By Jorge Paiz

It has been a question asked by many nerds and geeks for quite sometime. Still many wonder who is better pirates or ninjas? Now most of you may be thinking that this question may be over stated. how ever let’s brig the question and put it on a much grander scale in the anime world. With non other then two of the most popular anime known to anime fans, One Piece and Naruto . What might these two anime have in common you ask? Well One Piece is a an anime about pirates and Naruto is and anime bout Ninjas. however both these Pirates and Ninjas are different from the ones you probably read about is a kid in books such as Treasure Island. These Ninjas and Pirates posses unique and powerful abilities. In this article we will put these powers and abilities to the test against each other using theoretical statistics based on scientific notation.

Now for this battle I’m not going to use all the band of pirates and ninja villages from both anime series. What I will do use the 8 members of the Straw Hat Pirates a.k.a. Luffy’s crew and The current top 8 members from the Village hidden in the leaves. The reason being is because if we were to use every crew and Ninja village such as The Red haired Pirates, The Hidden mist Village,The White Beared Pirates, Or The Hidden Sand . Is because doing so would lead to endless speculations and Outcomes. so to simplify it I narrowed it down to the two main groups of both anime series. This will revolve around a series of sub matches between two different individual characters from each series. Based on who wins the most will declare who is the deadlier of advisarys Ninjas or Pirates?

Match # 1 Naruto Uzumaki vs. Monkey D. Luffy

Naruro Uzumaki

Height:5’4

Weight:112 pds

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

All Directions Shuriken
Big Ball Rasengan
Big Ball Spiralling Serial Zone Spheres
Chakra Transfer Technique
Clone Body Blow
Clone Spinning Heel Drop
Combination Transformation
Continuous Tailed Beast Balls
Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
Fire Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet
Frog Kata
Front Lotus
Harem Technique
Hiding with Camouflage Technique
Leaf Gale
Leaf Strong Whirlwind
Leaf Whirlwind
Mini-Rasenshuriken
Multiple Shadow Clone Technique
Naruto Uzumaki Combo
Naruto Uzumaki Two Thousand Combo
Negative Emotions Sensing
New Sexy Technique
One Thousand Years of Death
Pachinko Technique
Rasengan
Sage Art: Big Ball Rasengan
Sage Art: Many Ultra-Big Ball Spiralling Serial Spheres
Sage Art: Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan
Sage Mode
Sage Technique: Spiralling Serial Spheres
Sexy Technique
Shadow Clone Technique
Shadow Shuriken Technique
Spiralling Absorption Sphere
Spiralling Strife Spheres
Strong Fist
Summoning Technique (Toads)
Summoning: Food Cart Destroyer Technique
Tailed Beast Ball
Tailed Beast Chakra Arms
Tailed Beast Rasengan
Tailed Beast Shockwave
Torii Seal
Twin Rasengan
Twin Rasenshuriken
Typhoon Water Vortex Technique
Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan
Ultra-Many Spiralling Serial Spheres
Uzumaki Formation
Water Release: Water Gun
Wind Release: Drilling Air Bullet
Wind Release: Rasengan
Wind Release: Rasenshuriken
Wind Release: Toad Gun
Wind Release: Toad Oil Bullet
Wind Release: Toad Oil Flame Bullet

Weapons: Kunai Knives, Shuriken

Weaknesses: Malle Attacks

VS.

Monkey D. Luffy

Height: 5’6

Weight:115 pds

Warrior Type: Pirate

Skills:

Gom-Gom Pistol
Gom-Gom Hammer
Gom-Gom Baloon
Gom-Gom Bazuka
Gom-Gom Battle Axe
Gom-Gom Nail
Gom -Gom Whip
Gear 2
Gear 3
Observation Haki
Armament Haki
Color of the Supreme King Haki
Immunity to Poison

Weakness:Hypnoses and can he not swim

Outcome: DRAW! The Outcome of this match was draw on the count of that both these combatants harness a Large amount of energy, as well as exhaust a lot of energy in the midst of combat . Naruto can harness a great amount of chakra, In which he uses to execute all of hi Jutsu techniques. Not only does Naruto relies on not just his own chakra but on the chakra of the nine tailed demon fox which was sealed with in him by his father win he was an infant. It was thanks to the training of Killer Bee who had the eight Tailed Jinjuriki with in him Naruto was able to learn how to become one with the Nin Tailed demon fox there for giving him the ability to transform into the the tailed beast. However despite the fact that Naruto had an arsenal of Justsu techniques as well as the chakra of the nine tails. There is two oppositions that Luffy has which counters all of Naruto’s ability’s and that comes from Luffy’s Gom-Gom techniques.

