The YC1’s are in a different league though. Portrayal wise the YC1’s are far superior in terms of strength than the YC2’s, it’s been like this for a while now.
Keep using headcanon made up ranks. There are no YC1,YC2 or whatever.
The problem here is that you guys just give King the same portrayal like other Vice Captain/Right Hand/Strongest Subordinates etc. had - while he didn't had that portrayal himself.
Marco and Katakuri were clearly portrayed as the strongest and the most important members and were highlighted to be above the others. Everybody respected them.
King was not. Since his introduction he was always paired with Queen.
King even has to use Kaidou's name to call the Flying Six, because they don't listen to him lol
You guys are using the dinamic of the BMP and the WBP to model the Beast Pirates after, when reality shows something else.
Smoothie is closer to Cracker bounty wise than she is to Katakuri. While Queen is much closer to King than he is to Jack. Queen has 320mil. more than Jack and only 70mil. less than King. What tells you that?
Oda could have easily give Queen a 1,1-1,2bil. bounty to seperate him enough from King and follow the same dinamic he used for the BMP and WBP. But no, he made sure to put them both and Marco in the same 1,3bil. range.
Ofc Zorobois try to push King to oblivion - even if King would have a lower bounty than Queen they would come up with some random ass BS to say that King is above Queen and in a different league, just because he is fighting Zoro.
I mean we already had this nonsense with Hachi and Kuroobi - Kuroobi had 1mil. more than Hachi - yet Zorobois said that doesn't mean anything and that Hachi was stil stronger.