However, he sometimes appears to forget about this particular downside. Luffy, of course, also suffers the same weaknesses to water, like Fish-Man Karate and Seastone, as other Devil Fruit users. Attempting to go beyond this length can cause the user to bleed and be at risk of ripping. Additionally, rubber has a maximum limit to how far it can stretch in the first SBS, Oda stated that Luffy's maximum stretching distance is " 72 Gomu Gomus". After the time-skip though, the extra movement became unnecessary, and Luffy is able to stretch easily. Initially, Luffy's body was similar to a rubber band, requiring him to use excessive motion to "throw" an attack. Luffy's elasticity reaching its limits, and starts to tear. Luffy, however, has adapted his fighting style to minimize this risk. One major risk of Luffy's powers is that his stretched limbs take a moment to unstretch back into place, leaving him vulnerable to attacks in the moments when his limbs are stretched, as Buggy and Kuro both demonstrated early on in the series. In the anime, Luffy has used his stretching abilities to inhale great amounts of air to thus exhale a big gust of wind this application of his powers was used to blow away Marigold's poisonous vapor from her venom spit and Magellan's poison breath.ĭespite all the great advantages Luffy gets by using his fruit, there are a number of weaknesses. His elastic properties also grant him some resistance towards underwater pressure, allowing him to fight while surrounded by an underwater environment. As such, Luffy has a bigger appetite than the average human, eating more than anyone else in his crew and always digesting it before anyone else is hungry again. The fruit enables all parts of the consumer's body to behave like rubber, including organs. This gives Luffy the option of several jumping and airborne attacks that would have been disadvantageous to most other people. Luffy has also shown a limited ability of moving in mid-air, by grabbing onto something with an extended limb and pulling himself away from what could have been a fatal attack. Combined with Haki, his power is increased even more. A stretched limb can also be used to store potential energy like a stretched spring, increasing the velocity by stretching his arm back resulting in increased power. Stretching also allows the user to drastically increase the range of what would otherwise be considered a powerful close-range attack, turning it into a devastating mid-range or long-range attack. The user's ability to stretch and twist like rubber to extreme lengths not only makes him immune to injuries that originate from such, but it also allows him to rebound, which can give him a great advantage in and out of battle. Thanks to Luffy's own creativity, both in and out of combat, this fruit has consistently proven itself to be among the most formidable, versatile, and unpredictable within the Paramecia class. His immunity to electricity also allows him to hit Enel, the user of the Goro Goro no Mi (an electricity Logia) without needing Haki. Luffy's rubber body not only allows him to hit Enel, whose body is made of electricity, but also prevents Luffy from suffering electric shocks.įurthermore, thanks to rubber's natural insulating properties, the user is also immune to electrical attacks, such as those from the Goro Goro no Mi, Electro or Zeus. Situations like falls from great heights and heavy collisions that would kill a normal person end up not being lethal or even painful, and certain traps and hazards are rendered ineffective considering the user's enhanced flexibility. The user becomes almost completely immune to blunt damage, including hand-to-hand combat, blunt weapons, bullets, and even cannonballs, all of which will just bounce off from his skin.
Unlike most other Devil Fruits, the effects of the Gomu Gomu no Mi are always active, making the user's body permanently rubbery. The fruit's major strength, as demonstrated by Luffy, is that the user's body can stretch, bend, bounce, inflate, and twist like rubber, even when the user himself is nullified. While its final design has the characteristic Devil Fruit swirls all over it, the fruit was initially drawn without them in the first version of Romance Dawn.
Its overall appearance greatly resembles a Yubari King. The Gomu Gomu no Mi is a violet, spherical shaped fruit with a stem sprouting out of the top, with swirls that go in a curly "S" like-pattern. The Gomu Gomu no Mi in Shanks' treasure chest. In the Viz Manga, 4Kids and Funimation dubs, it is called the Gum-Gum Fruit, "gum" being a soft, cohesive substance designed for chewing, with elastic properties.
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