Roronoa Zoro

**Roronoa Zoro** is the swordsman and (unofficially) first mate of the Straw Hat Pirates, wherein he is the most dangerous after his captain Monkey D. Luffy, and one of the top four fighters in the crew as the "**Monster Quartet**". His dream is to become the greatest swordsman in the world. Zoro is regarded as one of twelve pirates who are referred to as "The Worst Generation" (formerly known as "The Eleven Supernovas") and was a former bounty hunter before joining Luffy's crew.

## Statistics

* **Name**: Roronoa Zoro, Pirate Hunter
* **Origin**: One Piece
* **Gender**: Male
* **Age**: 21
* **Birthday**: November 11
* **Classification**: Human, Straw Hat Pirates Swordsman/First Mate, Supernova, Former Bounty Hunter
* **Blood Type**: XF, AB
* **Height**: 181 cm (5'11.3")
* **Weight**: 80 kg (176 lbs)
* **Skin Color**: Light Tan
* **Eye Color**: Black
* **Hair Color**: Green
* **Relatives**: Kuina (Foster sister, deceased)
* **Alignment**: Good
* **Status**: Active
* **Class**: **S-Class**
* **Powers and Abilities**: Master Swordsman Specialist (Three Sword Style, Two Sword Style, One Sword Style), Haki (Armament Haki and Observation Haki), Enhanced Strength, Speed and Pain Resilience, Strong Willpower, Highly Perceptive Combatant
* **Standard Equipment**: Wado Ichimonji, Kitetsu III, and Shusui
* **Weaknesses**: Zoro has a very poor sense of direction.
* **Notable Attacks/Techniques**: Oni Giri, Purgatory Oni Giri, Ultra Tiger Hunt, Dragon Twister, Black Rope Dragon Twister, 1080 Caliber Phoenix, Karasuma Raven Hunt, Two Gorilla Slash, Leopard Spinning Shot, Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Three Thousand Worlds, Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Crossing the Six Paths, Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Billion-fold World Trichiliocosm, One-Sword Style Sword Draw: Lion's Death Song, 360 Caliber Phoenix, Flying Dragon Blaze, Bird Dance, Great Dragon Shock
* **Voice Actor**: Kazuya Nakai, Megumi Urawa (young)

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## Appearance

Zoro is a tall, muscular young man with lightly tanned skin and black eyes. He always carries his three swords along with him, bundled up with a green haramaki over his right hip, allowing him to easily draw them with his left hand. Although his right hand is usually seen resting over them, he can also use this hand to pull his swords out before sitting down. He has three identical gold earrings on his left earlobe. Zoro normally keeps a black bandanna tied around his left bicep and ties it around his head when he is fighting seriously against an opponent.

Zoro's body is covered with scars from his many battles, most notably the massive scar stretching from his left shoulder to his right hip that he acquired during his loss against the world's greatest swordsman, Dracule Mihawk, at Baratie. His other visible scars are the scars he inflicted upon his ankles in a desperate attempt to free himself from Mr. 3's Giant Candle Service Set by trying to cut his feet off at Little Garden. After two years of training with Mihawk, he gained another scar over his left eye, which is now implied to be critically injured as it is always closed.

Zoro's other remarkable feature is his cropped green hair that is slightly slicked back, which Sanji often teases him about by calling him "*moss-head*" (*marimo* in Japanese) due to its resemblance to one.

Other than his haramaki and bandanna, he wears a long, open dark-green coat closed on his waist and is held by a red sash, in which his three swords are currently tucked into, and his bandanna still tied around the left bicep of his coat. His coat exposes his bare chest, revealing his haramaki underneath. He also wears long, black trousers tucked under a pair of black boots. Whenever he gets serious and wears his bandanna, he takes off the top portion of his coat and lets it hang around his waist, thus revealing the haramaki and scars over his waist and lower clothing.

## Personality

While many people's first impressions that Zoro is close to that of a malicious killer, he is actually a stern, serious, and distanced individual, but often loses his temper in a goofy and exaggerated comical style. Outside of situations where he feels confident in battle, he rarely smiles, laughs or cries. Despite this, Zoro has a kind heart, even risking his own life to protect those he cares about. When fighting weaker or innocent people, he does try to hold back when fighting and use the dull side of his swords in order not to seriously injure them.

