 Kaido, Ka-Don't, Kaidu, Kaidu, subscribe to the Grand Line Review for regular One Piece content uploaded straight into your YouTube feed. Hello and welcome to the Grand Line Review, your source for everything One Piece, and as many of you know, on this channel we recently covered CBR's list of 10 characters who can be Kaido. We mocked, we laughed, and then we promptly moved on with our lives. And just for some people who didn't like the tone of that video, look, I get it, it's not the wonderful joy of One Piece type of thing that I would usually represent, but at the same time, it's not like I stumbled upon some kids' blog post and just tore it apart. With over 3 million subscribers, CBR is a gigantic corporate entity designed to exploit your love of popular culture for a purely profit-driven motive, and they make well over a million dollars a year in YouTube revenue alone, so with that in mind, yes, we can and should fold them to excruciatingly high standards when it comes to the articles they disseminate. But I'm afraid it simply cannot end there though, because it is one thing to sit back in your comfortable chair behind a computer screen and demean someone else's efforts. But if you're not capable of taking on the task yourself, then you probably shouldn't have opened your mouth to begin with. So that's what today is all about, because I'm going to take their topic and present you all with a list of characters who can actually beat Kaido. And then once I've presented my list, you are all free to scrutinize and tear me apart like I did with CBR, because that is the circle of life. Ah, it's beautiful. But this list has actually been extraordinarily tricky to compose, because Kaido is a presence deliberately designed to evoke the pinnacle of raw strength in this world, which goes all the way back to his introduction, where the narrator stated, in a one-on-one fight, always bet on Kaido. Land, sea, and air, of every living thing in this world, this pirate is said to be the strongest creature alive. So we do have our work cut out for us here, and it gets even worse. Particularly when we consider that even Kaido cannot defeat Kaido. I mean, we've seen him try. He failed. So it's worrying when the world's strongest living thing cannot defeat the world's strongest living thing. And I'm not about to make it any easier either, because I have some extra restrictions to impose. Firstly, we will only be examining living characters. So that means no Roger, no Whitebeard, no Odin, and so on and so forth. Secondly, no time travel. By which I mean saying stuff like, well, Garp in his prime could certainly defeat Kaido. I'm just not interested in going down that rabbit hole. Too much speculation. Speaking of my third foolishly self-imposed rule, is going to be no pointless speculation. By which I mean offering up characters who have never shown a single tangible piece of evidence to use, and a great example of a character like that would be Eam, the Five Elder Stars, Ryokugu, and most importantly, Monkey D Dragon. I'm more than happy to reassess in the future when characters like this do kick into gear, but for now, to me, they're just not worth the time. And my final restriction is that I will not be considering characters for meta-narrative reasons, and this pretty much just applies to Luffy. I wholeheartedly believe that we will eventually somehow see him defeat Kaido, because that is what the story is going to call for. But that will not be used as a reason to place him here today. Now, the big question, why am I doing all of this? Well, it's because when I see a statement like 10 characters who can beat Kaido, the impression it gives me is one of present tense and in-world legitimacy. It says to me that there are people in this world right here and now that can overcome Kaido for an at least semi-logical and demonstrable reason. And as such, I feel kind of cheated when I see these loopholes use like Garp from the past or Luffy because he's the main character. I think stuff like that is once again just a waste of time, which isn't to say that what I'm doing right now isn't also a waste of time. It's just a more rigidly structured waste of time, like most of my videos really. Due to that structure, though, I've already encountered a bit of a problem, which is that it is simply not possible to come up with 10 living modern-day characters who can defeat Kaido. And that will happen when you are the strongest living thing in the world. However, I have come up with a mighty six, so we are going to alter the deal and turn this video into six characters who can beat Kaido. And I probably haven't titled the video that because six is just not as satisfying of a number as ten is. And if you don't like that, then please do express your displeasure by hitting the subscribe button for the Grand Line review. And if I see a sudden surge in subscribers, then I'll get the message pretty quickly. But who are these six mystery figures? And how are each and every single one of them capable of overcoming the strongest living thing in the world? Well, we're going to start with the obvious one, which is Big Mom. So this is not a surprise to anyone. Charlotte Linlin has been consistently portrayed as quite probably the only living thing in this world that can equal a force like Kaido. I mean, if I had to bit the two against each other, I feel like I would take the narrator's advice and bet on Kaido, primarily because he's more or less immune to Linlin's devil fruit, while she is certainly not immune to his powers. But from