Sube Sube no Mi

Taking its name from subesube, a Japanese term for something silky and smooth against the skin, this Paramecia power makes the eater's body so slick that most objects glance off it without effect. The pirate captain Alvida is the one who ate it. Its English titles differ by release: the Slip-Slip Fruit is the label used in both the Viz manga and the 4Kids dub, whereas Funimation went with the Smooth-Smooth Fruit. The actual fruit, a glossy pink peach-like sphere ringed with s-shaped swirls under a green stem, stayed unseen for more than twenty-two years after its power first appeared, the widest such gap in the whole series.

Blades, bullets, and bare fists all slip off the wielder's frictionless skin, sparing them harm no matter how massive or heavy the incoming threat, and the shielding reaches to any clothes or gear they wear, a point proven when a chunk of rubble bounced off Alvida through her coat. One lasting bonus of the power sloughed away all her surplus fat, giving her a slender build she keeps even under Seastone, though her raw strength held firm enough to swing her heavy iron mace. The slickness is no perfect armor: Smoker pinned her with binding smoke, and shoes throw her off, so she skates barefoot on her slippery soles and needs a ramp to build momentum. In the live-action series she grows so unsteady on bare feet that even a stray sneeze can send her skidding into a crash.

Alvida found and ate the fruit after Luffy beat her and before she fell in with Buggy, and it instantly melted away her old bulk and freckles, though her vanity kept her blind to the change. She relies on it chiefly to make attacks slide off and to glide over the ground at speed once she gets moving. Her one named technique, the Sube Sube Spur, sees Buggy's crew set up a ramp so she can slip down barefoot and race along at about the pace of Buggy's Bara Bara Car. The fruit also holds the distinction of being the earliest one shown to reshape how its eater looks on a permanent basis, purely as a side effect.