 Hello and welcome to the Grand Line review your source for everything one piece and today I'm going to present to you 10 mighty characters who can defeat Kaido, according to CBR.com, which if you're not familiar with them, then good, that's a positive. But secondly it basically stands for comic book resources and they are quite possibly the undisputed masters of clickbait in the anime world. Although actually WatchMojo might give them a run for their money but it's a very close race, I certainly wouldn't be betting my life savings on it. But this particular topic of theirs which I will remind you is 10 characters who can beat Kaido, emphasis on the can portion of that. Well this is quite an interesting read because quite frankly I would struggle to come up with five characters who I think would definitively be able to beat Kaido. But CBR have well and truly outdone me here by managing to come up with a whole 10 characters who can allegedly pull off this feat. So we're going to go through their list here today because I am super curious about who these 10 individuals are. And just before we begin we're going to have some fun with this video because I want you to comment right now how many characters there will be on this list who can actually beat Kaido. I will accept answers ranging from zero all the way to all 10 characters. Comment with your bet now and just be aware that if you are wrong you will need to subscribe to this channel as punishment. All clear? Great. Well then let's begin our exploration of 10 characters who can beat Kaido, ranked apparently. Number 10. Monkey D. Luffy. Oh no. The captain of the straw hat pirate Luffy is the man known as the fifth yonko of the sea. And yeah we're not even one sentence into this article and I already need to point out that this person probably doesn't actually watch or read one piece since they have basically said that Luffy is the fifth fourth emperor of the sea. We are off to a fantastic start. With a bounty of 1.5 billion Luffy is already a fearsome pirate. When compared to Kaido Luffy is no way equal to him yet. Then why is he on the list? Remember this is 10 characters who can beat Kaido. However Luffy aims to take down Kaido at Wano country and when he says something he certainly does it. Whether he'll be stronger than Kaido or not is a completely different question but we're certain that Luffy will defeat Kaido one way or the other. Great so the first of these 10 characters who can be Kaido is a boy who the author admits is nowhere near equal to Kaido and has no idea how he even could defeat Kaido. Seems legit. In all fairness though I do take the point that Luffy is the main character and one way or another he will be involved in Kaido's defeat but you need to at least like use your words to make that argument. I mean there's all sorts of fancy terms available like say the narrative demands that Luffy will overcome Kaido but then again that probably wouldn't pass the CPL quality check by which I mean they scan for quality and deliberately make sure that none of it gets into their articles. In any case we're definitely not counting Luffy so that's zero out of one character so far who can beat Kaido. 9. Akainu The current fleet admiral of the marine. Marine, singular there? Not plural? Nope, singular. I suppose after the paramount war they must have had some pretty serious budget cuts so much so that there is now only one marine employed and I guess that's Sakazuki and this is a really picky thing because I know that people get these confused all the time but Akainu after being promoted to fleet admiral no longer uses the Akainu epithet. It's just Sakazuki now which is his real name and I don't begrudge any one piece fans for being confused by that however I do begrudge an author whose job it is to at least sound like they know what they're talking about. According to Oda his devil fruit boasts the offensive power of the highest class that along with his top tier Haki gives him a strong footing against Kaido. Of course defeating Kaido will likely be an uphill task for Akainu but as tenacious as he is there is a possibility that he'll pull it off. And look yeah I wouldn't dismiss Sakazuki easily at all but even the writer here is admitting that it's going to be incredibly unlikely for Sakazuki to win but they do cite the slim chance that he could possibly win but then again we could also say the same thing about Tonjit. It's going to be an uphill task for Tonjit but if Kaido happens to say he's suffered a congenital heart defect moments before stepping into combat then well there is the possibility that Tonjit will pull it off so I think we should add him to the list. Number eight Sengoku the former fleet admiral of the marines Sengoku is a man of many talents apart from his incredible strength he is also a shrewd man known for his sneaky tactics. Sengoku is one of the legends of the one piece world having history against the likes of Roger and Whitebeard and I don't think I've ever heard someone say history against I mean you can correct me if I'm wrong and it is the internet so you will but surely it would be Sengoku has a history with Whitebeard and Roger I don't think he has a history against them unless the writer means that he has fought against them before in which case maybe actually say that and for anyone who thinks that I might be being a bit too harsh with comments surrounding the use of English just remember that this is not some random commenter on the internet this is someone who was paid to write an article for a very prolific website and even if they do get the facts wrong they should still have you know a basic command of language as such there's no reason why he shouldn't be able to defeat Kaido in a fight mm-hmm all right I guess I should probably point out that you still haven't given me a reason why he would defeat Kaido in a fight all you've said is that he has a history against Whitebeard and Roger and whatever that means that could be a bad history it could be the kind of history where Sengoku repeatedly lost to both of them which proves nothing to anything about anyone ever and that's the problem with trying to scale characters like Sengoku because there's no point of reference it's all just assumptions and assumptions alone do not a Kaido defeat number seven Garp also renowned as Garp the hero and Garp the fist monkey de Garp as a lot of gaps is a vice admiral of the marines being their strongest known member in history there's no denying that Garp is capable of taking on Kaido yeah sure look let's be real with this one Garp is someone that I would probably seriously consider but it's highly dependent on what Garp we're talking about as the author goes on to state although he may not be able to defeat him as he is now in his prime Garp would certainly prove to be more than a challenge for Kaido and yeah shockingly enough I agree Garp in his prime versus