Imagine that you have few fighters in your subbordinates whi never fight in any real battle, and bad in battle overall. While you are commander, so what you will do? Give em swords or other weapons, or just leave em be, with barehands?))
Answer is obvious.
If your subordinates are weak, giving them weapons doesnt change the results, their chances of dying are the same as if they are barehanded if we are talking one piece lol
Bruh this was your question:
How exactly barehand user could be on same line?
I proved how. Most barehanded users are already masters of a martial art once they do not carry a weapon. Giving random shmucks weapons in general dont give them advantage if they arent skilled with them, nor if they are weaker in general.
Only gives them an advantage over people that are just as shit lol, and i dont think this thread is talking about fodder in particular
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In general yes but if the non weapon users have better skill than the weapon users then the non weapon users would be way better overall.
This is something people are failing to grasp, acting like Lufffy wasnt fighting equally with Zoro back in whiskey peak despite him not having swords lol