The climax of One Piece’s Elbaph Arc is putting Monkey D. Dragon’s unnamed power back under the spotlight, and the manga now treats it as the last major Devil Fruit still waiting to be unveiled. That matters because the series has spent 28 years building toward this kind of reveal, and Dragon has been part of that build since his first appearance in Chapter 100.
Dragon’s powers were first shown on August 9, 1999, in Weekly Shonen Jump Issue 37-38, when he brought strong currents into Logue Town, changed the weather, and set up the lightning strike that freed Luffy from the execution platform. He also stopped Smoker and used winds from his mysterious ability to propel the Straw Hats forward out of the town. The same wind returned in Chapter 587, when Dragon blew away the flames at Grey Terminal, opened a path for people facing death in the fire, and later took survivors in as part of the Revolutionary Army.
Now the story is framing that ability as the last major Devil Fruit left to be unveiled. Chapter 1175 revealed Loki’s Ryu Ryu no Mi, Model: Nidhoggr, and Chapter 1179 revealed Nerona Imu’s Akuma no Mi, leaving Dragon as the final big holdout while the Elbaph Arc moves through its climax. The article places the Nidhoggr on the same narrative tier as the Sun God Nika, and says its importance is made clearer in Chapters 1180 and 1181, where its role in the Great War is shown to reach back before the Void Century.
That is why the focus on Dragon feels different now. One Piece has already revealed the Devil Fruit powers of the Yonko who have them, along with the Admirals and other Navy members, so the remaining mystery is not about whether the story has room for more powers. It is about when the manga chooses to cash in one of its oldest ones, and Dragon’s ability has been waiting in plain sight since the scene in Logue Town where he warned Luffy to run for it because a huge storm was coming.
The tension is that the series has kept Dragon’s power deliberately unnamed even as it keeps returning to the same image: wind, storms, and movement. Imu’s ability now stands as a measure of the scale of the final villain, while Dragon’s unresolved power is being treated as one of the last major keys left in the story’s endgame. With Elbaph in its final stretch, the question is no longer whether Dragon matters, but whether the manga is finally about to name the force that has been guiding him since Chapter 100.
