It looks like you mangled some names there so I'm not quite sure what that means. It sort of sounds like trying to have it both ways, stating that the Shichibukai didn't do much while taking on some of the premiere crew (Oars, Jozu, Vista) but that their relative lack of accomplishments doesn't speak to their strength.
The "vast majority of the time" is something pointless that I won't defend or argue, because the on panel time for these characters isn't a sufficient case. If we say that Dofy, one of the strongest antagonists, spent most of his time fighting Croc, then it's pretty dumb whether you're talking him up or down based on what we actually know about their respective strength as individuals.
The WB side getting a buff is cancelled out by BB showing up and attacking him head on, Hancock's vague but helpful showing can be argued to be along the lines of WB being seriously injured by a betraying ally. Jinbe is a massive help, Ivankov is just as good... but then Luffy is like the distant third best from Impel Down. All they really provided was numbers. It's not worth arguing to me that the kinda guys who would listen to Buggy did as much damage as a fresh Shiryu or Pizarro attacking the wounded.
Akainu couldn't score on WB without being seriously injured himself. You might want to think that Akainu is tough enough to take him on man to man and that's not a poor argument... but I don't think he'd talk Squard into literally backstabbing the guy if he was entirely confident himself.
Oh and Garp was useless but... Sengoku had his hit tanked by a Luffy on the verge of collapsing, lol
I never said anything about Garp making it to admiral or not so it's pretty weird to bring up. Garp knew those guys from his generation well enough to imply that taking on the former first mate of Roger and WB at the same time was too much. Rayleigh and WB are both repeated to be out of their prime or rusty.
I'm not convinced of anything by mentioning how they're lumped together, especially in the context of Luffy fighting an admiral as he said that. Akainu is basically his sworn enemy because of what happened, and yet his plan is mentioned to both Law and Hyo as taking down four emperors... other pirates put before the Marine forces. I don't remember the admirals being a goal of Kidd either but maybe I'm forgetting something?
uh you started out great but your conclusion is off base
may I remind you that when luffy said he wanted to be pk coby responded by saying he will be an admiral and luffy admitted, he has to get to that point to take him on in the near future. using kid a pirate who obviously doesnt have a marine position in mind is awfully bad.
No pirate wants to be a naval admiral and no marine wants to be a yonko. Also important to mention, kid's goal is to be the pk
not a yonko. another flaw in your argument.
According to the manga old wb was still considered the strongest pirate in the sea by buggy, by kong and sengoku. you can choose to refute that as yonko fans do but I'll be glad to supply the panels.
"Akainu couldn't score on WB without being seriously injured himself. You might want to think that Akainu is tough enough to take him on man to man and that's not a poor argument... but I don't think he'd talk Squard into literally backstabbing the guy if he was entirely confident himself."
akainu is strong enough to take him one on one
whether it was their df's matching each other in output
not sure you want to argue squardo's stab made his punches weaker
or
a comparison of the damage that they both dealt
point being akainu looked pretty healthy at the end of the war. after his clash with wb he went on to handle jimbei, ivankov
by the time the clash was over , wb was pretty much a living vegetable.
another scene of the remnant of wb pirates in an attempt to stop akainu but he succeeded in hurting luffy
this remnant btw was roughly enough to promote BB to the new yonko position.
and last but not least
I would argue bb with the gura gura nomi and the darkness fruit is a lot more afraid of akainu
than shanks and his entire crew.
oh on sengoku and luffy
visit bigmom chopper. that was great as well lmao.