I'm at a loss for words that someone would take the editor hype notes of any manga to make any point about the canonicity of anything, much less for a power scaling argument.
They're literally empty hype.
Empty hype that was literally proven to be true the chapter afterwards?
Again, no wonder Rayleigh = Gaban is a shock to you. You refuse to believe what’s spoonfed to you and live in head canon land
In the context of "Oda doesn't care about your opinion of Wano", it was an example of how much Oda cared about the opinion of Kid fans who talked like you do. They thought Kid could do anything against Shanks and they were put in their place. That's Oda's opinion on the duo's performance vs Big Mom.
No, that’s Oda’s opinion on Shanks vs the rest of the Yonko. Shanks is just that much stronger than the rest of his competition
Shanks is all by intents and purposes the modern day Roger, and it’s no surprises that both the MC and the villain need to surpass him in order to reach the final step of the story.
Shanks is stronger than Big Mom, but not that much stronger. Big Mom went from "I one shot people with aCoC punches" to never trying to hit Kid or Law once with aCoC, it was pure PIS fight, and BOTH Kid and Law still came extremely short of being on her level. Neither of them would have pushed her 1 vs 1.
Unfortunately for your retarded scaling sense yes, Shanks is that much stronger than BM.
Again, Oda doesn’t care about your opinion. Shanks is being portrayed as a man in his own league, to the point where even his family members stand above characters in their same groupz
And Gear 2 pre-Marineford Luffy.
Since already user already reminded you of that fight and now you're pretending it didn't happen, I know you are being willingly disingenuous, which makes this whole conversation pointless.
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So are we ranking gear 2 Luffy with WB, Ace, Law, Garp and Sengoku
Or is the obvious answer that that it is an exception, and unlike Law we are literally told that Blackbeard would make quick work of Luffy right after? In fact Blackbeard vs Law was the direct opposite, where BB’s crew mate preferred to leave compared to Jinbe