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Old 2009-09-09, 20:11   Link #167
Blackbeard D. Kuma
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Originally Posted by Big Daddy View Post
Didn't garp tie roger a lot as well?
All we know is that Garp cornered and fought Roger to the death many times. That doesn't mean they were equals; and if he was on Roger's level, we would have been told so by now. Whitebeard is the only person mentioned to have stalemated Roger.

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Originally Posted by Big Daddy View Post
I still have a problem believing that Dragon/Shanks/Sengoku aren't close/equal/above him in strength, but that is just wishful thinking most likely.
Well, even if they are weaker, the difference can't be by much.

Dragon is definitely going to be in the top tier. That just goes without saying, really. He is the world's most wanted man, which means he most likely has the highest bounty in the One Piece universe. He is the leader of the revolutionaries who are in direct contention with the World Government. He is the father of our protagonist Monkey D. Luffy. All of these things make him one extremely formidable adversary.

Shanks is one of the four emperors. We know that the four emperors are the four strongest/greatest and most influential pirates residing in the New World, so that fact serves as some kind of indication that they're all relatively around the same level. Whitebeard just edges them out by a little for the reasons I already mentioned.

Then we have Sengoku who is the fleet admiral of the marines. Whitebeard commented that he is one of the few people that truly knew the seas back during Roger's era. Getting respect and reverence from Whitebeard certainly merits Sengoku as being truly extraordinary.
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