One of the Biggest misconceptions in One Piece is that Blackbeard is weak, even now when he has more than one DF most of the people would say he's the weakest Yonko and maybe even weaker than Admirals.
EOS disease
I call it the EOS disease because characters suffer from it if they're meant to be EOS oponnents for MCs (or end of arc) oponnents. So why it is a disease? Well, because the auther can't show the full strength of a character before the final phase. Because of the EOS disease character like Blackbeard and Ace are considered to be weaker than they actually are.
Shanks vs Blackbeard
Blackbeard scarred Shanks back when he didn't have a DF or crew in his favor, it is very heavily implied that the fight itself happened in 1v1 between Blackbeard and Shanks, also around the same time Shanks had duels with Mihawk and Mihawk couldn't scarre Shanks while Blackbeard did.
This two things have been confirmed by Shanks himself in this panels.
Here is Shanks explaining Whitbeard that he was taking Blackbeard serious and wasn't careless, but Blackbeard still scarred Shanks while Shanks couldn't do the same and even says "DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY HERE" implaying that at the time of the fight Blackbeard was stronger then Shanks.
Well, you could say that Shanks later on became more powerful than Blackbeard? Fair enough, but if it was true then why didn't Shanks killed Blackbeard after that? Some of you (who have little bit of brains) would say that Blackbeard was part of Whitbeard's crew so Killing him was the same thing as to declare a war to Whitbeard. Fair enough again, but Blackbeard betrayed Wh and left the crew, but Shanks still didn't go after him?
On top of that he came to warn Wh about BB'S strength and how dangers he is.
Blackbeard is pirating two years after that and Shanks hasn't done anything to stop BB despite what BB did.
Blackbeard strength in Whitbeard's crew
People think that Blackbeard was hiding his strength from the crew (which is true to some degree) but you can't hide your haki, Blackbeard himself said that Luffy has become stronger since their first meeting by sensing his haki growth.
Also Rayleigh sensed the strength of beasts on rusukaina with his haki.
Someone like Whitbeard would for sure sense BB's haki and have brief understanding how strong he is and same goes for his crew members and that has been confirmed in the manga.
Here we can see that Whitbeard doesn't want Ace to go after Blackbeard dispite the fact Blackbeard committed the worst crime and killed his nakama, but why though?
Well, Because Whitbeard new that BB was much, much powerful than any of his crew members.
Other Yonkos
Blackbeard started to take Wh territories and did it successfully while other Yonko would try (and probably did try) take down an inexperienced Yonko who is also not as strong as them and does not have as much man power as they do for two years.
So far none of the Yonkos have said anything disrespectful about Blackbeard (as they did with Shichibukai and worstgen) and the reason for all of this is qoute simple, Blackbeard is just that strong. Blackbeard took wh territories ander the nose of other Yonkos and they did nathing, he's rivaling them for two years and does it very successfully.
Blackbeard's bad portrayal
In one piece community it is very well excepted thing that Big Mom has the worst portrayal amongst the Yonkos but in reality she has the best portrayal only after Whitbeard and Shanks.
Kaido was almost defeated by mere yc and Blackbeard well, let's talk about that.
Do you really think that Blackbeard who scarred Shanks, defeat Ace and fought against Sengoku has no CoO haki to dodge pre-timskip Luffy's attack or at the very least cover his body with CoA?
Or dodge Magellan's poison at the very least use his DF to counter Magellan's powers?
If you do then I can't do anything but to feel sorry for your mental health
Why all of this has been done?
In order to hide BB's true strength, everything about Blackbeard is made in way to confuse the reader: his powers made in a way that he needs to take damage, his multiple personalities (mostly the coward one) used to make him look weak.
Form all of this Ace suffered the most since Oda needed to hide his strength to, because after finding out how strong he is we could have some understanding how strong is BB, since he defeated Ace. The whole fight was off screened, we never find out how long was the fight or which kind of thecniques were used in that fight or what happened to that place where they fought all we new is that Blackbeard defeated Ace.
The Blackbeard vs Whitbeard fight was very fast since Wh was almost died at that time, Oda also used the caword part of Blackbeard (again) to make him look weak.
How strong was DF less Blackbeard?
I think he was solid Admiral level (maybe even Admiral+) which means Blackbeard>Mihawk. The Blackbeard situation will not change till the EOS fight against Luffy and Oda will continue portray him weak and hide his true powers.
