Whitebeard: "You got Xebec's attention. He wants to meet you."
Kaido: "If he's strong enough, I can be his partner."
Whitebeard: "He is stronger than you think."
Xebec>Roger.Told ya bitches
Oda's been implying it for a while. 3 future Yonkos on his crew and at least 2 future rivals of the next PK too. Roger and Garp needed each other to take on Xebec and the Rocks pirates, Xebec may just have been strong enough to require both of them. I don't think either of them solo'd the rest of the Rocks pirates, that would be ridiculous imo.
I thought Roger would be the strongest but given the reveals of Imu and Xebec and what we know about Xebec now especially as I just said too, I'm losing hope on that. Roger was still amazing when we finally saw him ofc but I'm begrudingly having to accept he may not have been the strongest after all.
At least he got to be Pirate King though and kickstart the new great pirate era and is worshipped/lauded by a lot of the world and isn't erased entirely from history and forgotten like Xebec.
Roger's still fucking awesome and I'm sure Xebec will be too, I'm slowly growing more hype for Xebec for various reasons and his design looks very promising if its matches his silhouette too. A lot of potential including being the first eyepatch pirate in OP too if its him who will have the eyepatch ofc. Plus any hype for Xebec ends up indirectly hyping Roger and vice versa even?
Awesome pirates are awesome too anyway. Stating the obvious but still lol. The more awesome pirates we see, the better! I wanna see how much of a truly chaotic, charismatic, cunning, strong bastard Xebec is given he had the likes of Whitebeard, Kaido, Big Mom and Shiki as freaking crewmates of his!