I like Shiryu’s fruit a lot, he’s my personal favorite YC at the moment (thanks Oda for ruining Katakuri) but that fruit is just too weak to compete with Kuzan’s. And even Burgess looking like the world’s strongest man right now lol, Shiryu’s fruit is good not great.
Well here is a thing and I told
@SakazOuki this as well
Shiryu without his fruit is already very OP
Just with his Swordsmanship, AdvCoA and AdvCoC or what ever he has he can match this
Magallen was strong enough to make this group run away in fear
It includes Revolutionary Commander and Two Pirates who would in future get 1.9 and 1.1 Billion bounties without any power ups. 2 Warlords.
We can talk about AoE of Magallen's fruit, Crowd Control etc but portrayal matters more. It is similar to WBP Remnants running away from Akainu.
And then comes effectiveness of Magallen's fruit in crowd control but as I told him, Crowd control is probably most important requirement of the job. He was a head warden in a facility where there are dozens if not 100s of commander level criminals, riots can break out at anytime, Shiryu has to handle all of that with his swordsmanship.
That's why I am saying Shiryu started out alredy too overpowered, easily low top tier, above any commander, Law, Midd and probably on par with current Zoro.
He got a hax devil fruit on top of that which probably negates CoO And he probably awakened that as well.
That should be enough to put him above Aokiji, or at least its not far fetched.