Noro Noro no Mi

The Noro Noro no Mi, also known as the Noro Noro Fruit, is a Paramecia type Devil Fruit that allows the user to emit "Noroma Photons", microscopic particles that have yet to be understood by scientists. They significantly slow down any object the user strikes down for thirty seconds. "Noro" means slowly or sluggishly. This Devil Fruit was eaten by Foxy the Silver Fox.

Strengths and Weaknesses
The major strength of the fruit, as demonstrated by Foxy, is that it gives its user the ability to emit beams of "Noroma Photons" which they can use to slow down anything for thirty seconds. In that amount of time, the user can do anything to the slowed down object. When a person, who is hit by these beams, receives any number of strikes while in the slowed down state, the kinetic force of the strikes to them is released all at once when they return to their normal speed, making the attacks more damaging.

Noro Noro beams, being beams of light, can be reflected by mirrors. This can allow the user to create interesting attacks that can catch their opponent off guard.

The major weakness of the fruit's powers is that the user is not immune not immune to the effects of their own photons and will be slowed down if exposed to them. The beams also can only slow down something roughly the size of the beam itself such as it only slowing down a small fraction of a tidal wave leaving Foxy vulnerable to the remaining waves. Other than that, the user is also affected by the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.

Usage
Though not completely sure how the photons in the beams really work, Foxy uses the fruit's bestowed powers to aid him in cheating in the Davy Back Fight. These range from him helping his pirate crew in wining matches by slowing down their opponents, to slowing down his opponents to give him an edge over them. Combined with his other tricks, Foxy's mastery over his Devil Fruit powers ensures that he will have always an advantage in any Davy Back Fight that he participates in.

The named techniques that are used by Foxy that involve the Devil Fruit are as follows:


 * Noro Noro Beam: Foxy's main attack. He shoots a beam of noroma photons at his target, slowing it down for 30 seconds. This was first seen being used on Nami, Usopp and the Barrel Tiger.


 * Noro Noro Psyche: Foxy pretends to fire a Noro Noro beam so that the opponent would try to dodge it. While the opponent is dodging, their guard will be down, giving foxy enough time to attack with the real Noro Noro beam.


 * Kyuubi Rush (Nine-Tails Rush): Foxy delivers a flurry of punches to his opponent at a rapid speed. The actual punches aren't especially strong, but are made more powerful by slowing his opponent down with his Noro Noro Beam. The aftermath of the attack is that all punches administered by Foxy gets released all at once. The effects of the Noro Noro Beam can also temporarily nullify the Gomu Gomu no Mi's power of elasticity, which was how Foxy was able to hit (and massively humiliate) Luffy as if he was a normal human. An act which would have proved otherwise impossible for a rubber human.


 * Foxy Face Bombs: Foxy fires several bombs shaped like his face and slows them all down with his devil fruit power. The bombs then all explode at once in a massive blast.


 * Noro Marble Coach Devil: Foxy traps his opponent in a chamber with the Gorilla Puncher coming towards them. At the same time, he reflects his beams all over the chamber using its mirrored back wall and Mirror Racket. Even if his opponent manages to dodge all of the beams and punches, unless they think quickly they'll be eventually crushed against the back wall by the Gorilla Puncher. Luffy was able to counter this technique by smashing the mirror wall with his fists and escaped


 * Mirror Racket: Foxy uses a hand-mirror to reflect his beams towards his opponent.
 * Noro Noro Beam Sword: Using a wooden sword hilt as a base, Foxy forms an extendable whip like sword made of his noroma photons. This sword can create the same effect on the opponent as a Noro Noro Beam, or form shackles of noroma photons to bind his/her limbs, the sword type beam also last longer than his regular beam.


 * Megaton Kyuubi Rush (Megaton Nine-Tails Rush): Foxy delivers a series of punches as with Kyuubi Rush, but harder, faster, and with more punches after Foxy Upgrade.


 * Foxy Fighter: Foxy fires a cannonball before slowing it down with Noro Noro Beam. Foxy then mounts a small wooden glider onto the cannonball and delivers a punch as it slows down using the speed of the cannonball. Foxy can then jump off of the glider, allowing it to crash into his opponent and explode.

While the Devil Fruit powers aid Foxy in many ways, they unfortunately can be used against him if his opponent can make the beams be directed at him. This can be done either by reflecting the beams or forcibly making Foxy fire the beams at himself.

Trivia

 * The way Foxy holds his hands to emit the Noro Noro Beams resembles the way Japanese would hold their hands up to represent a fox.
 * A fan asked what would happen if the incredibly slow moving Baroque Works agent, Mr. 4 was hit by one of Foxy's Noro Noro Beams. Oda demonstrated what happen by pretending to be Mr. 4 saying "Oh crap!!" after being hit by the beams. Due to page length restraints, the incredibly long message that Oda gave for demonstration was cut short.
 * Because of the way Boa Hancock's Mero Mero Merrow technique resembles the Noro Noro Beam of Foxy, it was mistaken for this fruit's power by Luffy.