User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 880: Wave Making Cake Baking/@comment-24850639-20170929193609/@comment-24850639-20171002153648

Yeah he did an exceptional job with this one, I don't think the Straw Hats have ever been attacked from this many angles by people that are this high level of a threat since Saobody (I really suck at spelling that damn word lol). They had Kizaru, Kuma (enemy at the time), and Pacifista. If Kuma's ability didn't turn out to be something that ultimately saved their lives, they'd be done for. I was binging the anime at the time I first saw it, so I was able to see their fates within a few hours. Can't imagine what that was like for the manga readers who had to wait a week or two with such a horrible feeling in their gut. The only saving grace we had, was knowing from beforehand on Thriller Bark that Kuma was a very honorable person, had a trememendous amount of respect for Luffy and his crew, and that his Devil Fruit appeared to send you to a place rather than physically harm you should he choose to use it that way. We have a few in this case:

- Jinbe: Based on what we know of Jinbe's abilities, he should be able to at least buy them some time from the tsunami. Although it could potentially require that he sacrifice himself in some kind of way, there really is now better stage than now for Jinbe to really wow us with his combat abilities before officially joining the crew. Not that he hasn't already been impressive (that standoff with Big Mom still gives me chills), but this is an obvious situation for him to leverage his abilities in some kind of way.

- Brook: While it's doubtful that Brook's ice capabilities could stop a frickin tsunami, he like Jinbe, should be able to at least buy some time. Maybe they can even use their abilities together for some kind of combo attack. More importantly though, Brook has demonstrated a superiority over Big Mom's homies, and you can't stress enough him being the only person in One Piece history to harm Promethus and Zeus.

- Random fishman/merman: Assuming that this is the Sun Pirates as everyone is theorizing, I don't doubt their combined aquatic capabilities being capable of dealing with the tsunami. This is HEAVY speculation though, so while I like it, it's not as easy to convince myself that it could happen as much as the first two.

Like usual though, what will probably happen is secret answer D that noone but Oda could have seen coming.