He has a strong sense of leadership and acts as a sound of reason for the crew who usually supports Luffy unquestionably. While technically not a samurai, Zoro maintains Bushido to a certain degree (e.g. he consistently refuses to attack an adversary whose back is turned, resort to trickery and may even admit his admiration to his opponent's abilities). He is always on edge when meeting new people and remains cautious to those he can't trust. However, Zoro can also be notoriously lazy and borderline narcoleptic, and has even a high tolerance for alcohol. His sense of direction is staggeringly terrible, as he can become completely lost with the simplest of maps or instructions.

Zoro hates to lose and can be an extremely reckless daredevil to triumph as the fair victor, not caring about his own well-being when hurt gravely. He even regularly reverts to drastic measures to solve simple problems, suggesting solutions that others would normally consider to be their last possible, worst-case-scenario choices. He also is one of the first Straw Hat members to suggest killing someone or threatening to kill someone, something which Robin disapprove most of the time. Furthermore, Zoro tends to face death in a defiant manner and show no fear of dying even when he is in a gravely injured state. He also lives for the trill of combat, even possessing deadly force and a murderous intent to kill if shown.

Zoro can also be very vigorous when he is determined to achieve a goal or defeat an enemy. The risks that he will often take to pursue his dream of becoming the world's greatest swordsman often leave others wondering if he is crazy. As far as Zoro is concerned though, only he has the right to call himself "crazy". However, he is able to accept defeat when he perceives it to be inevitable. Also, Zoro does not care if any gods exist or not.

## Main Skills and Equipment

**Three Sword Style**: Zoro's trademark; his primary sword style, created by himself. It is a style of sword fighting that deals with the wielding of three Katana; one in each hand and one in the mouth. There are many different techniques for this sword style, including Iaido, simultaneous slashing techniques with all three of his swords, compressed air projectiles etc.

* **Oni Giri** (*Demon Slash*): A three-way simultaneous slashing attack. Zoro crosses his two swords across his chest and places the blade in his mouth horizontally behind them. Zoro then approaches the target (usually at high speed) and cuts through by swinging the swords across his chest, resulting in a descending diagonal-crossing slash from both swords while the mouth blade performs a horizontal cut from either the left or right, depending on which side of his mouth he positioned the sword's main blade at.
	+ **Purgatory Oni Giri** (*Purgatory Demon Slash*): A much stronger version of **Oni Giri**, where Zoro stands still facing away from his opponent, waiting for him to come while posing in the stance of "Oni Giri" to then turn around and leap to the attacking opponent. This may be a way to make his already lightning-fast triple slash even more sudden.
* **Ultra Tiger Hunt**: Zoro puts his hand swords over his mouth blade and swings forth a forward descending slash with them. At close-range, this can incapacitate at least two average foes at once.
* **Dragon Twister**: Zoro spins with his swords to create a dragon-like tornado that both slashes and blows away the target(s).
	+ **Black Rope Dragon Twister**: A much stronger and more effective version of **Dragon Twister**, where Zoro performs the same action. He spins to create a dragon-like tornado that both slashes and blows away the targets, but the attack keeps going like an actual whirlwind and cuts up anyone who gets caught in it.
* **1080 Caliber Phoenix**: Same principle as the three hundred-sixty version of the same attack. Holding his two swords horizontally above the shoulder and the other in his mouth in the same direction, and then performs a circular swing that launches three air compressed projectiles spiraling towards the target instead of one or two, tripling the power of the technique, but with Shusui, the air compressed projectiles instead fuse and become a larger and more powerful, compressed air projectile.
* **Karasuma Raven Hunt**: Zoro performs a flying multiple slash technique.
* **Two Gorilla Slash**: Zoro flexes both muscles, before swinging his swords so that the tips meet when they hit the opponent, with the swords in his mouth and left hand being held at the same level and the right's hilt dropping at an angle.
* **Leopard Spinning Shot**: Zoro jumps forward while spinning in the air, forming a ball shape with his blades. This is basically a feinting maneuver, so even if the target manages to read the pattern of this attack and move out of Zoro's trajectory, they will still be cut as Zoro careens past them.
* **Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Three Thousand Worlds**: Zoro holds two of his swords at an angle against each other and rotates them rapidly while running towards his opponent to create momentum; he then slices up the foe with full speed and power.
	+ **Three Sword Style Secret Technique: Billion-fold World Trichiliocosm**: An enhanced version of "Three Thousand Worlds", Zoro delivers massive slashes to his opponent one after another. This technique can be done airborne and is capable of cutting through a large amount of solid stone with ease, as shown when slashing Pica multiple times at his giant stone body to lure him out and defeat him with the final slash of the move. When Zoro used this technique, he used Haki on his swords to make them more durable and the attack even stronger.
* **Three-Sword Style Secret Technique: Crossing the Six Paths**: Zoro manages to bend his body, and swing the swords in the form of an inverted "S" shape while performing a vertical spin, slashing the opponent six times simultaneously so fast that he did not seem to move at all.

