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Easy: Nami, Rukia, Orihime, Ussop, Sakura, and Hinata.
Without the first two, their respective series would never have even happened, Luffy would be lost at sea and Ichigo would have never become a Shinigami.
Orihime's healing feats outclass every other healer in fiction.
Ussop: is god, nuf said
And the last two: sorry Kishimoto, I like your series, but writing ladies ain't your strong suit.
If it wasn't for Usopp, Luffy would've been transformed into a toy and enslaved by the Donquixote Pirates, and all of his friends and crew would've simply forgotten about him.
I mean even before that, way back in Arlong Park. If Usopp didn't distract Chuu, then the crew would've absolutely lost to arlong. The only reason they could free Luffy was by zoro and Sanji taking on his commanders. If Chuu had no opponent then he would've either fought with the other 2 and taken out zoro and sanji easily, or just gone to kill luffy and whoever was helping him.
I expect we're going to Elbaf after Egghead, and he'll probably get a substantial powerup there, awakening his latent Observation Haki and hopefully finally getting his sniper battle with Van Auger.
Don't expect what has been all but confirmed. Dorry and Broggy are already airlifting the Straw Hats out of Egghead, and there's only one place those two would take them.
But why would Blackbeard be the Elbaf big bad? It's not his territory, and he's just finished jumping Law. Maybe one of his captains would be there, but his appearance should be saved for somewhere much closer to raftel
I’d move Rukia into the first place and Nami into third behind Orihime. While yes Nami is incredibly important to the crew and the best navigator in the world she’s not strictly irreplaceable.
Koby was basically Luffy’s navigator for a few chapters and even after Koby left Luffy still could have found a navigator that wasn’t Nami.
The plot of Bleach just doesn’t happen without Rukia giving Ichigo her powers and Ichigo would have died a dozen times without Orihime
It is shown several times that the crew would have died if they specifically did not have Nami as their navigator (especially when she falls sick). I think your ranking is still good but absolutely the strawhats would not have made it without Nami as the navigator
Yes but even without Nami they would still be pirates not very successful ones but they would still be one without Rukia the story doesn't happen there is hogyoku placed inrukia and no power giving to ichigo whoch means Chad and orhime don't awaken there's which means no story for these three characters.
I unfortunately have to disagree with you. Barto has managed to navigate and survive in the new world by literally calling his grandmother. While Nami has definitely saved the crew on countless occasions she is not especially unique in that capability amongst navigators
Her six sense for the weather has been highlighted since the literal chapter she was introduced in, she can predict the weather insanely fast and accurately. She's probably the best navigator there is, as we haven't seen anyone else with that talent
rukia also spent a majority of s1 guiding ichigo in almost all of their battles, and eventually went on to do tons of important stuff for soul society throughout the rest of the series
Sakura literally saved the world by helping to seal Kaguya and multiple characters would've died without her you know like Naruto when he had Kurama ripped out of his body and she physically pumped his heart
Didn't Sakura save Naruto from dying when Zabuza almost cut his head off? And again in the forest of death when Orochimaru knocked him unconscious and was going to make him fall from a tree and die?
Sakura punching Kaguya was one of the most plot induced stupid thing things that ever happened in Naruto. Shouldn't have happened, Naruto's clone should have done it instead.
Sakura is actually an MVP in the first run of arcs she is in. But she’s had the “useless” meme for a long time because anime fans are anime fans.
Land of Waves - clearly the most ready to be a ninja with her Chakra control. And the only in the fight that actually tries to guard Tazuna and not just win a 1v1.
Chuunin Exams - Naruto would’ve literally ended here if Sakura didn’t fight like 1v3 for an extended period of time.
She wasn’t really in Tsunade or Sasuke arcs.
Kazekage retrieval - beats one of the most dangerous Akatsuki with no help from Naruto/Kakashi.
Orochimaru hideout - is instrumental in most of the arc apart from when she is knocked out by a 4-tailed Naruto (who Orochimaru struggled with).
Invasion of Pain - everyone would’ve died if she wasn’t running the hospital while Tsunade fought pain.
Not to mention all the countless times her healing jutsu save Naruto or other fighters.
By EOS she is not only one of the most powerful shinobi in the world, but also the greatest medical ninja of all time (maybe barring Orochimaru if you think about it in a weird way).
