They have no answer to this. They take Oda's info and fail to put it into Manga terms. The boost people receive for being under a strong captain is very low. And they're trying to argue that if they were their own independent captains their bounties would be lower... like what?
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Oda always goes out of his way to point out when a bounty is related to measuring somebody's strength strength and when it's not he never connects the two. Consider that WB pirates were very dormant during the Great Pirate Era after Shiki & Roger had left the seas, in contrast to the likes of BM & Kaido who raided Islands and even destroyed them. Hence none of the bounties for WB pirate commanders have ever been connected to strength. Even from Kaido's crew, Queen & Jack's bounties were connected to their strength but not King's.
Calamities = more about being dangerous (creatinh chaos, torturing others) than being skilled/ strong
SCs = more about their skills and strengths than being cruel pirates
WBP trio = more about being associated with WB and also fighting wars
RHP trio = earned their own fame...more about their skills/ strengths.
Compare Cracker with Jack hype
Cracker isn't hyped as a maniac when mentioning his bounty, its all about his skills.
Same with Katakuri being hyped more for skills via bounty while King and Queen are hyped for being calamities to society.
In fact BM commanders don't go around destroying nations, they aren't creating mass murder weapons too.
Even Smoothie who juices others wasn't hyped to be insane like calamities.
Clearly Calamities are worth 1B max power wise! Lowest bounty should be 700 M :
For me Commanders real bounties :
1.2-1.5 B : Benn ?
1B : Katakuri 1.057 B, Marco 1.074 B or 1.174 B.
900Ms : King 939 M, Queen 932 M
800 Ms: Cracker 800 M
700Ms :Smoothie 793.2 M, Jack 770 M
Jack and Pero are relative so Jack can't be worth above 800M or 850 M!
Katakuri matched the luffy who got 1.5 B, he has top tier skills and stats and was twice above <500M Luffy> in power and fame as stated & shown when they fought. So yeah Katakuri is worth his bounty 1B+
Queen & King lost easily once Wings powered up... plus they lack awakening or adhaki ...even just amazing haki.
King being lunarian is his whole hype which makes him powerful while Queen is a mad scientist. They don't deserve more than 1.1B if it is power wise , they do deserve 900M-1B overall tho for threat + power.
Marco is pathetic but he still fought many wars and also led WBP so he deserves inbetween 950M-1.1B bounty
Cracker bounty isn't even correctly done coz they don't know his real face + he deserves more than Smoothie who been useless ao Smoothie should have lower.