everything that has been demonstrated, there is no clear winner here and it would take a mighty, mighty battle to settle things between these two. One that Kaido may very well lose. So Charlotte Linlin is the first of our six characters. And next up, we're going to cover another some may say obvious one, which is Shanks. So this is a bit weird because I discounted Shanks when talking about CBR's list. But that was mainly because the writer didn't make like an actual argument for him being there. But the thing is, Shanks has actually long since displayed one of the biggest tangible cues of power within the series, with the very famous sky-splitting clash with Whitebeard. This is something of a trademark and probability, which does immediately plonk him up there as someone who can possibly beat Kaido, because he has demonstrated the pinnacle of strength, even if it was on a mere single occasion. And while I accept that a lot of this is that filthy word speculation, it's not pointless speculation because we do have a point of reference for Shanks' abilities. Whereas we don't even have that with characters like Dragon. Anything to do with Dragon is 100% speculation, while someone like Shanks would be more like 50% speculation, because that is the power of evidence. And fun fact, a lack of evidence is also why Mihawk will not be on this list, because yes, we do know that he was once the dueling partner of Shanks, but that was in the past. And we have no idea whatsoever how he stacks up to Shanks right now. So using that point as a reason why Mihawk could overcome Kaido is highly dubious and best. I'm not denying that Mihawk could be that powerful, I mean there's every chance that he's even stronger than Shanks. But at this point all we have to go by is his examples of taking out scrubs, which is not quite good enough. Shanks is good enough though, and that is why he will be the second of our band of six Kaido conquerors. And I want you all to know that when I say that I'm spelling conquerors with a K because I like alliteration. But Shanks and Big Mom were the obvious ones, and before I move on to the other four characters who can defeat Kaido, I'm going to flag that some of you probably won't like these answers. Primarily because none of what I'm about to say has roots in overcoming Kaido via power. I mean that's just sort of the reality of being the strongest living thing. There aren't all that many people who are going to be able to defeat you in that particular game. However that does not mean that Kaido cannot be beaten in other more creative ways. And by creative I mean more creative than like a punch in the face. And with that in mind we now land on Sugar, the wielder of easily one of the most overpowered devil fruits in existence. The hobby hobby no me allow Sugar to turn any living thing into a toy simply by touching them. That is literally the only condition Sugar needs to activate instant defeat upon anybody. Although to be fair that's not entirely true, Sugar does need to form a contract with the toy victim afterwards, which if she forgets to do so will be bad. Like what happened with Cures for example, and in that case even a toy form of Kaido will certainly destroy the very otherwise fragile Sugar. But that is still not at all a difficult thing to accomplish because making a contract just involves Sugar paying attention and having a conscious thought. That's it. That is all it takes and an Emperor is gone and forgotten. And I'm sure there are many people who don't like the Sugar argument because it would never happen in One Piece, which I agree. It never would because it's a story and that would not be a fantastic turn of events. You know for one of the most prominent antagonists of 23 years of storytelling to be dismissed in this way. But other than the fact that One Piece is a story which is a factor I've already said I'll be dismissing, there is no reason why this cannot happen. Kaido is arrogant, not overly cautious, and susceptible to any attack at any time. It's just that his own power makes 99.9% of those possible attacks completely meaningless, not Sugar's though. And I should say that there is a big difference between the Sugar argument and other similar fruit powers. Another one that would come to mind would be Gekko Moria's Devil Fruit, the Kaga Kaganomi, because in theory he just needs to steal your shadow. And then if you are left in the sun, well you die. Eventually it's not instant but it's pretty damn quick. It's not quite as simple as that though because Moria's shadow stealing condition is much more finicky than a simple touch, much more conspicuous as well. And even once the shadow is gone that still leaves Kaido entirely free to attack Moria and take his shadow back. Because even if he is in the sun he does still have a bit of time, and a bit of time is far too much time. Meanwhile Sugar is one and done. There is no chance for Kaido to retaliate whatsoever and that is why Sugar is the third of our six characters who can beat Kaido. And we're going to continue along a similar train of thought with our next example being Jewelry Bonnie. Bonnie has a startlingly easy win condition in any given matchup, which is that she can alter the ages of herself and others. And in this case we are much more concerned with the idea of others. And from here Bonnie has two options. She can either de-age Kaido back down to a young dragonling, or she can rapidly age him to the status of decrepit old beast. Either option being capable of incapacitating anybody, even the strongest