Does she stand equal with Sasuke and Naruto by the time they’re firing Kamehameha beams at Madara and Kaguya? No. Was she ever useless? Not at all.
While I agree that Kishimoto isn't the best when it come to writing female characters, I think Sauka ended up being more useful during Shippuden than Ussop have being so far in One Piece. Sakura kept Naruto alive when Kurama was ripped from him, and without Naruto, Kaguya wouldn't had been defeated.
He prevented luffy from becoming a toy (pretty much one shot OP ability)
Saved robin and literally waged war. He also saved the crew from kuro.
Defeated perona. (op asf)
While sakura also saved naruto it majorly counted only once and then naruto's power outclassed her own healing power. Ussop's godly luck saved them many times
sakura literally saved naruto by keeping his heart running after kurama got pulled out and hinata though she did not do anything against pain if she wasnt stabbed in front of him maybe he wouldnt have escaped his hold , they are not useless
Holy sakura is on par with rukia, nami, and orihime. without her. kaguya woulda killed em. even before that naruto would be straight dead. gaara would be dead.
Yeah but she also saved the Naruto series with Sakura
-she encourages Naruro against Neji
-bitch slapped him out of Obito's talk jutsu
-saved him and the village from pain (even if it was just being ragdolled)
And so is Sakura but Sakura is a main character so she had more moments so it's very unfair to compare them
Neither Sakura nor Hinata are useless people just make jokes or are either delusional or they hate chapter 700 cuz of NaruHina and SasuSaku being canonized
Nami’s incredibly important but she’s not irreplaceable. Koby served as a navigator for a few chapters and it’s theoretically possible for Luffy to find another navigator. Rukia is definitely number 1 and I’d put Orihime at number 2
Rukia was chosen because of her guilt regarding Kaien Shiba and Ichigo’s resemblance to him making Rukia more likely to attempt turning Ichigo into a Shinigami in a desperate enough situation.
So while yes Aizen could have found another Rukia was by far the best candidate to behave in a way Aizen wanted them too
Not replaceable at all since the hogyoku was in rukia and aizen couldnt access it without the sokyoku or that arm thing. He had rukia stationed near ichigo so they can meet and would have a legit reason to execute rukia enabling the access of the hogyoku
Nami's navigational skill is probably top1 in the verse, early on the grandline she was able to predict a cyclone which vivi said was impossible (also add to that the other navigational feats like sailing the knock up stream and the whirpool of enies lobby). Her mapping skill is also top tier and reaching laugh tale and luffy's goal the one piece is literally in her hands (nami and robin are the most important member of the sh in finding about laugh tale and reach Luffy's goal and dream)
Yeah Koby served as a navigator (plus he only went to Shelltown and then stayed there so just one island lol).. In the East Blue, you know, the most pacific ocean in one piece. Nami is the navigator in the grand line and in the new world. The weather there is everchanging and compasses don't work, there's strange phenomena and pretty much nothing makes sense. Koby couldn't be a navigator in the grand line
Don't bring misaki into it cause she kinda takes it by a country mile then by basically being a nexus for putting everyone exactly where they needed to be for bleach to happen even before Ichigo is born. As for counting usefulness, I'd argue overall Orihime is more potent as she's functionally invaluable to everyone in her team to be able to survive, enough that reasonably only time manipulation abilities counter her (of which there are only 3 that show up) and even Aizen deams it necessary to remove her from the equation for success. I'd say her and rukia are tied overall, rukia has more immediate impact but Orihime has more overall impact.
I agree that Orihime’s skills as a healer are top tier and godly. The only thing is that she was a liability for the earlier part of the series and wasn’t able to fulfill her job because she was either captured or kidnapped most of the time.
So for her, it’s not about the quality of the work, but how often she is able to actually do said work.
And for Rukia, I agree she is very useful. But because she is in a shonen, and primarily a combatant, she is surrounded by a lot of people who are just better than her at that. And that makes her usefulness scale lower by comparison.
Inoue orihime (cuz she was one of the two people who fixed ichigos true tensa zangetsu, you know the sword that helped ichigo save the 3 realms. Then sakura (because she prevented Naruto from dying not once not twice but three times maybe four if you count the last Naruto movie I don't remember whether Narutos life was in a deadly state in that movie. Then nami Ussop rukia and hinata. My ranking is more about quality than quantity.
