Aight fair enough that makes sense I concede, I didnt think about 956/957 when I was thinking about those bounties. You win this debate and that proves my argument wrong
Now only thing left is skills coz Oda is already dead set to hype up Shanks as current strongest.
Look he even has the highest bounty amongst the active pirates...
As I said earlier, I dont think Shichibukai bounties are boosted in anyway, they're just really powerful individual pirates who the community underrated for so long.
Nahh. First Crocodile and now Boa made it completely looks true that there titles and former affiliations with WG are affecting bounties.
Crocodile's case is same as old, no strength revelation but considering him being around or above YC1 level but below even half yonko, he got around 600 to 900M boost in comparison to King or Katakuri. Compared with them other than Zoro only coz they both are quite notorious crew in threat just like CG.
While Boa Hancock got 1.6B but with her unique/fearsome DF abilities she might have oneshot Vasco and Catalina but she herself got captured easily by BB as well. Couldn't even evade or counter BB with haki. I believe she's at most YC level but but still got more bounty than even Luffy who defeated two commanders far stronger than BBs current two commanders at amazon lily and survived against BM. Here Compared with Luffy coz he's captain as well just like Boa and situation is quite similar.
Jimbei's previous bounty was around 400M but without defeating YC he got above 1B mark and sitting at the same level as Zoro. Again around 700M boost.
So what would you believe about there bounties in comparison to there capabilities and strength if not boosted due to affiliation with WG.
But why would Marines wait for two weeks to issue bounties for Warlords if they are already sending their fleets to capture the same?
It's not about waiting for two weeks. It's only because two Emperors seats have to be filled up with new one and than updating everything with that like current events of BB too at Amazon lily (especially cobys abduction).