I'd put Robin and Chopper above Ussop and "maybe" Brook and Sanji.
This is based on "mastery level" because you can't just compare a Doctor to an Archeologist like who's smarter.
Ussop can repair ship, design weapon, etc. he can do a lot tbh but none of them are at least half of what Franky or Chopper can do. So I can say Ussop is skillful/strategic since he know how to improvise.
Robin studied archeology since she was a child and past the test as a child.
Brook is a genius in music too, I forgot what episode but he said he can play any instrument (that's rare in real life!) he also became famous in just 2 years when he tried.
Sanji, idk if Cooking is considered as high IQ but being smart is one of his role. He's always 1 step ahead of enemies a good tactician (with weakness to girls. lol)
Chopper knowledge is no question. I think he's also not an idiot outside being a doctor, he's literally a child that's why he's gullible. But I'm not sure...
Also narratively, Ussop can do a lot of things is kinda "loophole" they don't have inventor or shipwright that time, so Oda is no choice but to give that role to him since Zoro and Sanji are main helmsman. Everyone repair the ship just like how Ussop repair it, Ussop was just more caring to ship because of Kaya.
Yup. Minor = child
Also, I can compare it to people from province to city (animal to human) Idk if culture shock is right term but we saw Chopper's arc is about understanding human.
If you have Dog, you can easily understand it. They're very honest and easy to fool but even how much you make fool of them, they'll trust you again and again. It doesn't mean they're idiot.
Chopper is not used to being a human due to lack of socialization, but being a doctor needs a wide understanding of human and what that makes him genius.
>8. Brook: He is intellectual maybe average. Sometimes dumb sometimes smart but most of the time just joking
Brook is Musician, and by the story tell me, he can play any instruments, i don't think even the average Musician is having average iq, much more to the level of Brook specialty.
I would put him above Jinbei, or least with Jinbei.
Lol you’re putting the cook above the doctor? Besides no crew member is more easily manipulated than Sanji. Literally half the world population could manipulate him.
on average sanji is smarter. the only Aspekt where chopper is smarter than him is medicine. most of the world can manipulate chopper exception being luffy, bigmom (bc dumb) and the dwarf people.
Sanji has a weird reason why he gets manipulated by women.
oh come on. Sanjis reason why he is weak to woman has nothing to do with his intelligence.
No, you dont win automatically. He still Blocks attacks
Chopper behaves in some case like a little child while he is 17.
My point is that Sanji has done nothing to suggest he is more intelligent than average, and you cannot name an example either. Meanwhile Chopper is elite in an academic field.
I think you're overrating Usopp. He's a jack of all trades, master of none.
One of the reasons the Merry was in such a bad shape was because they didn't have anyone that was a competent shipwright - Usopp was doing the repairs, but he still did a pretty poor job with it. Better than the other East Blue Straw Hats could've managed, but still nowhere near the level of an actual shipwright.
His knowledge of biology is also limited. He's am expert when it comes to Pop Greens, but he was never able to identify any wild animals or marine life they come across.
We also know for a fact that his cooking and medicine skills don't go beyond what an average is capable of, that's why they had to get Sanji and Chopper asap.
He's not stupid, he's likely even pretty clever, but he's not smarter than the likes of Sanji or Brook and nowhere near the levels of Franky or Robin
What he does excel at is creativity. He's easily the best painter in the crew, can come up with fantastic stories on a whim, and even his tinkering is much more of an inspired process of trial and error than Franky's scientific engineering. Even in his fights he's creative - his fight against Luffy shows what he can do with prep time
You're also undervaluing Robin, hard. Reading Poneglyphs isn't the only thing she does (and translating a hieroglyphic language isn't simple even after the symbols themselves are deciphered).
You note how Sanji is adept at spying, yet Robin has been doing it for over a decade longer the he has and was good enough at it that a big player in the underworld wanted her as his right hand.
Robin doesn't just know history, she also knows more about politics than any other strawhat other than maybe Jinbei, knows more about geography than everyone except Nami and can navigate well enough to get by on her own.
> She barely combines any information. The characters around her do the job.
She acts like a teacher mostly. By the time the other characters figure out the context of whatever new information they got, Robin will be either smiling knowingly or is the first to have a shocked expression. She just doesn't spoonfeed the information to the other crewmembers (and the reader)
This exactly!
To me, Robin is the smartest out of the crew without a doubt.
You don’t get by and survive since that very young age without being smart, especially when all the adults are trying to catch you for that high bounty. She’s also recruited by Crocodile, and she has to be smart enough to decide to work with him (I believe one of the reason is) to get the World Government off her back with the protection from the Seven Warlord title that Crocodile has. Because if Crocodile notices her, who to say other underworld lords didn’t try to recruit her before? She chose Crocodile as much as Crocodile chose her.
