Talk:Atomu Atomu no Mi/@comment-4080028-20140206042838

Personally, I'm feeling like this discussion is getting way out of hand and is going on for way too long. I understand this wiki allows more freedom and has less consequences than Ship of Fools does, but if what I'm hearing is true, then it seems this DF may be a real game breaker, even for Sea of Fools standards.

Normally, I'd try and stay out of situations I have little knowledge of expertise in. But it seems I need to assert my authority here. I have plenty of faith in 13th, as he's done a spot on job in looking after DFs on both the Ship and Sea of Fools wikis. I know it sounds biased, but I have little else to go on here, as I have mediocre knowledge on particles, atoms, molecules, and so forth. I'm much more knowledgeable about things such as how powerful a character should be, or what would break One Piece canon and what wouldn't. But this, well, all I can do is have faith that a Yonkou I hand picked myself is doing his job well.

Now, the biggest complaint I'm hearing is the seastone issue. I believe great pains have been taken in trying to solve it. However, in order to mend things here, might I suggest something else?

Stick to contact only when activating this DF's powers. I say this, because I feel being able to shoot pulses of the DF's power from afar, no matter what restrictions you place on it, may be too far fetched. You can improvise and make decent substitutes of course, such as gathering air molecules that are within an area of contact around the user's hand, and then shooting them forward to create shockwaves. Hell, you could even perform something similar to Kuma's Ursus Shock that way. That alone is pretty damn powerful in One Piece. Anything beyond that would be practically godly.

From my perspective, and yes, I'm quoting Naruto here, it looks to me that having a contact only DF that can also use long range activation is like trying to look left and right at once. It's simply too much. And this returns us to the seastone debate: making this a contact only activated power means you must always touch seastone to disassemble it, but because of how seastone works, that'll disable the powers of the Atomu Atomu no Mi right away, making destroying seastone impossible either way.