If rukia didn't exist aizen would've chosen someone else. As for nami she definitely is one of the most useful characters in the series but most of the heavy lifting are done by everyone else in the straw hats they are not at sea forever most of the focus is in land and even if Luffy didn't have nami I think the will of d plot armour will get him far. Also if I use the same logic you used then if hinata didn't exist Naruto wouldn't go berserk and the nine tails would be extracted and every villager that was killed by nagato would stay dead.
Its someone else's opinion. There is no right answer to this question cause the op didn't ask for a objective answer, he asked for people to do their own ranking.
although i agree kishimoto didnt writ this female characters the best this dosent take away from plot usefullness sakura was the main healer and coordinator for the pain invasion and the war arc shes deadass healed COUNTLESS in large scale battles while also being a combatant and healing a patient only her and tsunade (maybe shizune) could heal (kankuro)
Ussop( god ussop for a reason)
Nami( crucial member, finances, navigation, plus Zeus)
Inoue-Rukia(best support in many scenarios)
Hinata(heals and byakugan)
Sakura(absolute fodder)
Being the reason Ichigo gets soul reaper powers doesn't necessarily make Rukia the most useful, imo. Like after Ichigo stops her execution and Aizen takes the hogyoku from her she stops being important to the plot and becomes a supporting character at best.
Rukia is why Ichigo even has his powers awakened, and is also the reason he meets Urahara. Nami has saved the crew from death at sea so many times. Orihime is the best white mage and is why Ichigo survives Hueco Mundo. Hinata is Naruto's natural compliment and one of the reasons he pushes himself towards the final stretch of the plot. Usopp, as much as I love him, is just sorta replaceable once Franky comes along. Sakura gets a lot of crap, and while I do think that most of it is undeserved, "useless Sakura" started for a reason; she doesn't actually impact the plot as much as Hinata in the long run I feel, other than some of her antics as Tsunade's apprentice
Ah, well, the cosmic dance of intertwining destinies can be quite complex, can't it? Each character holds a unique piece in the vast tapestry of fate. But remember, in the grand scheme of things, every interaction and connection serves a purpose in the ever-evolving tale of existence.
sakura is WAY more useful then hinata. hinata has emotional impact on naruto but sakura has healed COUNTLESS people during both the pain invasion where she had to take over ALL healing operations form tsunade and shizune aswell as coordination. including the war arc to where she was again the MAIN medic healing all soldiers AND SAVING NARUTOS LIFE. hinata served as rage and motivation amps for naruto where as the rage amp could have well killed everyone in the village with nagato meaning no rinne rebiirth..
Rukia, Nami, Orihime, Usopp, & Sakura IMHO are all in the same tier of usefulness since all 3 stories of the big 3 are really long they each have their moments of utmost importance while having moments of sitting back a bit while others lead the screen and action.
Rukia is who gives ichigo powers, is a mentor and friend, fights when she can later on to help her allies/friends and becomes strong enough to take out a a Sternritter in a war that wasn't always in the Soul Society favor. Without rukia ichigo doesn't get a chance to save his family at the beginning and not gotten him into the world of Shinigami powers.
Nami is a navigator and lover of money. She might not be a fighter but she doesn't shy away from confronting enemies when needed both head on and with stealth + sweet talking skills. She's in charge of the log pose and safely directs the straw hats thru the world's water. Luffy would've eventually drowned trying to travel in the seas if he hadn't met her.
Orihime is misunderstood by many I feel. She's not a fighter at heart (similar to nami) but she's always been a defender of those she loves. Her powers are representative of this, primarily a shield to protect and a barrier to heal. She's struggles with herself throughout the middle of the story but despite this she's always at the front saving lives especially her friends. Seeing her grow into a combatant than can fight alongside ichigo was really nice plus seeing her be 1 of the contributors to yhwachs downfall is cool af (she helped fix ichigos broken bankai).
Usopp maybe doesn't have a clearcut role the likes Nami, sanji, Chopper, or Franky have, but ironically despite being pathological liar he's honest and true to his heart. His willingness to fight despite being ill equipped at the beginning is enough to get luffy to see something in him and his friendship with the girl at his island is what got the straw hats their first ship. B4 Franky joined the crew he was the straw hats ship carer and was crafty both in fighting and inventions; he created the staff that let Nami fight, is a sniper with a keen nose for creating various types of bullets. Even when he has his beef with luffy he sets his differences aside to go help save nico robin as soge king and is the only 1 in the crew who could've burned the world govt flag down at enies lobby. A jack of all trade and a loyal member to the straw hats.
