Among all relevant characters we've seen, not one has had any aspiration to be WSS nor do they even care about the title. We are in Wano Kuni, a country full of strong swordsmen but not once have we heard of Mihawk. Why is there such a stark discrepancy between how much of the fanbase values WSS title and its relevancy in power scaling and the in verse perceptions of the title?
The title would be legitimized greatly if Zoro had an actual rival or a character in passing who aspires to be WSS or aspires to beat Mihawk but we have no such thing.
So this begs the question, does the fanbase value this title way too much when Oda himself hasn't even done anything to progress or build up any tension towards Zoro's goal. It's not hyperbole to assert that there is not development in Zoro's goal to becoming WSS. There is no tension, no tug, it all falls flat when you realize that over 400 chapters of the TS, this aspiration has not been hinted at once by any other character. No one cares about Mihawk and WSS so, why should we as fans place such emphasis on a title without any story points legitimizing it?
For example, if we get that Beckman is the World Greatest/Strongest Marksman, does that really do anything for power scaling? It would be cool info sure but, that changes nothing about the power scaling. At this point, learning that Beckman is the greatest Marksman would have as much weight as Mihawk being the Greatest Swordsman. They both would have similar levels of build up and development (Zero).
What do you mean we have never seen anyone aspire to become WSS.
We have seen a Dojo in East Blue and there are sworsdmen in that Dojo training, training to be as strong as they can be as a sworsdman. When you train to be as strong as you can as a swordsman, ultimate destination is to do what? Become Strongest Swordsman in the World
Now that's only one Dojo, how many Dojo's are there in the world? I'd say like 10s of 1000s if not more. So you have millions of people right there aspiring to become World's Strongest Swordsman.
We saw Shanks use swords as a kid and he hasn't used any other weapon nor does he have any other and we know Shanks is nothing more than a regular human. So he also trained as hard as he could to become as strong as he could? What is becoming as strong as you could as a swordsman? Becoming strongest swordsman in the World. He was almost on his way, had legendary grand line shaking duels with Mihawk until he lost an arm. Obviously you can't become strongest swordsman in the World with one arm and obviously Mihawk is stronger than Shanks.
What about country of Wano? Doesn't that country have 100s of 1000s of swordsman? Aren't they all training? Aren't they all training to become as strong as they could?
What about every other regular human who has honed their skills with the blade? People like Kaku, Brook, Cabiji, Momonga, Fujitora? Aren't they trying to become as strong as they could?
Do you know why no one else has used this
garbage, piss poor dog shit of an argument? As a grown ass man, you should be ashamed of yourself asking this stupid ass question. What you are saying is that every single swordsman in the World of One Piece is lazy as fuck, they they don't aspire to be as strong, as good as they can be.
And yes if Benn Beckman had title of Greatest Marksman in the World, it would be statement of power level. He would be greater than every other marksman in the World. Though Marksmanship seems very limited, like what happens if you are in ranged, Melee combat? If you have title of World's Strongest Marksman, which doesn't make a lot of sense, then that would make you stronger than every Marksman.
But World's Strongest Marksman title doesn't exist because it doesn't make sense as I described Marksmanship is a very limited fighting style. Swordsmanship in One Piece is a complete fighting style, you can destroy Islands with swordsmanship, bring Tsunami's with swordsmanship, cut the most durable characters with swordsmanship, be king of melee with swordsmanship, be king of ranged combat with sworsdmanship. There is virtually nothing you can't accomplish in One Piece, in a combat scenario that includes
-Fodder control
-Ranged Combat
-Mele combat
-Destruction
-Overcoming the most durable opponents
-Overcoming the largest opponents
-Cut elements
-Replicate natural disasters
you name it and hence the title of
Strongest Swordsman in the World works!
