Not at all, some idiots use that to argue Doffy is YC1 tier which I have always hated. I do consider Vista above Doffy but he’s an exceptional YC3, the world’s greatest pirate’s oldest and most experienced commander, more like a YC1 in strength, much like Yasopp, he probably fought Scopper Gaban back in the day.
Are you talking about Vista? Cuz Yasopp didn't recruit and meet Yasopp till after Roger was dead.
Anyway do you consider streusen or cracker to be yc3, because Cracker literally mass produces g2/g3 luffy leveled biscuit soldiers and has stronger buso than Doflamingo.
Katakuri > Cracker or Streusen > The other > Perospero > Smoothie or Compote > The other > Snack
Overall I'd say Jozu could probably beat Katakuri, but that Cracker/Streusen are borderline Katakuri leveled. Cracker lost to pre future sight Luffy, but Luffy had 1) Cracker's weakness in the form of water via nami, his apetitte to eat the biscuit soldiers so that cracker had to create new ones (ie stamina drain), instead of just putting them back together, 2) An army of homies, 3) Won via a trick move that did more damage than a king kong gun (not only did it go through multiple biscuit soldiers and shields that need g4 kong guns to destroy, he went flying across the entire island into the city), that wouldn't work on a rematch cuz it was a trick that Cracker wouldn't fall for again, so it's not really a power scale feat.
Honestly Katakuri is borderline equal with Cracker, albeit in different ways, Cracker's biscuit soldier phalanx was advanced on luffy spamming kong guns in a barrage.
Jack has a bounty of 1m + has good feats + if Joker (doflamingo) is a title for an unofficial yonkou top commander given the theme of the beast pirates theme, doflamingo would probably be the number 4, meaning king, queen, and jack are stronger than him.
I'm sorry but even Ben Beckman looked like shit against Kizaru, much worse than Jozu did against Aokiji or Marco did against Kizaru or Akainu. Yasopp is likely going to be killed by Van Augur or Lafitte. Ben Beckman seems like the weakest top commander (though he's the smartest based on databooks hyping up his intelligence, so he's kind of sengoku'y probably)
Marco > Jozu > Thatch > Vista > Ace is the power scale really. Thatch being killed essentially by a backstabbing while already having eaten the yami yami no mi, meaning he felt increased pain/damage, and then died of his injuries (or continued stabbings before he could keep going), with the rain/storm making the backstabbing easier for blackbeard stealth wise. (or heck, blackbeard maybe even got him drunk or something and got him to lower his guard)
I think you might be sleeping on Whitey Bay, Squard (he was in charge of the allied crews of whitebeard before his betrayal), and The Decalvan brothers (took over after squard betrayal, albeit they seem to be a recent addition to the allies cuz thatch fought them with ace, unless that was training)
Who knows who fought who, Marco was too young to fight Rayleigh or Gaban. It's possible that maybe rayleigh and gaban didn't get 1 v 1 fights, or didn't get proper opponents but the battles always relied on whitebeard vs roger cuz they were by far the strongest. Maybe Thatch fought Rayleigh or Gaban, do we have an official age for Thatch?