka, Akiko Inoue, Junki Takegami, Shinzo Fujita, Shoji 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)