modern day Kaido would be an amazing match to see should time travel exist that is and actually I suppose it technically does a one piece so sure this is the first reasonable candidate on this list number six dragon all right now we have another unreasonable candidate the son of Garp dragon is the leader of the revolutionary army in one piece I guess just in case we've gotten halfway through this article and forgotten what series we're talking about and also the worst criminal in history according to the world government although much of dragon strength remains unknown the fact that he's managed to challenge the government head on and even give them a hard time implies that dragon is very powerful and yes it certainly does but does it imply physical strength or say political power is dragon able to challenge the world government because he physically fights against them which we've never seen or is he able to challenge them by causing uprisings changing people's ideologies intercepting supplies and any number of other things that he's actually been shown you know doing I mean dragon is probably almost certainly significantly powerful but at this stage there is no way to know anything let alone judge him as someone capable of beating Kaido number five shanks a kind Kaido shanks is one of the yonko of the sea according to brand new shanks is the youngest of the yonko having been given the title about six years prior to the current timeline like dragon most of shanks's strength remain shrouded in mystery it is speculated that shanks uses just haki to defeat his opponents and that some incredible feat for a yonko some incredible feat yeah they are so the thing that really annoys me about this is that yes shanks is mostly a bit of a mystery power wise and I probably wouldn't put him comfortably on a list like this myself but as opposed to dragon there is actual evidence that shanks could maybe stand up to Kaido which is the sky splitting clash with whitebeard this is a tangible act of power and a fantastic piece of evidence that is nowhere to be seen in this explanation instead the writer chooses to focus on shanks defeating opponents with just haki and there's nothing particularly special about that in fact even luffy has defeated opponents with just haki in any case this continues whether shanks can defeat kaido or not is unknown but he certainly is on par with kaido if not stronger what what is this sentence so if i'm reading this right shanks is either equal to or stronger than kaido but with that in mind the author is still unsure if shanks would be able to defeat him despite putting him on this definitive list of characters who can defeat kaido there is some serious like mental whiplash happening here because by the very nature of the article you are claiming that shanks can beat kaido however you then say it's completely unknown whether or not shanks can indeed do that which is fine but in that case don't put him on the list but then you go on to say that shanks is at the very least equal to if not stronger than kaido with no stated evidence which is cool but in which case don't state that his victory is unknown because if we were to accept the second part of your sentence then yes he could do it means like every line in this article is designed to contradict the previous one interestingly the two have fought once in the new world and shanks emerged unscathed that marine foot after the fight this is not true or at least it's unknown and i've made a whole video on this topic so i won't go into it too deeply but it has never once been confirmed that shanks and kaido even met face to face let alone engaged in battle let alone one that had shanks coming out on top so number four big mom yeah nothing to complain about whatsoever here big mom is a perfectly reasonable choice and i think she is certainly the greatest example we have of a character who is equal to kaido i will however remind you at this point that this list is actually called 10 characters who can be kaido ranked so we've actually been going in order of the characters most likely to be kaido and that's important because big mom is number four meaning that there are three characters left who this author would imply can defeat kaido i suppose more than big mom can because remember all of these characters can defeat kaido despite the fact that the author continuously says that they can't in their actual descriptions but at number three we have blackbeard blackbeard yeah the admiral of the blackbeard pirates marshal detache also known as blackbeard is likely the main antagonist of the entire one-piece series he holds tremendous power which saw him rise to the status of a yonko during the two-year timeskip and that's nice it's like a good opening line to a wikipedia page but it's nothing even approaching an argument as to how blackbeard defeats kaido remember this is a man who we have not seen in action post timeskip and his pre timeskip showings were um not impressive to say the least blackbeard wields two devil fruit powers which include paramecia type gura gura noomi and the logia type yummy yummy noomi claiming to be the strongest in the world blackbeard has a good chance of taking down kaido in a fight and there's some more false information here firstly blackbeard has never claimed to be the strongest in the world and secondly if the author is referring to the devil fruits then that's still not true depending on your translation the army army noomi is either the most dangerous or the most evil fruit and the gura gura noomi is said to be the most powerful of the paramecia class both of which are still admittedly pretty damn amazing but there is currently nothing but speculation to say that blackbeard could so much as stand up to kaido and to finish this off i will say that ranks one and two are whitebeard and roger respectively both of whom are legitimate candidates the strongest man in the world and the pirate king i think with what we know it's fair enough to say that they could both be kaido if they were alive and in their prime that is so let's skip them and total things up here so we have roger whitebeard big mom and gap who could reasonably be stated to be able to defeat kaido every other character on this list is pure speculation or utter absurdity shanks is the only one who you could maybe make an argument for but the writer chose not to do that so whatever let's can him so on the list of 10 characters who can defeat kaido we have ascertain that less than half of them actually could so if you said four characters then congratulations you win the bet that we made at the beginning of the video but if you guessed any other number then you yes you need to subscribe to the ground line review that was the bargain do not try to argue with me but in conclusion cbr is terrible and the ground line review is slightly less 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