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Originally Posted by Blackbeard D. Kuma

I've taken all that into account. Doesn't really change much, because it was Akainu and Blackbeard that dealt the real fatal blows on Whitebeard (the heart attack he suffered was also problematic). And like I said before, Akainu proceeded to steam roll everyone shortly afterwards. Whitebeard would have had to dish out a lot more than he did to make sure Akainu would really stay down. The guy is a tank.

Saying you have taken them account doesn't just negate them. Those are insane wounds to have while fighting top-tier folks. The fact that he took out both Akainu and Blackweird with those wounds still is an amazing achievement. As you mentioned, he fought with half his face gone and still won. If he had been healthier, obviously nothing stood in his way to deal the finishing blow to both of them.

What happened here is that Whitebeard didn't quite live up to people's expectations. He may have been the strongest man in the world, but that doesn't mean he was so far above everyone else (and the war proved that). It's still debated to this day if he was in fact the strongest right before his death, because his performance at Marineford wasn't exactly the greatest. You may be an advocate of him being the strongest pre-skip, but one thing that's certain is that he wouldn't stomp another top-tier fighter because that wouldn't make any sense.

Speculating about people being disappointed in Whitebeard's performance doesn't actually further you claim, I for one wasn't actually expecting him to get as far as he did at the beginning of the war. Personally I was thinking they would have him die in the middle and have some other big figure, Shanks, Rayleigh, or Dragon finish of the second end. To me, Whitebeard showed exactly why he was the "still" strongest in the world during the war.