Just as you said, collecting information is hard. But it’s an intellectual job, rather than physical. In One Piece, you don’t go around strong arming people to tell you info. Rather, using smart and creative ways to collect them. Notice how Robin being the one able to collect all of the important info in Wano arc and shocks everyone.
I wouldn’t say Usopp is smart, rather he is a creative man with luck. He’s definitely smarter than Luffy and Zoro, maybe Chopper, but the rest, I don’t think so.
Tho I kind of get why OP ranks Usopp higher than Robin. Along the series, Robin kind of gets dumb-down and Usopp getting all the “important moments” to showcase his “brilliance”. Notably in Dressrosa arc, Robin could have easily settle Sugar even w/o needing Leo’s help. But they had to dumb her down so that Usopp can be the god that save the world by defeating Sugar…
I never said she is dumb or average. I said she is super smart. Its not as a intellectual as in real World. Being able to read the poneglyphs is probaply equivalent to read Chinese/ japanese as an non-native speaker. Its difficult. But with a teacher the child can learn it with a young age
Most of the functionality was the dials though. He didn't make it actually produce heat or wind
And the prototype from Alabasta was neat, but really not a "superweapon" by OP standards
Iq is different from book knowledge, you can have less book knowledge and still have high iq, example chopper is doctor who is highly proficient in medical knowledge yet his iq is one of the lowest in the crew, he is not street smart, robin is good example of having balance of both, sanji is someone with less book knowledge with high iq, he got better of crocodile who is one of the smartest brain in op world, mind you he outsmarted crocodile not once but twice, sanji is strategist and tactician of the crew, Franky is also one of the smartest even outside of his speciality, so imo best ranking would be
Robin
Franky
Sanji
Nami
Ussop
Jimbe
Brook
Zoro
Luffy
Chopper
I'd put Robin and Chopper above Ussop and "maybe" Brook and Sanji. This is based on "mastery level" because you can't just compare a Doctor to an Archeologist like who's smarter. Ussop can repair ship, design weapon, etc. he can do a lot tbh but none of them are at least half of what Franky or Chopper can do. So I can say Ussop is skillful/strategic since he know how to improvise. Robin studied archeology since she was a child and past the test as a child. Brook is a genius in music too, I forgot what episode but he said he can play any instrument (that's rare in real life!) he also became famous in just 2 years when he tried. Sanji, idk if Cooking is considered as high IQ but being smart is one of his role. He's always 1 step ahead of enemies a good tactician (with weakness to girls. lol) Chopper knowledge is no question. I think he's also not an idiot outside being a doctor, he's literally a child that's why he's gullible. But I'm not sure... Also narratively, Ussop can do a lot of things is kinda "loophole" they don't have inventor or shipwright that time, so Oda is no choice but to give that role to him since Zoro and Sanji are main helmsman. Everyone repair the ship just like how Ussop repair it, Ussop was just more caring to ship because of Kaya.
Chopper is 17. He is 2 years younger than luffy and usopp
Yup. Minor = child Also, I can compare it to people from province to city (animal to human) Idk if culture shock is right term but we saw Chopper's arc is about understanding human. If you have Dog, you can easily understand it. They're very honest and easy to fool but even how much you make fool of them, they'll trust you again and again. It doesn't mean they're idiot. Chopper is not used to being a human due to lack of socialization, but being a doctor needs a wide understanding of human and what that makes him genius.
>8. Brook: He is intellectual maybe average. Sometimes dumb sometimes smart but most of the time just joking Brook is Musician, and by the story tell me, he can play any instruments, i don't think even the average Musician is having average iq, much more to the level of Brook specialty. I would put him above Jinbei, or least with Jinbei.
Lol you’re putting the cook above the doctor? Besides no crew member is more easily manipulated than Sanji. Literally half the world population could manipulate him.
on average sanji is smarter. the only Aspekt where chopper is smarter than him is medicine. most of the world can manipulate chopper exception being luffy, bigmom (bc dumb) and the dwarf people. Sanji has a weird reason why he gets manipulated by women.
On what basis exactly? Sanji hasn’t shown anything for people to say he’s smart, and certainly not enough to say he’s smarter than a doctor.
dude if you have to fight Chopper hold candy infront of him. He turns into smart point and then ypu can stab him
What kind of logic is that? If you’re a lady you automatically win against the moron that is Sanji.
oh come on. Sanjis reason why he is weak to woman has nothing to do with his intelligence. No, you dont win automatically. He still Blocks attacks Chopper behaves in some case like a little child while he is 17.