**Two Sword Style**: A complementary stance to Zoro's Three Sword Style, which encompasses dual-wielding two of his katanas.

**One Sword Style**: A complementary stance to Zoro's Three Sword Style, which encompasses wielding one sword. Zoro primarily uses the One Sword Style for specialized cutting techniques.

* **One-Sword Style Sword Draw: Lion's Death Song**: Zoro dashes towards the target at inhuman speeds, all whilst placing his sword at one of his hips, unsheathing it, striking the opponent with great power and precision and then sheathing the sword. Once the blade meets the hilt, the damage occurs.
* **360 Caliber Phoenix**: This attack uses the air itself to slash the target from a distance.
* **Flying Dragon Blaze**: Using one sword wielded in his left hand with his right hand gripping his left wrist for support (or vice-versa), Zoro jumps high up into the air and slashes his opponent. After slashing them, Zoro's opponent then bursts into flames.
* **Bird Dance**: Zoro launches from his sword a crescent moon-like projectile of compressed air to the opponent with great speed, similar to 360 Caliber Phoenix.
* **Great Dragon Shock**: Zoro runs towards his opponent with Shusui held outstretched in one arm. He then executes a two handed overhead swing used to split his opponent into two from the top down. The power of the move is such that even after cutting through Monet's snow body, the attack still resulted in a powerful shockwave that cut through the floor many meters ahead of him.

**Haki**: There are normally two types of Haki regular people can tap into: the Observation Haki which allows individuals to sense the presence of others, and Armament Haki which allows individuals to create an invisible armor around them. There is however a third type of Haki, Conqueror's Haki, that only a few individuals can use. It is currently unknown if Zoro is one of these people.

* **Armament Haki**: Zoro is a specialized user of Armament Haki, displaying Advanced levels of application, allowing his sword to cut through the thickest steel when he wishes and at the same time for it not the cut the thinnest of paper.
	+ **Armament: Hardening**: This technique somehow uses Armament Haki to drastically harden his body (or parts of it). For Zoro, he performed this on himself and his weapons, being able to cover a large portion of his body with Haki at once on a whim, with the color displayed black like actual armor on skin. The durability of his Haki prevented his swords from suffering a single scratch after slicing through Pica's statue several times, and Pica's Armament Haki defense easily.
* **Observation Haki**: Zoro has only displayed basic application of this type of Haki, only being able to witness instantaneous premonitions of the future with intense focus, and having only displayed the ability to sense the presence of others from upwards to a couple kilometers away.

**Zoro's Swords**: Zoro used to generally carries several swords aside from the Wado Ichimonji during his adventures, before gaining the Kitetsu III and Shusui, making them along with the Wado Ichimonji his signature swords.

* **Wado Ichimonji**: A blade crafted by the legendary swordsmith named Shimotsuki Kouzaburou, and is among the 21 Great Grade Swords. It possesses a pure-white grip on the handle, as well as a circular guard with a straight blade. It has a painted white sheath. Early on in *One Piece*, the blade belonged to Roronoa Zoro's close friend Kuina, who has only been seen using it once during a duel with Zoro. Upon her accidental death, the Wado Ichimonji was entrusted to Zoro, and he has wielded it ever since.
* **Kitetsu III**: A cursed sword crafted by Tenguyama Hitetsu. It is the last of the kitetsu blades to be created. The sword was first introduced in Loguetown, being sold at an unreasonably low price of 50,000 belis. Roronoa Zoro and Tashigi both recognized its quality at first sight, and it was revealed to be a cursed sword. It is then explained that the kitetsu blades all lead their wielders to death from its curse. Zoro challenged the blade's curse by throwing it in the air, and extending his arm--inviting it to slice it off. The blade seemed to recognize Zoro as a worthy wielder, and seemingly moved away from his arm at the last moment. The hilt is wrapped reddish-brown, with a golden clasp around its middle and a golden pommel and it possesses a rounded cross pommel. The blade is curved and has a white edge and blue flame design.
* **Shusui**: A famous black blade wielded by the samurai Ryuma, who once used it to kill a dragon. This blade was introduced by being wielded by an undead Ryuma, who was defeated by Roronoa Zoro, and passed the blade onto him. The blade is noted for its heaviness and durability by Zoro. It is a prized treasure of the Wano country.