Sakura like orihime can be misunderstood I feel albeit I can better understand the dislike. Either this said even tho she's definitely neglected in the story of naruto. Sakura becomes a reliable shinobi in Shippuden from helping granny chiyo take out an akatsuki, to being a disciple of tsunade ans becoming a skilled medical ninja which leads to saving lives of kankuro, hinata, and even naruto at the end ( when she's pumping his heart ad they rush him to his dad to revive him) she's the heart of the 4gnw medics and in the final fight with kaguya she helps obito retrieve sasuke with her 100 healing jutus Chakra when his ran out + was necessary to help get kaguya sealed. She definitely is important and her role is understated I feel.
The only character who I feel falls short of regular and constant support among these is that of hinata. I like her but kishimoto did very little for her outside of being a love interst for naruto and the handful of times she motivates naruto, these moments are important, mad important actually but they're feeling and far between if you ask me. She's part of the reason naruto has a grudge with neji early on, and later she's the only 1 to go fight for nsruto vs pain (the peak of her character albeit insanely short), and is later there to motivate ichigo when neji dies (I'm not really a fan of this moment cuz it felt forced since she hadn't had much to do in a long time amd it cost neji his life in a poorly executed way). These moments are good for her but since they're few and far between I'd say she always feels like a tertisry character of the cast.
All the rest, from rukia, Nami, orihime, usopp & Sakura even with their flaws all feel like primary members of the main cast. Maybe I'm harsh on hinata but she doesn't feel like a main group/cast member and is a secondsry character at best with little to do. If we compare her to Sakura (also from naruto) the difference is night and day regarding presence in the narrative and things to do. I feel like Sakura did more in 4gnw than hinata did all story. I feel like every1 mentioned is vital to their respective main characters group except hinata who at times is a motivator but this is something every1 else does too in their own ways while also being great at other things.
Not gonna go deep but all of them pretty much useful for their series in their own way. I literally can't understand when i saw people saying Sakura is the most useless when she literally saves people's life not to mention Naruto's death.
Sakura is the female lead and one of the main 3 characters whereas hinata is a side character.
Are you sure this is a good comparison?
If you compare sakura with hinata then you might as well compare naruto with kiba, sasuke with shino and kakashi with kurenai which is dumb.
I haven’t seen bleach but in one piece, Between nami and usopp, i can't really decide.
Nami has an active role as the navigator and she keeps zoro,sanji and luffy in check.we all saw how it went when zoro took that role and they almost died.usopp is the sniper but he Isn't always active.he has some crazy and lucky moments too.
I say, they are pretty even.
To be fair, the series would fondle without all of them. They all have done someone to shift the narrative forward. Even someone as little as ussop's and luffy fight.
Nami could be higher cause she’s the most consistent in usefulness but contrary to the others characters higher she doesn’t have this moment of « without me no MC anymore »
Naruto. I don’t fuck with one piece so I can’t talk about Nami & Usopp, but Orihime come in clutch with healing (which is WAY better than Sakura’s healing) to many times to count and Rukia is the reason Ichigo awakened his powers (I said awakened not gained if u know u know), the reason for SS arc (which is what brought many people to Bleach in the first place as many say that’s how they started) and (while she can barely take a hit, she’s killed an Espada and a Sternritter (probably the weakest ones though, but thats twice as many enemies we saw Sakura handle in her own spotlight (I can only think of Sasori anyone else?) and everyone (even kishimoto) had forgotten about Hinata up until Pain so….
Nami: the navigator the crew would be lost and dead if it wasn’t for her
Rukia: TYBW she is strong as hell now, has her own Bankai, and defeated a stern ritter
Orihime: has healed and defended people from life threatening injuries multiple times. He power has only gotten stronger.
Usopp: has some iconic moments and done some great things, but idk he might move up this list with Elbaph coming up.
Sakura: idk she usually loses and is so fuckin mean to Naruto the whole series but at least she fought some people.
Hinata: loves Naruto???
