Speculations Will Xebec have a higher or lower bounty than Whitebeard?
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I don’t think the time period really matters. Oda uses bounties to represent a character’s overall threat level and standing, not to mirror any real life economy with inflation and shit taken into account. People forget that a bounty is more of a meta indicator, a narrative device. Whether a character lived a hundred years ago or a hundred years from now doesn’t change that. These bounties just serve a narrative purpose.
Could Xebec have accomplished more than Roger though? Probably yeah, I think they’re supposed to be close to each other either way.
Could Xebec have accomplished more than Roger though? Probably yeah, I think they’re supposed to be close to each other either way.
Oda cares about years and inflation
We see that some warlords did not do any feats but suddenly received an increase in their bounty. This shows that inflation has affected their bounty and increased it.
For example, Kaido did not have a bounty of 4.6 billion from 20 years ago until now, but now he has it.
When Shanks was 26 years old and was fighting legendary battles and even attacked CP and stole the most dangerous fruit in the world, he barely got 1 billion bounty, while now Robin has the same bounty, while he is not comparable to Shanks in any way.
And......
We see that some warlords did not do any feats but suddenly received an increase in their bounty. This shows that inflation has affected their bounty and increased it.
For example, Kaido did not have a bounty of 4.6 billion from 20 years ago until now, but now he has it.
When Shanks was 26 years old and was fighting legendary battles and even attacked CP and stole the most dangerous fruit in the world, he barely got 1 billion bounty, while now Robin has the same bounty, while he is not comparable to Shanks in any way.
And......
It’s been stated that no pirate has the values of WB and Roger but this is the same organization that erases history and we know Rocks was such an individual. So I think he probably did have a higher bounty but was covered up, maybe it was a value close to 6 or just straight up 6. There’s just no way you have a crew with that many monsters and openly attacked celestials like the revolutionary army and you don’t at least have that number, inflation be damned.
The bounty system only started to feel inconsistent after Wano, since commanders no longer pose the same level of threat moving forward.
For major villains though, the bounty progression has remained steady and logical. I guess Oda created a new baseline or scale for non-top-tiers, it’s to give returning characters more hype; this is still a meta indicator or justification more than any in-world economy coming into play. The top-tier bounty ecosystem will remain logical, and will follow the established world building. Very few characters will even break the 2.5 billion mark by the end of the series, with the upper ceiling sitting somewhere around 5 billion or so.
For major villains though, the bounty progression has remained steady and logical. I guess Oda created a new baseline or scale for non-top-tiers, it’s to give returning characters more hype; this is still a meta indicator or justification more than any in-world economy coming into play. The top-tier bounty ecosystem will remain logical, and will follow the established world building. Very few characters will even break the 2.5 billion mark by the end of the series, with the upper ceiling sitting somewhere around 5 billion or so.
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