I never intended this as a powerscaling thread , but here's my piece on it :
Yes Prime Newgate and Roger were monstrous pirate that's something i don't doubt but let me start by saying "PK" title doesn't mean strength , Luffy rn is one of the closest ppl to get to LaughTell and be crowned yet no one thinks he's ready to 1v1 a top tier yet ... it was never about strength , it's just that the path to get that is hard
Now you saying "Washed up" WB was causing a troubles is straight up lying when in MF all what he did is damage structures and going up against the 3 admirals , all 3 outmatched him ...
I think you confuse being a Yonko doesn't mean that Kaido/BM/WB are having a duel every few weeks , in fact the story tells us that the Yonko meetings are so rare in the past 20 years so getting a strength judgement from that is just laughable especially when we know for a FACT WB doesn't have a Rio Ponyglyph so why would Kaido/BM/Shanks go after him ? seems pointless.
Back to my point the series is about to End , if you don't think Blackbeard , Dragon , Sakazuki , Mihawk at least these 4 are stronger than the Prime old legends than they will never be ... Cause to put it as simply as possible there's no "EOS" status that's bs fandom came up with to justify some powerscaling , from now til Luffy finds LaughTell , One Piece and the final war it's probably gonna be a couple of months in OP time
Only the MCs are the ones that progress exponentially in that amount of time and if you want to pull out the classic "BB 3rd DF" theory to make him the strongest then sure but I personally believe most characters rn are far superior than older generation ...
Also as someone else mentioned the diff in strength is almost unnoticeable in OP in top tiers it always evolve in matchups , even by the end of the series Luffy , Zoro and Sanji will never have an easy fight
Lastly this is about Mihawk exactly , "Mihawk became famous before the great Pirate era even started" do you know how old Mihawk is right ? 43 years old and you know when the Pirate Era started ? 24 years ago
Meaning Mihawk when he was 19 years old or younger was world rounend and famous something that hasn't been achieved in the story by other than the Main character himself
This is a bit strange to ask but was it ever confirmed that "Black Swords" are made by the user and it's not just a type of metal ? cause the only time i recall it being mentioned was in Dressrosa in the Mihawk and he was referring to infusing blades with Haki and not permantly changing their colors
Yes Prime Newgate and Roger were monstrous pirate that's something i don't doubt but let me start by saying "PK" title doesn't mean strength , Luffy rn is one of the closest ppl to get to LaughTell and be crowned yet no one thinks he's ready to 1v1 a top tier yet ... it was never about strength , it's just that the path to get that is hard
Now you saying "Washed up" WB was causing a troubles is straight up lying when in MF all what he did is damage structures and going up against the 3 admirals , all 3 outmatched him ...
I think you confuse being a Yonko doesn't mean that Kaido/BM/WB are having a duel every few weeks , in fact the story tells us that the Yonko meetings are so rare in the past 20 years so getting a strength judgement from that is just laughable especially when we know for a FACT WB doesn't have a Rio Ponyglyph so why would Kaido/BM/Shanks go after him ? seems pointless.
Back to my point the series is about to End , if you don't think Blackbeard , Dragon , Sakazuki , Mihawk at least these 4 are stronger than the Prime old legends than they will never be ... Cause to put it as simply as possible there's no "EOS" status that's bs fandom came up with to justify some powerscaling , from now til Luffy finds LaughTell , One Piece and the final war it's probably gonna be a couple of months in OP time
Only the MCs are the ones that progress exponentially in that amount of time and if you want to pull out the classic "BB 3rd DF" theory to make him the strongest then sure but I personally believe most characters rn are far superior than older generation ...
Also as someone else mentioned the diff in strength is almost unnoticeable in OP in top tiers it always evolve in matchups , even by the end of the series Luffy , Zoro and Sanji will never have an easy fight
Lastly this is about Mihawk exactly , "Mihawk became famous before the great Pirate era even started" do you know how old Mihawk is right ? 43 years old and you know when the Pirate Era started ? 24 years ago
Meaning Mihawk when he was 19 years old or younger was world rounend and famous something that hasn't been achieved in the story by other than the Main character himself
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This is a bit strange to ask but was it ever confirmed that "Black Swords" are made by the user and it's not just a type of metal ? cause the only time i recall it being mentioned was in Dressrosa in the Mihawk and he was referring to infusing blades with Haki and not permantly changing their colors