Again with the Vista thing, its like you dont read OP at all. Mihawk vs Zoro should already explain everything. Its the same cope that people use to downplay Mihawk when he went after Luffy. They deliberately ignore the part where Mihawk tests Luffys fate. He wants to test Vista properly in a duel instead of fighting in a war where Vista has other mission. He wants to test Luffys fate instead of defeating Luffy since he already knows he is levels above Luffy.
How many times I have to say I am bringing Vista up exactly to point out everyone can have bad shownings depending on the plot?
GB getting forced out of DF by Shanks from miles away is not remotely similar to this. I dont care what happened after this, I never include that in the debate.
No shit you didn't: it counters the slander and makes clear that Aramaki wasn't unwilling at all. Only all RHP made him back off, as for Kaido (with King too in his case).
Anyway, Aramaki cheapshotted alone >> 4 Gorosei, that's beyond arguable.
You can give any arbitrary number to it you want. I dont care about the whataboutism. How much Shanks used against GB, how much was JBs against Gorosei and Marines. I see that one resulted in the solo sky split (probably the first in the series) and the other didnt. Just like there are different levels of haki release e.g. Zoro has basic, black, KoH, KoH 3 Sword Serpent etc. so most likely are different levels of CoC bursts.
Shanks' haki was compared to Joy Boy's. There is no going around that, so you can try to downplay that scene but the haki used on Aramaki was similar to the one that made Ryokugyu only de-transform.
I rate Venus below Shanks and Mihawk. Mihawk > Shanks > Venus. He does have the Shodai so thats very impressive but I hold Mihawk and Shanks as top two.
Ok, but how high? Again, in 4vs1 he was sent panting to Marijoa, de transformed.