Since Luffy’s Gom- Gom techniques were given to him when he ate from the Gom-Gom Devil Fruit his body is able to become rubber. There for he can expand any limb and any part of his body. This gives him the ability to absorb any malee attacks that naruto can though at him as well as any attacks with kunai or shuriken. The second opposition is Luffy’s Haki techniques such as Obseervation Haki which gives him a sixth sense that can read a person moves and detect their presence. Therefore Luffy can read all of Naruto moves before he can execute them and since both have enhanced strength and speed and cant beat beaten by punches or jutsu both would exhaust each other out making it a draw.

Match # 2 Roronoa Zorro VS. Sai

Sai

Height:5’6

Weight:117 pds

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Ink Clone Technique
Ink Flush
Ink Mist Technique
Sealing Technique: Tiger Vision Staring Bullet
Super Beast Imitating Drawing

Weapons: Flash Bombs, Tanto

Weaknesses: Melee attacks

VS.

Roronoa Zorro

Height:5’6

Weight:140 pds

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Kyutoryu
Kiki Kyutoryu: Asura
Armament Haki
Observation Haki

Weapons: Katana x2, Meito; Hana Arashi, Marine cutlass x2, Meito; Wado Ichimonji, Sandai Kitetsu, Meito; Shusui

Weaknesses: No sense of Direction

Outcome: Roronoa Zorro wins! The result of this battle was really Zorro’s favor, though Sai may have some very powerful and Unique Jutsus there is one variable that made Zorro have the upper hand in match or better yet the upper blade. What made the difference was Zorro’s incredible amount of tolerance for pain. This gives him a lot of stamina and endurance. Not only that he has demonstrated countless times in many one piece episodes that he has a tolerance for pain like when Dracule Mihawk’s black sword was slashing his chest or When he had to cut into his own legs to free himself from Mr. 3′s wax creation. Not to Mention when Mr. 1 two buzz saws were being compressed into his chest or when Enel constantly struck him with lightning. You have to be God to survive that. Then there’s CP9′s Rankyaku attacks and when he took Kuma’s Ursus Shock Attack. The one that really takes the cake is when he took a direct kick from the giant Oars. This match with Sai is like putting and emo kid against a masochist. The Masochist being Zorro of course.

Other than that Zorro has incredible strength, hes strong enough to lift a building. Also any sword put in his hand he can wield as his own. So with him disarming Sai of his Tanto, along with the Kyutoryu and Kiki Kyutoryu: Asura technique alowing him to have ten arms into heads with all his swords combined with his speed sai would be slaughtered.

Match # 3 Rock Lee vs. Sanji

Rock Lee

Height:5’6

Weight:120 pds

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Double Dynamic Entry
Drunken Fist
Dynamic Entry
Eight Gates
Daytime Tiger
Little Toe Attack
Morning Peacock
Front Lotus
Leaf Coiling Whirlwind
Leaf Gale
Leaf Great Whirlwind
Leaf Rising Wind
Leaf Strong Whirlwind
Leaf Whirlwind
Reverse Lotus
Sexy Technique
Shadow of the Dancing Leaf
Springtime of Youth Full Power
Strong Fist

Weapons: Bō, Nunchaku,Tonfa, Military Rations Pill

Weaknesses: techniques take tole on his body

VS.

Sanji

Height:5’11

Weight:140 pds

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Black Leg Style
Blue Walk
Sky Walk
Diable Jambe
Diable Jambe: Flambage Shot
Hell Memories
Mouton Shot
Anti-Manner Kick Course
Parage Shoot
Frit Assorti
Bien Cuit: Grill Shot
Poêle à Frire : Spectre
Hocho Sabaki
Epluchage
Armament Haki

Weapons: Kitchen Knives

Weaknesses: Melee attacks

Outcome: Winner Rock Lee! After a careful study of both Combatants, it is clear that both have great expert skills in hand to hand combat. Also Rock Lee and Sanji use techniques that put a strain on there body. In the end it all came down to who’s body was more durable and who’s trump card gave them the advantage. Rock Lees eight gates proved trumpet Sanji’s Diable Jambi. Though the Diable Jambi may increase the strength of Sanji’s Kicks, along with the increase of strength and speed by the Armament Haki. Rock Lee’s eight gates make him stronger then the Kage for a brief period of time. Though he has only shown to open only up to five gates, it makes his body so stronger hes practically invincible and with the executing move of forward lotus as the icing on the cake Sanji can not stand a chance. Also even if Rock lee did not use the gate his drunken fist style would be annoying to deal with. Not to mention you would want to hide the keg if you ever invited Rock Lee to a house party otherwise your house would be gone.