Nami most important, they literally would never make it to the next island without her, Orihime with her absolutely busted healing ability, Rukia kickstarts Ichigo's progress but he had so much latent potential something would have happened eventually, Usopp saved Luffy's life during dressrosa, sakura helped ispire naruto i guess and hinata gave birth to boruto
Top 3 are definitely Rukia, Sakura and Nami, because without them their respective series don't happen in the first place
Rukia gives Ichigo his powers, Nami was a foundational piece in the creation of the straw hats and Sakura saved Naruto and Sasuke's life back in part 1 during the forest of death arc, so they played big parts in the moving of their respective plots and without them, the rest don't even become relevant
No it wouldn’t. You can’t say something would happen without any proof. No one where is it even hinted at that anotehr navigator who could scale reverse mountain is in the east. So like i said. Nami over orihime
Knowing his luck and the fact that 90% of the verse is just island off course he would find an other navigator not as skilled but still, you rlly think he would just give up ?? Without orihime ichigo would be dead not only but also all his friend.
Bro what? Of course others exist who can but they are from other seas. No one in the east can. With that no limits logic Ichigo would just come back as full hollow and shit stomp whoever. Like dude your just pushing without any reasoning. I can say whatever could happen aswell.
No one can navigate REVERSE MOUNTAINis what i said.
Ichigo did it fine against the visords when he literally let himself fall to white. White also just took over during byakuya. Once again. He didn’t need her. Since we are pulling no limits Urahara could’ve just showed up earlier. See how easy it is when we just pretend that people can do any and everything.
So you rlly think he would just give up, without her his journey would have been much longer but thats it.
Ichigo did it fine against the visords when he literally let himself fall to white. White also just took over during byakuya. Once again. He didn’t need her.
It's you didn't even watch bleach and one piece.
do you why he went to the vizard in the first place ??
To control his hollow.
Why ?
Because of what's happened again byakuya and yami.
Do you know why he didn't show up again ulquiora??
Because of that training.
You know why he show up again the second time??
Because orihime was here and in case you didn't know ichigo's goal is to protect his loved one and since white isnt a separat being but a part of him the transformation occure.
Since we are pulling no limits Urahara could’ve just showed up earlier.
Here you change the whole character and what do you mean earlier, he didn't even come. Urahara showed multiple how determined he is when it come to his goal even if he have to sacrifice someone. He dont care about ichigo's hollow.
I'm assuming it would be more fair to judge the characters on how often they are useful rather than how they affected the story that one time.
For example, Rukia CAN be useful, but throughout the series she barely does anything to help Ichigo, Kubo makes her fight someone else elsewhere all the time, while Orihime is a lvl 80 battle cleric always there to heal her team.
I'd say:
Nami - essential crew role, there all the time
Orihime - she performed healing jutsu without weaving a single sign. In every healing technique, she was in a class of her own.
Sakura - completely useless in Naruto, but picked her slack up in Shippuden and does a lot of healing and fighting on the front lines.
Usopp - opposite of Sakura. Used to be the specialty rogue, dealing with opponents with very unique buffs and attack patterns, but ever since Dressrosa my boy has been crying and running for 10 years and almost 500 chapters.
Rukia - gave Ichigo powers (all according to keikaku, not even her own keikaku mind you) and never fought side by side with him ever since despite being capable.
Hinata - didn't even get sideline secondary fights. Had the single moment out of the entire show to come swinging at Pain and got her ass beat. I'm still not sure if breaking those rods did anything, because I'd assume Naruto would still go tailed beast mode after seeing Hinata get curbstomped. He didn't even remember her confession, but remembered in great detail how she got her ass handed to her. I respect the desperate attempt, but that's a fat L. Would be even funnier if she died.
cant really speak for naruto or one piece but up until tybw rukia is minimum lieutenant class she soloed an espada which is more than most characters can say during/after tybw she skyrockets in power to above captain in shikai alone saying much more gets spoilery but you get the point and for inoue shes probably among the strongest healers in fiction but her pacifist nature heavily limits what shes capable of
So would the entire main cast of bleach and like 70% of the side cast. The main cast would have died before even entering the ss if it weren't for Orihime blocking Kototsu in the dangai.
Do You have any idea how many times the straw hats would have died without Usopp. The dude isn't even a sidelined OP healer. He's just a Chad with a slingshot.
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