Why ? this is the first manga that I read that the enemies are constantly clowned/downplayed while the allies get an overwhelming amount of shine especially towards the final sagas
Like the recent red film movie made me realize like wtf is shanks' crew , it's literally another Pirate King level crew but it's on our side and we fucking only had 3 of those first with Xebec then Roger and now Shanks
Newgate/LinLin/Shiki Rayleigh/Gaban/Oden Beckman/Roo/Yasopp all characters seem above the admirals and future emperors if they wanted to but like why the fuck would Oda do this to Shanks' crew instead of Blackbeard the one we're gonna actually fight
Does anyone really believe that Shiryu or Pizzaro could be emperors ? or could even battle admirals ? .... And Blackbeard Pirates is the only pirate crew that could even come close to an enemy , Kid's Law's and Buggy's are a joke compared to the StrawHats now
And on the WG side it's even worse, the admirals downplay has hits a new low every other chapter that they are not considered a threat anymore and CP0's top dogs were beaten by Izo like wtf ... And what is even the point of hyping up Sabo at the expense of 2 ADMIRALS
Like the end game looks rough for tension , does anyone believe Luffy and his legion have any chance of losing vs the WG or any pirate group ? we needed someone like Xebec who has multiple emperors under him and we needed marine like Garp and Sengoku that all gave Roger a good fight before pirate king
3 Admirals
1 Fleet Admiral
World Government Military Commander in Chief
Uranus
Vegapunk, SSG army and the strongest SSG
The Knights of God and the leader / strongest Knight, maybe few guys and at least the strongest Knight is sure to be at the level of Admiral or Big Mom or even Emperor
Gorosei, i think each of the 5 is at the level of Admiral
Imu, who i think is the most powerful character ever, significantly more than anyone
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About the Red Hair, i think Shanks will ally with Luffy only after Luffy surpass him or his test or whatever. Before that, i think it will be a 3-way fight between L vs BB vs S. But Beckmann Lucky Roux etc...i dont think each of them as above Admirals. I dont think they are at Admiral level, even, still below, whatever slightly.
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About this thread overall,
I think World Government is still stronger than the alliance and friends, but not as much. So it's a near equal of a match. And...even when the chances were slimmer in Wano, but Oda always wrote asspull powerups and nerfs to the villain so the tension instantly plummeted.
So since it's the writing quality itself that is subpar...i dont think whatever imbalance the powerscaling that exists will affect the storytelling itself, since Oda WILL make fake hypes for the enemies and ruin the tension whenever he feels like it anyway.