Which One Piece arcs break this pattern?
Crew arrives on new island
Crew gets split up
They each encounter the main villains and are defeated
The group survives somehow and is reunited
They fight the villains again and kick their butts
As much as I love One Piece, you'd think this trope would be broken more often... I was kinda disappointed for Luffy to get a huge power boost right before Fishman Island only for the same thing to happen again.