My point is that Sanji has done nothing to suggest he is more intelligent than average, and you cannot name an example either. Meanwhile Chopper is elite in an academic field.
Sanji: Prince -Story in little Garten, Water seven train spy, gate of justice.
Those have nothing to do with IQ, and clearly doesn’t put Sanji over Chopper.
I think you're overrating Usopp. He's a jack of all trades, master of none. One of the reasons the Merry was in such a bad shape was because they didn't have anyone that was a competent shipwright - Usopp was doing the repairs, but he still did a pretty poor job with it. Better than the other East Blue Straw Hats could've managed, but still nowhere near the level of an actual shipwright. His knowledge of biology is also limited. He's am expert when it comes to Pop Greens, but he was never able to identify any wild animals or marine life they come across. We also know for a fact that his cooking and medicine skills don't go beyond what an average is capable of, that's why they had to get Sanji and Chopper asap. He's not stupid, he's likely even pretty clever, but he's not smarter than the likes of Sanji or Brook and nowhere near the levels of Franky or Robin What he does excel at is creativity. He's easily the best painter in the crew, can come up with fantastic stories on a whim, and even his tinkering is much more of an inspired process of trial and error than Franky's scientific engineering. Even in his fights he's creative - his fight against Luffy shows what he can do with prep time
You're also undervaluing Robin, hard. Reading Poneglyphs isn't the only thing she does (and translating a hieroglyphic language isn't simple even after the symbols themselves are deciphered). You note how Sanji is adept at spying, yet Robin has been doing it for over a decade longer the he has and was good enough at it that a big player in the underworld wanted her as his right hand. Robin doesn't just know history, she also knows more about politics than any other strawhat other than maybe Jinbei, knows more about geography than everyone except Nami and can navigate well enough to get by on her own. > She barely combines any information. The characters around her do the job. She acts like a teacher mostly. By the time the other characters figure out the context of whatever new information they got, Robin will be either smiling knowingly or is the first to have a shocked expression. She just doesn't spoonfeed the information to the other crewmembers (and the reader)
This exactly! To me, Robin is the smartest out of the crew without a doubt. You don’t get by and survive since that very young age without being smart, especially when all the adults are trying to catch you for that high bounty. She’s also recruited by Crocodile, and she has to be smart enough to decide to work with him (I believe one of the reason is) to get the World Government off her back with the protection from the Seven Warlord title that Crocodile has. Because if Crocodile notices her, who to say other underworld lords didn’t try to recruit her before? She chose Crocodile as much as Crocodile chose her. Just as you said, collecting information is hard. But it’s an intellectual job, rather than physical. In One Piece, you don’t go around strong arming people to tell you info. Rather, using smart and creative ways to collect them. Notice how Robin being the one able to collect all of the important info in Wano arc and shocks everyone. I wouldn’t say Usopp is smart, rather he is a creative man with luck. He’s definitely smarter than Luffy and Zoro, maybe Chopper, but the rest, I don’t think so. Tho I kind of get why OP ranks Usopp higher than Robin. Along the series, Robin kind of gets dumb-down and Usopp getting all the “important moments” to showcase his “brilliance”. Notably in Dressrosa arc, Robin could have easily settle Sugar even w/o needing Leo’s help. But they had to dumb her down so that Usopp can be the god that save the world by defeating Sugar…
I never said she is dumb or average. I said she is super smart. Its not as a intellectual as in real World. Being able to read the poneglyphs is probaply equivalent to read Chinese/ japanese as an non-native speaker. Its difficult. But with a teacher the child can learn it with a young age
usopp made robins weapon and is an expert botanist and weapon designer… he’s smarter than robin
> usopp made robins weapon I'm pretty sure she grew her hands herself
Oh ye meant nami
if you can build a super weapon, you are super smart
Most of the functionality was the dials though. He didn't make it actually produce heat or wind And the prototype from Alabasta was neat, but really not a "superweapon" by OP standards
Iq is different from book knowledge, you can have less book knowledge and still have high iq, example chopper is doctor who is highly proficient in medical knowledge yet his iq is one of the lowest in the crew, he is not street smart, robin is good example of having balance of both, sanji is someone with less book knowledge with high iq, he got better of crocodile who is one of the smartest brain in op world, mind you he outsmarted crocodile not once but twice, sanji is strategist and tactician of the crew, Franky is also one of the smartest even outside of his speciality, so imo best ranking would be Robin Franky Sanji Nami Ussop Jimbe Brook Zoro Luffy Chopper
Ussop above Robin? Ussop should be right above Zoro tbh
Nami is smartest SH, then Franky, Jinbe, Usopp, Chopper, robin, Sanji and the rest