I hope Katakuri was brought along, might as well thrown in Cracker too and a fleet of Big Mom soldiers. The situation for the BMP is looking precarious depending on which WB Pirates have shown up. We're not finding out the full roll call this chapter. Marco with his main boys could reasonably take out the BMP for good:
Marco > Smoothie
Jozu > Snack (if he's actually there)
Vista > Perospero
Nekomamushi > Daifuku
Izo >= Compote
The most important part is how very few DF users the Whitebeard Pirates has in general, just Marco/Jozu/Blamenco and Marco flies so he's a tremendous asset rather than a liability in sea battles. That gives them inherent naval superiority. They are free to destroy the Queen Mama Chanter while losing their own ship in the process, because pretty much all of them will just swim anyway. If the BMP get sunk, they lose all their strongest fighters and possibility Snack and Compote who may be unconfirmed DF users.
Obviously, a defeat at sea is anti-climatic and therefore not a good prediction to make. I do expect there to be a reason as to how the BMP survive this and still make it to Onigashima. It would be nice to get Weevil wrapped up in this and finally bring him into the plot, but my suspicion right now is that Marco is lacking manpower and the BMP eventually realize and get around that.
