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, 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.
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.
First of underlings bounties aren't statement of their strength since WG can't scale them properly
Even so, Oda still knows how to differenciate between those who are skilled and those who are just dangerous or have a bounty coz they are X or did some silly X feat.
Yonko, SNs Captains. And etc... Can be used as PL statements
Yonko Commanders bounties can be used against Luffy when thy haven't surpassed YC...thats over since WCI, if Marco was superior than Base Luffy pré fs. Marco wouldn't lose low low diff to Pre Yonko Teach.
I'm not even gonna be surprised if his bounty was 800-900 M then now 1 B after MF war.
Calamities are crazy bastards, they have higher bounties than SCs, WB commanders and BBP yet weaker SCs.
Pre MF & post MF :
Marco 850 - 950 M >>> 1 - 1.2 B currently
Jozu 750 M >>> 850 - 920 M
Vista 720 M >>> 820 - 850 M
I think Yonko Commanders in general have a bounty between 500 million and 1.5 billion. In Big Moms crew Katakuri was after her the second strongest with over 1 billion. Queen has 1.32 billion and I would assume that King also ranges somewhere between 1.32 billion and 1.5 billion.
If we assume that Zoro is supposed to beat King, that would be already plenty difficult since he didn't even go all-out after the TS and didn't progress much in my opinion. So having him fight such a high bounty is already questionable and everything beyond the bounty of his own captain looks unrealistic to me.
So even Marco doesn't reach the 1.5 billion in my opinion. I would assume it's somewhere around Queens bounty.
If queen a YC2 can have 1.3 bil bounty, marco can easily have bounty larger than 1.5 billion but not because of his strength, its whitebeard strength, status and hype
Marco is one of the most underrated commanders, i mean he led the fifth strongest pirate crew for some time and was the ultimate reason why Teach joined the ranks of the emperors. The Whitebeard pirates contributed a lot but Marco was the the linchpin leading them and the one whom the five elders distinguished alongside Kaido, Big Mom and Shanks.
But how threatening Marco really is from the world government's perspective? I don't think a reward more than 900,000,000B - 1,200,000,000B would be issued for his head. His individual strength is certainly up there but he doesn't have any forbidden knowledge, didn't kill civilians for food, didn't blackmail the government and certainly didn't partake in any dark criminal activities like the Beasts pirates and Big Mom pirates do with the underworld brokers. Whitebeard seemed less aggressive and more peaceful as long as one doesn't try to provoke him, so it's just normal for his personality to reflect on his subordinates' bounties.
The moment Shanks said " soon,"
The moment Oda labelled Luffy as 5th Emperor, Yonko candidate....that alone made Luffy to be more famous and stronger than every pirate except Yonko.
In Wano, nobody is a bigger threat than Luffy except Rocks duo.
Now Marco cant have over 1.5 B coz it would not make sense for Teach to only have 2.2 after beating Marco easily and all those crazy stuff he did before becoming Yonko.
You can't tell me beating Ace, killing WB, freeing Prisoners and having them as crewmates, eating 2 dfs and GAINING WB territories is only worth 500 - 700 M
Marco alone can't be a bigger accomplishment.
Like for luffy, he beats Cracker and Kata.
beating Katakuri gave Luffy already 500 M increase... But the other 500 M is for other factors from DR (fleets and Sabo ) and WCI (assassination plot..) combined
Oda has to balance the 1 B increase for Luffy which is made up of his Combat Ws and other stuff.
Same way Oda will probably balance out Teach 2.2 bounty which is made up of his combat feats and other factors.
1 B for beating Marco and Ace
Other 1B for killing WB, eating dfs, gaining territories and the Impel down incident.
If Marco is worth 1.5B+ then Teach bounty doesn't make sense when you look at the stuff he did excluding Marco and Ace, merits 1.5 B already
Teach's bounty is the indicator that tells us where Marco sits bounty wise. Definitely below 1.5 B .
you point literally make 0 sense.
Luffy got 1.5B and queen just YC2 and got 1.3B lol.
kings hidden bounty higher than luffy, also marco might be. if marco cant defeat king then he might h ave bigger bounty thats why oda still keep that hidden
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