The 162nd One Piece episode pins Chopper against the priest Shura, whose fiery spear sets the Going Merry ablaze. As the reindeer signals for help and waits on Gan Fall, the forest trio fends off sky predators and Luffy braces for Satori's next strike.
Seeking to keep Pagaya and Conis beyond the reach of Enel's listening power, Gan Fall shelters the pair at his residence, where the so-called Mantra cannot detect them. He muses aloud that the visiting Straw Hats are probably pirates from the lower sea, then points out that living outside the law is no different from the position Conis and her father now occupy. He also recalls the unresolved conflict with the Shandia, a peace he had been negotiating until Enel usurped the throne, and how that war traces back to a melody that once rang out and is meant to ring again.
When the warning whistle reaches Pierre, Gan Fall rushes off to reach Chopper. By then Shura and his giant bird Fuza are already battering the ship, and the outmatched reindeer can do little. Far away, Nami repeatedly nearly falls prey to sky sharks, with Zoro and Robin pulling her clear each time.
Shura grows frustrated that Chopper will neither surrender his life, accept harm to his crew, nor watch the vessel burn, yet lacks the strength to resist. The priest declares that because some intended sacrifices slipped away, Chopper must perish in their place, a death meant to haunt the escapees. He readies the killing blow, but Gan Fall touches down at that instant and engages him directly. Elsewhere, Luffy shakes off Satori's earlier assault only to face another heavy attack from the surprise-ball fighter.

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The installment adapts material from chapters 248 and 249. Marking Satori's technique debut, it features Bikkuri Tamakazura: Tama Dragon. A continuity slip appears during Gan Fall's speech to Pagaya and Conis, when Conis's eyes shift from turquoise to brown. The chapter falls within the Skypiea storyline.
No, Chopper does not defeat Shura in Episode 162. The outmatched reindeer can do little against Shura and his giant bird Fuza, and it is the arriving Gan Fall who steps in to engage the priest directly.
In Episode 162, Shura and his giant bird Fuza attack Chopper and the Going Merry while Gan Fall shelters Pagaya and Conis from Enel's Mantra. Gan Fall arrives just in time to engage Shura himself, while Luffy braces for another of Satori's attacks in the forest.
Shura declares that because some of his intended sacrifices slipped away, Chopper must perish in their place as a death meant to haunt the escapees.
Gan Fall shelters Pagaya and Conis at his residence because his home is a place where Enel's Mantra, which lets him listen in on people, cannot detect them.
Episode 162 marks the debut of Satori's technique Bikkuri Tamakazura: Tama Dragon.
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