The Cross Guild will STRIKE in ELBAF! | One Piece Theory

Elbaf is one of the most anticipated arcs in One Piece, and its one of the three Locations that Oda’s been hyping up throught One Piece. The Stawhats have already Visited Fishman Island and Wano, but i believe the third and Last location, Elbaf, Will Surpass both of these in Importance and Scale. We already know that Shanks and the Redhaired pirates have claimed Elbaf as their territory, so they will likely be included in the arc, but i also believe Elbaf is where the cross guild will strike, and Where Zoro will have his rematch with Mihawk, During a Davy Back Fight between 3 Yonko Crews. To Explain why i believe this so strongly, we will have to dive into how Oda crafts the Themes and Structure of the Story in relation to the Elbaf Storyline, and how this will lead into some of the most important matchups in the entire Series. So hopefully by the end of this video, once weve layed out and connected all of the Pieces that make up the Elbaf arc, youll be on board with this theory too.
Timestamps:
00:00 : Intro
04:15 : Why Elbaf?
06:55 : Who's Involved?
13:47 : Elbaf Storyline
18:09 : Fight Matchups.
29:38 : Conclusion
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[@jordanshropshire8081]

Shanks buggy and Luffy in a Davie back fight would be f****** awesome

[@jamesemmert742]

what really needs to happen is Straw hats vs Cross guild vs Red hair pirates vs Blackbeard pirates and make it an actual battle royale like oda said in his message before the final saga started. The winner gets the last road poneglyph. if the giants have it...

[@veruskatorres9276]

The royal battle would be cooler in laugh tale, the Cross Guild are to new and incomplete to lose that easily

[@100TypeYolt]

🔥🔥🔥🔥 so excited to see how everything plays out. Really good quality on the vid and always love your takes on how the narrative can be spun in the most compelling ways, rather than just covering the obvious angles. 👊🏼👊🏼👊🏼

[@The_Ciple]

Thanks, I appreciate your support for this channel!

[@Auf.DerMaur]

Would be amazing if Elbaf is a huge tournament arc.

[@lukeyyc]

The amount of happy chemicals my brain would produce…

[@strawhatslay7670]

Nah that level of weak ass anime troupe better not be how elbaf go down elbaf has to SURPASS egghead. It has to be absolute peak fiction not bc it's elbaf BCCC ITSS GODDDDAAAAAA

[@lukeyyc]

@@strawhatslay7670 ofc but the center of the arc being an all out tournament with top tier fighters is a badahh trope

[@wrenchdodger]

A great watch from start to finish! One of the more thoughtful and evidence-based theories on the platform. I agree that everything you mentioned is definitely possible based on the story so far. Also, Oda definitely didn’t write Long Ring Long Land just for it to never matter again. The Davy Back Fight was founded on Hachinosu, it’s gonna be endgame-important.

[@AnimeALX]

I think Shiki may make a return in Elbaf and that's how Kidd ties into the story. Additionally, I believe Law and Bepo will pull up in Elbaf to learn about the Will of D. But setup the Strawhats to help him spin the block on BB for his crew. This way we get the Rocky Port Incident and God Valley Parallels with Luffy=Roger, Law=WB, and Koby=Garp.

[@justinmoody9164]

It would be cool if his new Hammer only granted powers during times of bravery

[@LeftEyeGod]

Agenda channels 🤮

[@HerculesOfHate]

I'll say this when it comes to Big Mom and Kaido: I think Kaido is legit dead and not coming back and im ok with that ending for him as a character. Brother was TOO strong to come back, it would just be too hard to properly scale him again into action. He was looking for a fantastical death and being punched by an island sized fist into a volcano fits that. Big Mom however I believe will be returning 1 last time. Luffy said it himself "I'll kick your ass all across the New World". Seeing a scarred and burned Big Mom with a Lava homie would be awesome, the problem is Im not sure where she fits into the story now. Egghead has escalated the story really dramatically and Elbaph feels like it will have a very deep story of its own, im not sure Big Mom would fit anywhere even with her relationship with the giants. But with this theory perhaps we could see Big Mom and some of her crew in a Davy Back Fight as well!

[@danieljoseph3013]

Great video; only thing I disagree with is mihawk vs zoro, then all of his future opponents will be too weak to fight

[@The_Ciple]

I dont wanna spoil part 2 and 3, but i think Zoro can be put in the position of proving Real Swordsmanship is superior to trickery or Hax abilities against opponents like Shiryu and Nusjuro.

[@danieljoseph3013]

@@The_Ciple I will check it out once you release them. Hopefully they make sense.

[@debater452]

Shiruy would definetly be too weak. Nusjuro can potentially be above or equal to Mihawk after we learn more about his abilities and power

[@user-fq7kt7py4e]

Wanna see team battles. Kid and law vs big mom was such a good fight. I'd love to see another 2v1.

