Imo, marco's bounty is about 2b. He was the right hand of wb and ruled the seas "after him". Just that fact gives him more hype than katakuri, king and beckmann.
(Yeah beckmann has personal hype too, just saying that hypewise wb's first > shanks first)
So his bounty was given to him, when wb was alive.
Blackbeard defeated marco and snatched wb's territories. So blackbeard~ 2.2b and marco~ 2b is justified.
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My scaling of the Yonkou is Old and healthy Whitebeard > Kaido > Linlin > Shanks > Blackbeard, and the cardinal numbering of their bounties is my major reason for this.
That has nothing to do with the Marco argument though. Bounty isn't solely determined by combat ability, but combat ability is a major factor.
Imo right now it is primebeard > oldbeard > shanks > kaido > bm > bb.
The reason is, bm and kaido are at their peak. For at least a few years. So they stagnated. While the same does not apply to shanks.
Why do they (kaido and bm) have a bigger bounty than shanks?
Considering the duration of them being a yonko and their characters, kaido is a bigger threat than shanks, simply because he and his men are warmongers, while shanks is easygoing.
Add to that that shanks crew is individually stronger but numberwise inferior, kaido and bm have more people serving under then than shanks.
Yonko = organisation,
because of people under you, allies, network, spies, connections, size of your territories etc.
So right now, as an organisation, kaido,bm > shanks.
So their bounty is higher.
But not their power. Because shanks is imo the same as roger (and dragon the same as garp). So when luffy said he and his crew will surprass shanks and his crew, it meant that luffy will surprass roger.
Which he has to do, because the one who shall find the one piece, will not become roger 2.0 but the one who SURPRASSES roger, because he has to do something which roger could not do.
Which also should make sense, because shanks has been steadily hyped SINCE THE BEGINNING of op.
Well yeah, that is just my opinion.
And nope, I don't favor him or so. Just my thoughts based on the information we have and the flow of the story.
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I am sure, that roger + garp (and everyone who would be with them) could NOT OVERTHROW the tenryubitos. EVEN WITH ROX.
The same goes for the generation after them and their "successors", aka shanks, dragon and blackbeard.
And just like roger and garp, shanks and dragon know this.
That's why, they are betting on joyboy2.0 aka luffy.
The one who will be above them. Imo.