Zoan

Zoan is a type of Devil Fruit.

First Appearance: Chapter 135; Episode 81

Effect
Allows the user to transform into a animal. This fruit provides three forms: the user's natural form, a full animal form (where the animal's size is often greatly exaggerated), and a hybrid form, combining both original and animal form into an oddly bipedal form (usually in a bizarre way).

Strength
Mainly improves physical abilities and allows the user to use his or her 3 forms to adapt to a situation during a fight to find the form that gives the biggest advantage. In their hybrid form Zoan users experience enhanced senses as this form uses a combination of both animals abilities. Skilled Zoans are also capable of using their powers to shape-shift out of harm's way, this is particularly useful especially when the Zoan's body has been restrained, as Chopper demonstrated so many times. This fruit type is most useful when applied to objects such as guns or swords, giving a otherwise inanimate object life and increasing its value to the owner of the item.

Weakness
They are limited to the capabilities of the animal they are able to transform into. However, in the case of the Human Human fruit (and most likely all cases with the Zoan Devil Fruit types), it is not totally wasted if the species consumes the fruit of the same nature. If a human ate the Human Human fruit, they would become enlightened. Futhermore, inaanimate objects animated to life through the use of the Zoan fruits seem to require certain requirements, in order for the owner to acquire their loyalty, Funkfreed, Spandam's sword has shown the need to feed

Other information
While most Zoan users can only use the three forms, the Straw Hat Pirate's doctor Tony Tony Chopper can utilize more forms for a given amount of time with the aid of the "Rumble Ball", which he developed. It's unknown if other Zoan users can also be affected by the Rumble Ball since so far only Chopper ate the Rumble Ball. It was stated by Chopper that carnivorous Zoan are considerably more bloodthirsty than other Zoan, which maybe why their more battle-adept than other Zoan classifications, as the animal they transform into is evolved to hunt and kill. A majority of the Zoan Devil fruits also come in different "models" that result in variations of the animal. For example, the Inu Inu (Dog) Fruit has a Jackal model, a Dachshund model, and a Wolf model, the Ushi Ushi (Cow) Fruit has a Bison model and a Giraffe model, and the Neko Neko (Cat) fruit has a Leopard model. Zoan fruits, when consumed by animals and objects, seem to increase intelligence and comprehension ability as well. Both Gan Fall's pet bird, Pierre, and Mr 4's dog Lasso seem to have a near human intelligence and could both comprehend situations better than regular animals. They could easily understand what humans told them and could even take own initiative in some sitations, eg. when Pierre saved Aisa from numerous falls. This is also the situation with Chopper, although most of his intelligence came from the Hito Hito No Mi

List of known Zoan Fruit

 * Ushi Ushi no Mi, Model: Bison


 * Hito Hito no Mi


 * Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Falcon


 * Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Dachshund


 * Mogu Mogu no Mi


 * Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Jackal


 * Uma Uma no Mi


 * Neko Neko no Mi, Model: Leopard


 * Zou Zou no Mi


 * Inu Inu no Mi, Model: Wolf


 * Ushi Ushi no Mi, Model: Giraffe


 * Neko Neko no Mi, Model: Cheetah