I'm tired of reading nonsense about how Kizaru couldn't injure Marco without seastone or Garp being wanked for giving him a few scratches when Kizaru literally had him spitting blood
I had to make an account real quick after seeing you (this is pwngoatvspandaman)
Anyway here's the jist of marco's power:
Marco when defending whitebeard wasn't using his own body as a shield, he was doing high speed rotations to create a wind shield of sorts, and when the weak mass produced lasers hit it, they had nowhere to go so they formed an orb (ie collapsed into each other):
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/v...est/scale-to-width-down/340?cb=20180905233128
He then flew towards kizaru, who shot at him, but due to intangibility (he has to be focused to do it unlike skilled logias), the lasers went through him harmlessly. We know he wasn't healing because of when he was actually hit earlier, and the fact that he was never pushed back by the lasers, they just went through him harmlessly and we see his eyes being calm as hell, showing no pain or reaction, also as we see later, his healing factor isn't instantaneous.
https://external-preview.redd.it/KL...bp&s=6d1e4269be25b9d6910fdf2b0a0deaba526d7e06
He used his zoan stat boost in strength to force his way through Kizaru's defense (kizaru might have had a bruise on his arm from the initial attack, the follow through with the zoan stats just ragdolled him), sending him flying towards the earth, kizaru turned to light so he could avoid the crash damage that a non logia would have to take
https://external-preview.redd.it/vN...bp&s=c9cab9745e85c13e4403eb3dcc689d4904a3a803
Later he was hit while turned away to worry about Whitebeard, and as we see, his reaction to being shot is night and day than before, his healing factor isn't as all encompassing as we thought previously, it's certainly great still, but it's not instant and might be more limited than most think. But at the same time, kizaru effectively didn't land a single hit in the fair fight while marco had a very marginal lead, to the point that it'd take hours, but marco would probably win.
https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11112/111128182/4019857-kizaru5.jpg
https://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/original/11112/111128182/4019858-kizaru6.jpg
In the end, he had a marginal advantage over kizaru in their FAIR fight, and if whitebeard hadn't got stabbed by squard, whitebeard wouldn't have had a heart attack, so whitebeard would have been 100% untouched, meaning marco wouldn't have to worry about him, meaning marco and jozu wouldn't have been hurt. Honestly speaking, if squard hadn't stabbed whitebeard, marineford would have ended with whitebeard maybe dropping akainu, marco and jozu fighting kizaru and aokiji for a while, garp and sengoku eventually join after akainu drops to hold off whitebeard, ace is freed, ace and luffy escape to whitebeard, and then the whitebeard pirates leave with ace with no real loss on both sides besides fodder and akainu's health for a week or 2. (and pride)
Marco now (he would get a boost from his increase in role as captain and losing the safety of a yonkou boss, opposite to the nerf chinjao got for retiring) > Marco at marineford > King > Katakuri > Ben Beckman (let's be honest, Kizaru made ben his little bitch). Kizaru is probably around King leveled, Akainu is probably around marco (both would get a respective boost at the same time), and Aokiji idk (but he seems to have future sight, which he used to avoid that whitebeard hit, future sight being an empathy link that he, katakuri, and luffy have, and sanji will get it eventually to prove to judge that empathy can be a strength in a tangible way)
Long time no see weeb rival, I'm a trash cosplayer and I'm on reddit with this same username.
Oh and let's be honest, Imu > Garp > Kaidou > Rest. Garp is likely going to be killed by Imu in the foreseeable future to hype up Imu.