Current Events New Yonko do not have the same prestige as OG Yonko
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What these guys have said is true. It's about experience and longevity, something I've agreed with ever since the OG Yonko bounties were revealed.
Most people would agree that Shanks is probably stronger than Big Mom, yet she has over 300M on him. Sure, you can maybe say that she has more territory or a bigger crew/fleet (headcanon), but Shanks canonically has the most hyped commanders out of the OG Yonko.
To me, it was pretty evident with the line that Shanks "is the newest/youngest of the 4 Yonko" that it was essentially a justification for his bounty being the lowest.
Most people would agree that Shanks is probably stronger than Big Mom, yet she has over 300M on him. Sure, you can maybe say that she has more territory or a bigger crew/fleet (headcanon), but Shanks canonically has the most hyped commanders out of the OG Yonko.
To me, it was pretty evident with the line that Shanks "is the newest/youngest of the 4 Yonko" that it was essentially a justification for his bounty being the lowest.
Wow that Shanks is such a meanie. He should have let Kid kill his entire fleet before attacking him
Oda messed up with the SCs bounties. Remember that prior to Wano, he had BB at a measly 2.2B and had to retcon it to 3.99B post-Wano. If Oda wrote their bounties post Wano, the SCs bounties would be ~200M higher than they were
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Oda messed up with the SCs bounties. Remember that prior to Wano, he had BB at a measly 2.2B and had to retcon it to 3.99B post-Wano. If Oda wrote their bounties post Wano, the SCs bounties would be ~200M higher than they were
I agree that bounties cannot be used for outright powerscaling.
There is still some logic to it, though.
Shanks has the lowest bounty among the OG group because he is the youngest and wasn't really all that of an active threat. Guy is a party monster, not a monster monster like Blackbeard.
Whitebeard is the highest despite not being a psycho, simply because he was basically an uncrowned Pirate King and an old fossil so he had time to accumulate the bounty.
Big Mom and Kaido are in between. Not as old as Whitebeard and likely not as strong as Shanks, but both were psychos and quite active in the pirating world.
Blackbeard has bounty almost equal to Shanks despite being Yonko for much shorter period of time because he a) is actively hostile and b) has killed Whitebeard in full view of the world (yeah, he needed help to do that, but still...).
Buggy is useless AF, but the Marines don't know that, and his Cross Guild is actively hunting Marines, making him much more of an active threat than the likes of Shanks or Luffy.
There is still some logic to it, though.
Shanks has the lowest bounty among the OG group because he is the youngest and wasn't really all that of an active threat. Guy is a party monster, not a monster monster like Blackbeard.
Whitebeard is the highest despite not being a psycho, simply because he was basically an uncrowned Pirate King and an old fossil so he had time to accumulate the bounty.
Big Mom and Kaido are in between. Not as old as Whitebeard and likely not as strong as Shanks, but both were psychos and quite active in the pirating world.
Blackbeard has bounty almost equal to Shanks despite being Yonko for much shorter period of time because he a) is actively hostile and b) has killed Whitebeard in full view of the world (yeah, he needed help to do that, but still...).
Buggy is useless AF, but the Marines don't know that, and his Cross Guild is actively hunting Marines, making him much more of an active threat than the likes of Shanks or Luffy.
That doesn’t really work since Blackbeard had a measly 2.24 billion after killing WB in full view of the world.
Blackbeard himself is a party monster, and the only thing we see him do since the start of the time skip (attacking Amazon Lily) was after he already had 3.99 billion. It looks like he’s been mostly just partying on Beehive, even telling Moriah to chill out when the latter invaded.
All that aside, the difference in bounty between Shanks and WB (despite decades of time between them) is almost the same as between Luffy’s suppressed bounty and Shank’s after just a month.
If one can accept Shanks being on a similar level to WB based on that, it would be hypocritical to deny the same for Luffy.
Blackbeard himself is a party monster, and the only thing we see him do since the start of the time skip (attacking Amazon Lily) was after he already had 3.99 billion. It looks like he’s been mostly just partying on Beehive, even telling Moriah to chill out when the latter invaded.
All that aside, the difference in bounty between Shanks and WB (despite decades of time between them) is almost the same as between Luffy’s suppressed bounty and Shank’s after just a month.
If one can accept Shanks being on a similar level to WB based on that, it would be hypocritical to deny the same for Luffy.
Lucci and the Admirals seem to underestimate Luffy. They don’t view him as a real Yonko. If Luffy does well against Kizaru, that will all change and he’ll receive a proper bounty this time. I just don’t see the SH’s losing to Kizaru a second time. That and the fact that Morgans is here seems to indicate that the SH’s will successfully repel the WG.
I think Law, Moria, and Weevil will join Buggy, boosting his bounty to the 4 billions.
Meanwhile Luffy will reach 4 billion by beating Kizaru
He even validates that Kid was as strong as he expected when he used future sight
Meanwhile Luffy will reach 4 billion by beating Kizaru
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Anyway, I just remembered, but Shanks himself uses bounty to powerscale Kidd:
