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If someone eats a devil fruit, they can get some power depending on the fruit
that they eat. The side effect for eating this fruit is that the user cannot
swim.

How about the artificial devil fruits that are made by Dr. Vegapunk? Is it the
case that people that eat artificial devil fruits also can't swim and are
weakened by the sea?


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Do artificial devil fruits also prevent the user from swimming?


Yes they cannot swim!

This fruit grants the general weaknesses a natural Devil Fruit would, as shown
when Momonosuke could not swim.

You can find it on the Wikia:
<http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Artificial_Devil_Fruit>


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Yes, artificial devil fruit users suffer from the same weakness has the
"natural" devil fruit counterparts: they cannot swim. This was shown in
Chapter 795, page 6:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZitMg.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ZitMg.jpg)

I would like to add something in response to Namikaze Sheena's comment. First
of all, to be precise, it is not that devil fruit users cannot swim, but
rather they become **powerless** when their body is submerged in water. As a
consequence, they cannot swim or even move at all.

Now, if Vegapunk were to feed a devil fruit to a boat, I think (this is pure
speculation) it would not sink: the boat floats because wood is lighter than
water, which is a physical property that it would keep even on top of water.
It would lose strength, but maybe not completely as we have previously seen
Luffy retain control of his body if only a fraction of it is submerged (e.g.
on their way to fishman island, Chapter 605, page 11).

**EDIT:**

On the above picture, we can somewhat see Brook and Momosuke (in dragon's
form) drowning. Here is a picture of Momosuke is his Zoan form:

[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7He0p.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/7He0p.jpg)


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