[@ZorusSerif]

I also think usopp will get a devil fruit for his konabow a beetle beetle fruit model Atlas so that he has the maneuverability to combat van auger as theorized by Crap Cafe & it makes a lot of sense that he would

[@freakydeaky1435]

nah cross guild are doing an impel down breakout. We know weevil is going to come back into the story. We know marco was approached to get him out, and we know cross guild need more fighting members. Marco will approach buggy/croc for help breaking weevil out as they managed to break out before, cross guild will agree to get new, strong members.

[@nickanderson8305]

We saw sall. He doesn't have scars. Can't be him

[@mrorganic13]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="360">6:00</a> random theory I thought on the spot . Everyone says shanks wants to surpass roger and joy boy . What if he wants to follow joy boy? Next time him and luffy meat he offered a Davy back fight with both captains on the line to truley prove luffy is diserving of his following

[@turnpikefoolio3302]

Kid needed a defeat to learn

[@dragonballmaster5324]

If this Dave back fight actually happens on lodestar island it’s more likely to hinted by long ring long land and little garden reference elbaf so their is also a chances that elbaf is not a day back fight but lodestar island. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="330">5:30</a>

[@lorddukfoxyzeppeli7921]

why didn the search for it during the timeskipas it was his original goal

[@erickluviano981]

Ain’t trynna see any more of eustass mid either

[@xxtortellini1016]

I’m gonna use this to push my foxy agenda

[@Dreadpoolz3977]

This is exactly what I think will happen a Davey Back fight between the three then Blackbeard pulls up and interrupts it, Shanks sacrifices himself to hold Blackbeard off while the Straw Hats and Cross Guild go to Lodestar when Gabban is waiting for them.

[@The_Ciple]

So what do you think will happen on Lodestar then?

[@dragonballmaster5324]

What about lodestar island that’s other island the straw hats need to reach before the laugh tale <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="250">4:10</a> is that include in the 4 to 3 arcs of one piece for this finally saga that are missing

[@MarkGilbertArevalo]

I hope Oda don't make Luffy and BB fight Imu together then fight to each other after defeating Imu.a

[@veruskatorres9276]

Nah i hope they reach to Laughtale is to early for Zoro to fight Mihawk and who is Crocodile gonna fight? Robin? Lmfao 💀

[@bmoney3837]

it will form the 3 man Yonko alliance for the final war

[@christianolson8543]

How will the Strawhats make it to Elbaf when they’re going to die at Egghead?

[@mrorganic13]

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="468">7:48</a> I don’t think kid has potential like luffy to grow as fast but luffy got one shot by kaido and proceed to beat him in the same ark. So I am taking kid vs shanks with A grain of salt no matter how much I don’t want to see him return

[@donelcoetzee9466]

I think luffy will take the blame for bartos burning the flagand telling shanks something like i told u i would fight u one day and shanks just plays along and fights luffy😂

[@dogginurmom7484]

The man marked by flame is the warlord ace beat No way is it dragon

[@landocheckingin]

Zoro was struggling with WHO in Egghead? Lol I thought we were beyond this cope.

[@turnpikefoolio3302]

I like the pirates playoff take but Zoro not fighting mihawk. The man marked by flames is Scopper hidden by Roger

[@MrRourk]

It will be a three way battle and God Ussop will end up reunited with his father.

[@turnpikefoolio3302]

Big mom forsure stole the rest of kaido life !😊😮

[@stateyourbuisness1928]

Davey backfight makes so much more sense for the pirate guild than shanks crew.... shanks is evil btw easy confirmed by me

[@jamesemmert742]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="694">11:34</a> buggy already found captain johns treasure. Thats the only reason cross guild can pay for marine bounties lol, just a shit load of money

[@spinz8]

I think the Blackbeard pirates will take out the Cross Guild on their own off screen. It would be nice to see Mihawk fight Zoro but it would down play his fight with Shiryu since he'll be considered the world's best swordsmen after defeating Mihawk.

[@user-zp8ih2bj4q]

That's why youre not the writer of one piece bro you think way too shallow. Oda isn't gonna just off screen the BB pirates "taking out" the cross guild bruh lol. He's gonna come up with something and Mihawk will still be Zoro's final opponent

[@spinz8]

@@user-zp8ih2bj4q The payback war was off screen. Aokiji vs Akainu was off screen. Shanks vs Kaido was off screen

[@jamesemmert742]

@@user-zp8ih2bj4q mihawk is not his final opponent lol. there fight has to happen before the final war

[@danieljoseph3013]

Shiryu is too weak to beat mihawk, that’s why I think shiryu will fight zoro before mihawk

[@veruskatorres9276]

Thanks God Oda is writting OP bc this will be very lame like what was the point then? Buggy is the luckiest pirate ever no way he isnt getting in one way or another to laughtale and would lose that easily and Mihawk is Zoro final opponent, plus Cross Guild have so much potential to bring other characters into the final battle.