**Master Swordsman**: Zoro is an extremely powerful master swordsman, being able to use one, two, and three swords in varying attack styles, going from melee-type all the way to artillery. He is even able to use some sword techniques that utilize the very air itself to strike the enemy from a distance. Brook classifies Zoro as a user of the "Power of Destruction".

Although he is most comfortable with his Three Sword Style, his skills with a single sword are still quite exceptional, being able to hold off the Nyaban brothers, having bested several of the lower-ranked members of Arlong's crew, defeating Mr. 1, and the zombie, Ryuma. After his two years under Mihawk's tutelage, his skills have grown so powerful that he was able to defeat the fishman Hody Jones while underwater with just one slash from a single sword, and effortlessly defeated the best swordsman of Fishman Island, considering him to be too weak to even kill his boredom, despite the latter having went through a transformation due to the Energy Steroids.
**Expert Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: When not armed with his swords, Zoro has shown to be skilled in hand to hand combat. He has been known to effectively knock out much larger creatures with unarmed strikes. Also he has been able to defeat opponents with massive punches and kicks. Zoro has also been shown to fight on par with Sanji during their arguments, even without his swords at times.

**Enhanced Strength**: Even without his swords, Zoro has monstrous physical strength. At a very young age he was able to lift boulders over his head, and is now able to lift and toss an entire building. He can use some sword techniques without his swords, and has also been shown to pack powerful punches. He was even strong enough to deflect a punch from Oars before the timeskip, and has developed the ability to pump his arms up with pure muscle.

**Enhanced Speed**: On numerous occasions, Zoro has shown being able to evade (or block) high-speed attacks and projectiles that move so fast that it would normally be impossible for an average human to even notice them, much less evade them. Thus, Zoro was able to dodge simultaneous pressure shots as well as a laser blast from Bartholomew Kuma, both of which travel at extremely high speed, even after being heavily injured from his previous fights with Oars and fatigued from his fight with Ryuma.

* **Enhanced Reflexes**: Zoro's agility, speed, and overall reflexes are also extraordinary. He has shown that he is quick enough to keep up with Sanji, who is a master of his own leg-based style, as well as two Soru users simultaneously (Kaku and Jabra). He can move at nearly imperceptible speeds, jump to astonishing heights, and dodge bullets with ease.
* **Enhanced Swimming Speed**: After the two years timeskip, Zoro can even move underwater at a speed faster than a fishman. This was mentioned by a member of the New Fishman Pirates, who exclaimed that it was inconceivable for the swordsman to be faster than a fishman (referring to the aforementioned battle with Hody Jones) underwater.

**Enhanced Pain Resilience**: To match his incredible strength, Zoro also has an amazing tolerance to pain and astonishing amounts of stamina, endurance and durability, evidenced by numerous situations he has thus far endured.

**Strong Willpower**:

**Tactical Skills**: Zoro typically does not plan out actions and strategies ahead of time, but he has shown himself to be extremely skilled at coming up with tactics in the middle of battle in order to gain an advantage over opponents or to take on an opponent who cannot be fought through conventional means.

**Meditation**:

## Relationships

* Kuina
* Monkey D. Luffy
* Nami
* Sanji
* Usopp
* Tony Tony Chopper
* Nico Robin
* Franky
* Blizzard
* Brook
* Monkey D. Aika
* Kumi
* Nefertari Vivi
* Perona
* Ryuma
* Tashigi
* Dracule Mihawk
* Bartholomew Kuma
* Issho
* Sakazuki
* Yuno Grinberryall and Sylph
* Armin Arlert
* Taiga Kagami

## In Other Media

### Music

* Sings Monster's Generation with Luffy, Blizzard, Asta, Eren, Kuroko, Nami and Sanji