Is it current BB's crew stronger than WB, Kaido or BM's crews?
Yes, why not? And given the fact that they´re being built up to defeat the red hair pirates, they should be the strongest Yonko crew.
I would say yes. But is this enough, considering who his father was?
Rocks and his crew are irrelevant, since the crew basically didn´t even function. We can´t have a final battle where half the crew dips or leaves their captain. The rocks pirates would also beat the strawhats by the end of the manga anyway. The standard for crews is still the Roger pirates, and the Blackbeard pirates do an okay job stacking up
Roger:Teach
Captain, Will of D, etc. Teach just went on a different path in DF merchant maxing instead of being a sword or Hakiman, but it doesn´t matter, Teach will surpass him, and most likely Rocks as well, and become the strongest of the will of D pirates since Davy jones. Additionally, both were seen trying to recruit a wife for them on the crew
Shiryu: Rayleigh
His meeting with Teach is similar to Rogers meeting with Rayleigh and Luffy´s meeting with Zoro. Both swordsman and sword focused characters, but Shiryu obviously has a fruit as well, maybe he can awaken instead of COC, or maybe he has both. I doubt he will ever be stronger then Prime Rayleigh though, but he will potentially beat Beckman, who has hype on the level of Shanks(though imo, I don´t think that is serious or really canon)
laffitte: Gaban Before Shiryu and Kuzan,he was the most important member of the crew, infiltrating Mariejois for them. He has no feats, but seems to have something like a wings dynamic, and like Gaban is the navigator of the crew. Only issue is that he has no feats, but neither did Gaban for many years. He will probably be weaker then Gaban always, though.
Kuzan:Oden
Odd man out and late joiners of the crew. Kuzan is maybe straight up stronger then Oden though, so that´s something
And is it enough considering where Straw Hats are heading?
Which is where,lol? Most of the strawhats are genuinely fodder. Outside of Luffy, who is a top tier, the strongest of the SHP can hope to have a quick clash with top tiers as seen on Egghead, but they genuinely stand no chance and have to run away. In this arc, half the crew was wrecked by Gunko, and Zoro and Sanji will end up having arc fights who are low diff´s to old Gaban even, which is hardly impressive.