creature in the world. I suppose the only real tricky part is that Bonnie needs to be sure that she hits that age of incapacitation because it won't do her a whole lot of good to make Kaido look like an old man thing if he can still hit hard. But what very much works in Bonnie's favor even more so than Sugar actually, is that Bonnie has some decent skills in the area of speed and stealth, making it much more likely, in fact I would say almost a given, for her to make physical contact with Kaido. And to be clear it was already pretty damn likely for Sugar to be able to do the same thing, so I don't think there's any denying that Jewelry Bonnie can beat Kaido. And just for some expansion on this idea of weird left field devil-free powers, there are other examples of these that I'm sure will be brought up in discussion, one of which would be Peronis Horohoronomi, which would be extraordinarily effective against most characters, but not so much Kaido. He rather unfortunately has the Usopp benefit of being overly negative in his standard state of being. And someone else who might be brought up would be Bola Hancock because her Merimeronomi will instantly decimate most men, in fact most people in general. And Kaido hasn't exactly been shown as, you know, being adverse to some lady company, so he may be susceptible to it, but he also may not. It's a pretty big question mark which is why I'm not including Hancock. I'm certainly including Bonnie though, and she makes up the fourth of our spectacular six, a predominantly female six as of right now, and we're going to continue that trend with one of the most unlikely characters imaginable being Princess Shirahoshi. So this mermaid gets heavily, heavily underestimated by most fans, including myself, because it's very easy to forget that she is no mere mermaid, and Shirahoshi is in fact the ancient weapon Poseidon, a weapon which has been said to possess the capabilities of destroying entire islands with ease. However, such hearsay has no place here. Thankfully though, we have seen this weapon in action through the ability to summon a legion of the biggest boss-seekings we have ever seen in the series. Powerful enough to carry the Noah, a construct almost as big as Fishman Island itself. In fact, many of these individual sea-kings dwarf Fishman Island in comparison, which is important to mention because it also means that Shirahoshi would be effective on any island within this world, because islands are absolutely meaningless in the face of these sea-kings. So what we would have here is essentially a much larger-scale Jack vs. Zunisha situation. Kaido is the strongest creature in the world, but this is an ancient weapon, and if Poseidon's full wrath was focused on Kaido, he is going to be defeated. And that is why Shirahoshi is joining this merry band, who I've now noticed all have primarily pink or red hair, which that's kind of fun, isn't it? In fact, maybe in general we should just be much more wary of pink-haired characters than we currently are. And you know what, in fact, for anybody who's still concerned about Suga not being able to defeat Kaido, well, bam. Look at that, pink-haired Suga. Absolutely unstoppable. But our sixth and final character who can beat Kaido is going to be our fan-favorite Trafalgar lore. And this is because there is no reason whatsoever why lore should not be able to defeat almost any other character in the series. His devil fruit is beyond broken. He can chop people up, steal their hearts, body swap them, and leave them in any number of positions at his mercy. And because of that factor, he's a very difficult character to manage. I still quite frankly don't see why he could not have beaten Del Flamingo on Dressfrozer. It's just one of those things where Oda had to ignore this incredibly ridiculous power in favor of having Luffy save the day. There really is nothing that would be able to stop lore beyond lore himself. I mean, his rooms do have a range, but that range is massive, like the size of an entire mountain, sort of massive. The rooms don't get blocked by anything physical, and even fully coated arm and taki is somehow incapable of preventing lore from slicing up room-based opponents. All he has to do is get within the range of a mountain's worth of space between him and Kaido, and the emperor is done. Of course, that's never going to happen because fictional story reasons, but that does not change the fact that lore can defeat Kaido and quite probably anyone else in the series. And there we have it, six characters who are capable of taking down the emperor, many of whom are not the most prominent characters within the series, but that is their core advantage. Kaido more than likely cannot be overcome via the avenue of power, which makes Kaido almost the worst possible matchup for traditionally strong individuals like, say, Sakazuki, because Kaido is that path's pinnacle. So generally, it will take the direct equal to that sort of strength, an unexpected and frankly outrageous devil fruit power, or a living ancient weapon to bring this beast down. So that's my list of six characters, feel free to scrutinize as you wish. But what do you guys think? Please do leave your thoughts in the comments below or even join my Discord server. And if you'd like to see more videos like this and please do go and check out some of my other content or even subscribe to the channel for more glorious One Piece business, upload it straight into your YouTube feeds. But for now, this has been the Grand Line Review and I'll see you next time.