Match# 4 Sakura VS. Nami

Sakura Haruno

Height:5’2

Weight:100 pds

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Chakra Enhanced Strength
Chakra Scalpel
Cherry Blossom Impact
Delicate Illness Extraction Technique
Demonic Illusion: Tree Binding Death
Four-Corner Sealing Barrier (Anime only)
Mystical Palm Technique

Weapons: Antidote, Lightning Barrel, Military Rations Pill,Poison, Senbon, Smoke Bomb,Tantō

Weaknesses: Sausuke (Yes I know it’s pathetic)

VS.

Nami

Height:5’6 1/2

Weight:130 pds

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Art of Weather
Mirage Tempo
Shiawase Punch
Impact

Weapons: Clima-Tact

Weaknesses: Melee attacks

Outcome: Nami Wins! The reason are Obvious Nami has the ability to manipulate weather as well as clone her self with the mist. What makes this battle for her a given is that she ca turn invisible which Sakura has no way of getting past that. This gives Nami the perfect oppurtunity to pull of a sneak attack. Heck she doesn’t even need invisibility she just need to strike Sakura with lighting or blow her away with a gust of wind with her CLima-Tact.

Match #5 Usopp Vs. Ino

VS.

Usopp

Height:5’9 1/2

Weight:150 pds

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Skilled shooter
Great strength
Black Kabuto chomping grass ( when using Black Kabuto sling shot)

Weapons: Black Kabuto

Weaknesses: Melee attacks

Ino Yamanaka

Height:5’3

Weight:101 pds

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Chakra Hair Trap Technique
Formation Ino–Shika–Chō
Four-Corner Sealing Barrier
Mind Body Disturbance Technique
Mind Body Switch Technique
Mind Clone Switch Technique
Mystical Palm Technique

Weapons: Makibishi,Tantō, Kunai , Shuriken

Weaknesses: Sausuke and Sai (Yeah I know it’s not as bad as Sakura though )

Outcome: Ino Wins! Ino’s mind body Disturbance technique gives her the advantage to do just about anything with Usopp. I mean lets face it all he has is ammo for his slingshot which can easily be doadged. He’s pretty much In’s bitch in this battle. well that’s one man she won the heart , mind and soul of.

#Match 6 Tony Tony Chopper VS. Kiba Inuzuka

Tony Tony Chopper

Height: changes due to shape shifting

Weight: changes due to shape shifting

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Shape shifting
makes a drug called the “Rumble ball”

Weapons: none

Weaknesses: well?

Kiba Inuzuka

Kiba Inzuka

Height: 5’9

Weight: 115 lbs

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Beast Human Clone
Combination Transformation
Fang Passing Fang
Fang Wolf Fang
Four Legs Technique
Human Beast Combination Transformation: Double-Headed Wolf
Passing Fang

Weapons: Military Rations Pill,Smoke Bomb, Kunai

Weaknesses: Melee attacks

Outcome: Kiba Wins! It’s looking pretty embarrassing for the Pirates. Even though Tony Tony Chopper has the power to shape shift Kiba has Jutsu as well as a dog named Akamaru who shape shifts with him and an arsenal of Jutsu techniques. Tony has great medical skills and can make Drugs but that won’t really help him much in this case

Match #7 Shikamaru VS. Franky

Shikamaru Nara

Height: 5’5

Weight: 117 lbs

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Formation Ino–Shika–Chō
Portable Water Field
Shadow Gathering Technique
Shadow Imitation Shuriken Technique
Shadow Imitation Technique
Shadow Sewing Technique
Shadow–Neck Binding Technique

Weapons: Chakra Blades, Flash Bomb, Tantō, Wire Strings

Weaknesses: Melee attacks

Franky

Height: 7,10 1/2′

Weight: 240 lbs

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Franky Butterfly
Strong Right
Coup de Vent

Weapons: Custom Nun-chucks Hand Held Canon

Weaknesses: Melee Attacks

Outcome: Shikamaru Wins! Franky may be very well built in body strength , along with being a cyborg with costume made weapons built into his body. shikamaru had teh art of manipulation on his side with his shadow Imitation Justsu and can make Franky do whatever he wants suck as use his own coup de vent to blow his own face off or use his own hard right to knock himself out. So dispite fFrankys ability to blow down a single house with one gust from his arm it’s know match for Kiba.

