I think Oda wanted to show off Whitebeard commander strength in MF, and it's not just a Mihawk matter. Marco, Jozu all looked better against admirals than yonko commanders are looking right now comparatively to top tiers, so either the Whitebeard pirates will turn out to be stronger than other yonko commanders or Oda may give an excuse to this
And i'd not be surprised if Oda went with the former direction with the parallel Oda is creating between Whitebeard and Roger.
But in the end, yes story-wise, it doesn't make sense, i agree with that. Infact i'm still confused why Oda went that direction to be honest. That's why i'm curious in how exactly Oda will involve that in the plot. Either it'd be a past occurence that happened during the timeskip, or he'd forget it altogether(doubtful), or it's yet to come
No WB pirates still have no hype lol
Oden made them successful and legendary
It makes sense , you people just rate Mihawk way abkve his league
You rate admirals equal to Yonko whici isnt true.
That's why you have hard time believing MF feats.
G3 luffy could fight an admiral
Zoro, law , sabo...Jack... any high tier or even top Vet can stall Admirals 1 vs 1
Time to wake up
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THE THING is
People thought fighting in a war meant "wb pirates are strongest crew"
Yet no way Oda hyped them... that crew disbanded a year after WB died
"MIHAWK was casual"
Sleeping WB, BM are more of a threat than Mihawk with Yoru