Gaban bagged Ripley? Cool. Then Oda makes Shakky canonically the world's most popular woman during her era, who has legendary top-tiers falling for her, and her absence even crashes the global economy for weeks. Yet she only falls for Rayleigh.

Gaban gets some feats but fails to save Colon? Then the God Valley flashback begins shortly after, where Rayleigh ends up successfully saving Shakky.

This was the most obvious stock to invest in for weeks.
 
Nah. Kaido spoke about oden as if oden could still beat him in his prime. That dudes getting a 4Billion bounty
but bounty is not about strength alone
He was just a pirate for a short time and his captain WB had probably a lower bounty 24 years ago
Ray and Gaban were not only longer active but also Wings of the PK
Strength, threat lvl, your actions, your group + your position within the group influence your bounty
 
but bounty is not about strength alone
He was just a pirate for a short time and his captain WB had probably a lower bounty 24 years ago
Ray and Gaban were not only longer active but also Wings of the PK
Strength, threat lvl, your actions, your group + your position within the group influence your bounty
If Loki with no real crew and prevalence can get 2.6 in 6 years a man who was riding and captaining his own ship alongside Whitebeard and then traveling with Roger to find the hidden secrets of the world can get 4 billion in 5.
 
If Rayleigh's hype is him flexing his COC on some Celestial Dragon to save Shakky then not sure if I'm satisfied.
Maybe cut some God Knight in the process
I'm not gonna lie it's kinda hard to create hype moments for characters that we already know are top tiers

Like let's say Rayleigh defeats one of the God's Knights this chapter. We just saw Old Gaban maul Sommers in like 2-3 pages

Even running the gauntlet against the Knights wouldn't be very impressive from a monster like Prime Rayleigh

The whole fiasco surrounding Gaban was only a big deal because the entire community had different opinions on where he scaled. With Rayleigh we already know he's supposed to be strong so there isn't much he could do to surprise us

That's part of the reason why it's more fun discussing downplayed characters tbh. Like you won't really see me saying much about characters like Luffy or Whitebeard because pretty much everyone loves them
 
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