Match # 8 Nico Robin Vs. Hinata

Nico Robin

Height: 6’0

Weight: 120 lbs

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Cinco Fleur
Seis Fleur: Twist
Ocho Fleur: Flip
Clutch
Treinta Fleur: Strangle

Weapons: Dagger

Weaknesses: Lack of focus

HIniata Hyuaga

Height: 5’2

Weight: 99 lbs

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Eight Trigrams Palms Revolving Heaven
Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms
Eight Trigrams Thirty-Two Palms
Eight Trigrams Vacuum Palm
Eight Trigrams Vacuum Wall Palm
Four-Corner Sealing Barrier
Gentle Fist
Gentle Step Twin Lion Fists
Mystical Palm Technique
Palm Bottom
Protection of the Eight Trigrams Sixty-Four Palms
Water Needle

Weapons: Kunai

Weaknesses: Lack of confidence

Outcome Nico Robin WIns! Now i know what your probably thinking. How can that be possible well let’s see Robin has the abilitty too sprout up to a thousand limbs as well as a thousand giant limbs. With her awesome strength and stamina and greater number of more then two limbs she can easily stop Hinata from using any palm techniques. Not only that she can pretty much break Hinatas body in half I mean robin smashed a snow mountain with her arms as well as restrain a zombie like she did when the Straw hat Crew went to skypiea.

So With those battles being done the score so far is Ninjas:5 Pirates:4 Now I missed a character from the Straw Hat Pirates. However I will update this article with that character of the Starw hat Pirates and a chracter from the leaf village and if it comes to it being a tie I will pick Random character from the Straw Hat Pirates and a from the leaf village to conclude who is the better of two Ninjas or Pirates.

To be Continued

Update:

Match #9 Brook Vs. Choji Akimichi

Brook

Height: 8’8 1/2

Weight: 100 lbs

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Lullaby Parry
Hanauta Sancho: Yahazu Giri
Soul Solid
Chill of the Underworld

Weapons: Violin and Sword

Weaknesses: Hes only bones

VS.

Choji Akimichi

Height: 5’6

Weight: 192 lbs

Warrior type: Ninja

Skills:

Ballistic Waterwheel (Anime only)
Butterfly Bullet Bombing
Calorie Control
Double Human Bullet Tank
Formation Ino–Shika–Chō
Human Bullet Tank
Multi-Size Technique
Partial Multi-Size Technique
Spiked Human Bullet Tank
Super Multi-Size Technique
Super Open Hand Slap

Weapons: Fūma Shuriken,Military Rations Pill,Three Coloured Pills

Weaknesses: He eats to much

Outcome Brook Wins! now although Brook is mainly bleached bones (no pun intended) he poses certain attributes that can render Choji helpless during battle. Though Choji can expand himself to enormous sizes bigger then his average body weight as well as use teh three colored pills to convert his fat to chakra. Brook can Render Him helpless by using his Lullaby Parry to do one of two things. Either A.) Use the Melody of the Lullaby Parry to make Choji fall asleep or B.) Use the Lullaby Parry to change Chojis mood and make him believe hes at an all you can eat Buffe , Then use his Soul Solid tp freeze him with the Chill of the Underworld.

Score Ninja:5 Pirates:5 Tie Breaker Battle

Final Battle Roronoa Zorro VS. Kakashi Hatake

Roronoa Zorro

Roronoa Zorro

Height:5’6

Weight:140 pds

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Kyutoryu
Kiki Kyutoryu: Asura
Armament Haki
Observation Haki

Weapons: Katana x2, Meito; Hana Arashi, Marine cutlass x2, Meito; Wado Ichimonji, Sandai Kitetsu, Meito; Shusui

Weaknesses: No sense of Direction

VS.

Kakashi Htake

Height:5’6

Weight:140 pds

Warrior type: Pirate

Skills:

Chidori
Demonic Illusion: Hell Viewing Technique
Dynamic Entry
Earth Release: Double Suicide Decapitation Technique
Earth Release: Earth-Style Wall
Earth Release: Hiding Like a Mole Technique
Earth Release: Multiple Earth-Style Wall
Eight Gates
Evil Sealing Method
Eye Mind Reading
Fang Passing Fang
Fire Release: Great Fireball Technique
Front Lotus
Genjutsu: Sharingan
Hiding in Mist Technique
Kamui
Lightning Beast Running Technique
Lightning Cutter
Lightning Release Shadow Clone
Lightning Transmission (Manga only)
Lion Combo
Multiple Shadow Clone Technique
Naruto Uzumaki Combo
One Thousand Years of Death
Peregrine Falcon Drop (Anime only)
Rasengan
Sexy Technique
Shadow Clone Technique
Shadow Imitation Technique
Shadow of the Dancing Leaf
Silent Killing
Strong Fist
Summoning Technique (Ninken)
Summoning: Earth Release: Tracking Fang Technique
Water Clone Technique
Water Release: Great Waterfall Technique
Water Release: Water Dragon Bullet Technique
Water Release: Water Encampment Wall
Water Release: Water Shark Bullet Technique

Weapons:

Bell,Bow & Arrow,Chakra-Suppressing Seal,Flying Thunder God Kunai,Kubikiribōchō,Kusarigama,Lightning Barrel ,Makibishi,Manriki-gusari,Sword,Tantō, White Light Chakra Sabre, Wire Strings

Weaknesses: Melee Attacks