Your meaning of the word 'compete' is different to Kaido's.
A credible character gave us his top 5. This top 5 are the only people he believes can take him to the extremes. If your fave isn't there then get over it. Not interested in your rationalisations.
Sorry, can you point to the panel where Kaido said “only these 5 characters can compete with me”? I can’t seem to find that line anywhere. I do recall that Kaido say only a handful of the strongest can use aCOC, which coincidentally Big Mom can use.
Regardless, let me just rephrase a bit. You point to this scene as meaning these are the top 5 strongest characters. Thats a completely separate topic from what OP is trying to do, which is to push some weird agenda about how Mihawk is YC3 level. You are talking about completely things.
All I am trying to do is rebut the OP. Regardless of your ranking of them, characters I listed are without a doubt in the top-tier (could be rank 6 to 15, not the point). All I am saying is that not being in that scene doesn’t mean you are not among the top-tier.
I am just using the Big Mom example as the thread is literally how can Mihawk be Yonkou level and use aCOC if hes not in that panel, when Big Mom is literally a yonkou and can aCOC but is not included in that panel.