EOS disease
I call it the EOS disease because characters suffer from it if they're meant to be EOS oponnents for MCs (or end of arc) oponnents. So why it is a disease? Well, because the auther can't show the full strength of a character before the final phase. Because of the EOS disease character like Blackbeard and Ace are considered to be weaker than they actually are.
Shanks vs Blackbeard
Blackbeard scarred Shanks back when he didn't have a DF or crew in his favor, it is very heavily implied that the fight itself happened in 1v1 between Blackbeard and Shanks, also around the same time Shanks had duels with Mihawk and Mihawk couldn't scarre Shanks while Blackbeard did.
This two things have been confirmed by Shanks himself in this panels.
Here is Shanks explaining Whitbeard that he was taking Blackbeard serious and wasn't careless, but Blackbeard still scarred Shanks while Shanks couldn't do the same and even says "DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY HERE" implaying that at the time of the fight Blackbeard was stronger then Shanks.
Well, you could say that Shanks later on became more powerful than Blackbeard? Fair enough, but if it was true then why didn't Shanks killed Blackbeard after that? Some of you (who have little bit of brains) would say that Blackbeard was part of Whitbeard's crew so Killing him was the same thing as to declare a war to Whitbeard. Fair enough again, but Blackbeard betrayed Wh and left the crew, but Shanks still didn't go after him?
On top of that he came to warn Wh about BB'S strength and how dangers he is.
Blackbeard is pirating two years after that and Shanks hasn't done anything to stop BB despite what BB did.
Blackbeard strength in Whitbeard's crew
People think that Blackbeard was hiding his strength from the crew (which is true to some degree) but you can't hide your haki, Blackbeard himself said that Luffy has become stronger since their first meeting by sensing his haki growth.
Also Rayleigh sensed the strength of beasts on rusukaina with his haki.
Someone like Whitbeard would for sure sense BB's haki and have brief understanding how strong he is and same goes for his crew members and that has been confirmed in the manga.
Here we can see that Whitbeard doesn't want Ace to go after Blackbeard dispite the fact Blackbeard committed the worst crime and killed his nakama, but why though?
Well, Because Whitbeard new that BB was much, much powerful than any of his crew members.
Other Yonkos
Blackbeard started to take Wh territories and did it successfully while other Yonko would try (and probably did try) take down an inexperienced Yonko who is also not as strong as them and does not have as much man power as they do for two years.
So far none of the Yonkos have said anything disrespectful about Blackbeard (as they did with Shichibukai and worstgen) and the reason for all of this is qoute simple, Blackbeard is just that strong. Blackbeard took wh territories ander the nose of other Yonkos and they did nathing, he's rivaling them for two years and does it very successfully.
Blackbeard's bad portrayal
In one piece community it is very well excepted thing that Big Mom has the worst portrayal amongst the Yonkos but in reality she has the best portrayal only after Whitbeard and Shanks.
Kaido was almost defeated by mere yc and Blackbeard well, let's talk about that.
Do you really think that Blackbeard who scarred Shanks, defeat Ace and fought against Sengoku has no CoO haki to dodge pre-timskip Luffy's attack or at the very least cover his body with CoA?
Or dodge Magellan's poison at the very least use his DF to counter Magellan's powers?
If you do then I can't do anything but to feel sorry for your mental health
Why all of this has been done?
In order to hide BB's true strength, everything about Blackbeard is made in way to confuse the reader: his powers made in a way that he needs to take damage, his multiple personalities (mostly the coward one) used to make him look weak.
Form all of this Ace suffered the most since Oda needed to hide his strength to, because after finding out how strong he is we could have some understanding how strong is BB, since he defeated Ace. The whole fight was off screened, we never find out how long was the fight or which kind of thecniques were used in that fight or what happened to that place where they fought all we new is that Blackbeard defeated Ace.
The Blackbeard vs Whitbeard fight was very fast since Wh was almost died at that time, Oda also used the caword part of Blackbeard (again) to make him look weak.
How strong was DF less Blackbeard?
I think he was solid Admiral level (maybe even Admiral+) which means Blackbeard>Mihawk. The Blackbeard situation will not change till the EOS fight against Luffy and Oda will continue portray him weak and hide his true powers.
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