Being hailed as a legend, and scaring off Blackbeard while simultaneously having a lower bounty than Blackbeard in his prime doesn’t make sense to me I’m sorry.
And that’s kinda my main point, Rayleigh as a person has enough hype alone to warrant a 4 billion berry bounty. If oda wrote it as he didn’t have much hype but was just the subordinate of Roger, yeah 3ish would make sense. But that’s not how he’s treated imo.
I don't think bounty is a 1-1 representation of pedigree. So it isn't as simple as higher bounty = higher pedigree especially when you're comparing a Captain to a Subordinate.
Simplest example of this is Luffy and Zoro for instance, do you think a 2bil gap is truly an accurate representative of how the two of them stack against each other pedigree wise?
A bounty of 3bil+ does not mean that Rayleigh is any less than a Yonko. Again, I'd say remove the Yonko bounties from your head for a moment and look at the Yonko Commanders instead. The 3bil range in comparison to 1 bil range is world's apart and an accurate enough representation of a Rayleigh's prestige in my opinion.
See the admirals for example, who have a similar leader subordinate subordinate relationship (i.e. Fleet Admiral > Admirals hierarchy wise). These guys who are pretty much on par with the Yonko are in the 3bil range. Ray even in the 3bil range is likely to have a higher bounty than even the Admirals. Isn't that quite a bit of prestige in itself though?
We can disagree on this though.
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Because zoro will close in soon or later but not now. End of elbaf I can see zoro hitting 3B or close to 3Billion and luffy hitting 4+ Billion.
Zoro isn’t the level of ray/benn yet
His reputation isn’t know like them or even strong as luffy like ray/benn was with their captain.
I say this mainly because Benn and ray have the vice captain title unlike zoro
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Honestly we gotta wait for Benn bounty so we can estimate ray bounty
if Benn is around 3-3.9B then we can assume ray is around 4B
On the bolded bit, people have been saying this for as long as I can remember, I'm still waiting for it to happen lol
In my humble opinion it's not going to happen and there's strong evidence in the manga to back that. Hell even the Fleet Admiral has a 2bil bounty higher than the rest of the admirals but I digress.
I'm open minded on the possibility of Benn potentially shaking things up though, who knows this 60% percentage could increase but we'll see. Keep in mind though that assuming Benn's bounty conforms to Zoro's pattern of 60% it'd mean he'd have a bounty 2.4bil which is a whole bil more than the other top Yonko commanders. I'd say this is strong enough to indicate that Benn is built different from the rest of the so called YC1s. What you're implying is that Benn is going to be even more than that but again we'll see