Kyros is just one case and even then he was the sole strong guy in the entire country. Dressrosa was originally a supposedly peaceful nation but still, considering they were at the NW it does not set a good precedent.
Pell and Chaka were strong for the part of the GL they were in, so its not just one case
Its not the case at all that the majority of pirates would be useless. You are comparing pirates that at least have been sailing through the new world against military which normally just stays in a country. Sure, each crew has around 10 crewmembers who by all intents and purposes make up the main crew but that does not mean the rest of the people there are just normal folk. just look at shanks crew. Remember shank's delivery guy? Rockstar was a pirate with a 94 mil bounty before he joined shank's crew. Basically a guy with a bounty 6 mil below a supernova is a delivery boy in a yonko crew. So with each yonko you have the main crew which is made up by around 10 crewmembers whose strength is comparable to admirals and vice admirals and then you have the rest of the crew which is still made up of guys with significant bounties. And then even after that you have the allied crews of each yonko which is made up of pirates of varying strengths.
The marines have an unlimited number of pacifistas and it took the whole SH crew to beat just one and at the time they were stronger than any average pirate, those other people you speak of can easily be taken care of by pacifista, not to forget there are and again in other kingdoms there are people probably as strong as admirals given we already have Fujitora and Greenbull as prove of this
Remember the strawhats vs hody's crew? Each fishman by default is several times stronger than a regular human and even then the strawhats, who are not even remotely close to the strength of a yonko, had an easy time with them. Luffy took out 50000 people. The rest of the 50000 people were easily dealt with by the rest of the crew. Even nami, ussop and chopper were not phased by the numbers. According to oda shanks would have taken all 100000 fishmen with his haki to boot. Now, what would be the result of putting the sheer numbers you mention against the yonko? The yonko would take care of most of them through literally sheer willpower. Even against WB the WG only took its elite marines and even then a number of people were susceptible to luffy's haki.
Its not just the yonkou who have haki, and you also make it sound like random pirates are way stronger than random soldiers, when in truth it isn't
Just throwing numbers out there would accomplish nothing. Gather the billion people you mention and they would probably be handled easily by the yonko's fodder members. Even pre time skip luffy could rampage through the great war defeating regular marines and his strength was by all intents and purposes negligible. The war would be decided by who has the most quality warriors, not simply who has the most warriors. And in this regard the yonko have the marines beat. To begin with nation independent armies are not a thing, they weren't even present during the previous war.
Why do you think a random pirate fodder is stronger than a random soldier, we already have the WB pirates fodder to compare with and they were pretty much equal to them, not to forget those fodder are the same rank as the ones pre time-skip SH can take care of without even trying, marine fodder = pirate fodder they aren't stronger and marine fodder
So the situation would be more along the lines of this assuming the world government takes everything it has without leaving anything to protect the rest of the world:
Marines:
- Fleet commander
-3 admirals
- (15-20) Vice admirals
- Elite marines
-Militia
-pacifista
-7 shichibukai
You are not accounting everything, there is CP-9, CP-O, Kong, Shichibukai crew, etc, so it would be more like:
7 admiral class marines + Garp and Sengkogu (meaning 9)
20-30 VA(we already have over 20 known vice admirals)
Armies from 172 countries
Amazon Lily warriors
7 Shichibukai + crew
pacifista
All in all safe to say they are over a billion strong
That is pretty much what made up the WG's army at the great war. And within this you have to consider that by far the vast majority of the WGs power was concentrated within about 20 people. Basically the fleet commander, the 3 admirals, and the 15 or so vice admirals. Pacifista are strong but moderately strong people can one shot them (basically any Vice admiral and up). And then the shichibukai although they are too erratic to really be considered an asset. I mean, hancock was uncooperative, mihawk and doflamingo just did as they pleased, BB only showed up to do his thing....
It wasn't the WG that fought Whitebeard it was the marines, your confusing the 2, if you think it was the WG the that means the WG beat Whitebeard with less than a handful of their power
And now you have the 4 yonko:
- 4 yonko
- about 40 relevant crewmembers for each crew (made up of people with Vice admiral and admiral level).
-Allied crews (with each having a relatively strong captain and perhaps competent crewmembers). WB had 43 of this IIRC. If the yonko now have something similar we are talking about 160 crews.
- Their regular members (however many rockstars they have between the yonko crews and allies)
-Militia
4 yonko
40 -VA class and above fighters
allied pirates and their crews
all in all about 200 000 strong
The WG could gather the billion people you mention and they would still be severely outnumbered by the sheer number of strong people on the other side.
as I have said the WG has more stronger people, and in some of their countries there are people who would be above VA class and we already have been show 2 who were picked to be admirals, unless every single pirate were to join in then they would win but just with the yonkou alone there is just no way
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You are forgetting the allied crews of the yonko. That could be anywhere between 30-50 crews each if the WB situation is a good example. Why would the armies of the affiliated countries be a thing? They didn't even show up for the WB war. Even then, bringing in that many numbers of ordinary people would not really help the WG. The cipher pools as we saw them would not really add anything. Well, CP0 could but CP 1 through 9 have been specifically shown as weak. I guess they wouldn't hurt but they wouldn't add much either.
the WG didn't fight Whitebeard it was the marines, your confusing the 2 that's why you don't see how powerful the WG really is