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Not a good enough reason when you have Roger himself stating he and Garp nearly killed eachother many times.
We don't know how these combats went. It may have more to do with Garp throwing giant iron balls on the Oro Jackson, instead of a fist-fight with Roger.

And I think Buggy implied that Whitebeard was the only adversary who was truly equal to Roger.

As for the panic, again incorrect because we saw in the flashback that they willingly went to war with the Roger Pirates and there was no panic either....



None of em look panicked to me...
Of course the Whitebeard Pirates aren't running away.

But we don't get to see how they reacted when they found out that Roger was on the island, and wanted to fight them.

And then putting Rocks so low?
I placed Rocks in the ? category. I have no idea how strong he was. I assumed he was strong enough to be at least somewhere in the A tier.

I think it's a fine idea to have pre and post-timeskip versions of certain characters like the Strawhats and Supernova, but additional sub-categories like forms and arc versions are just...pendantic to me. For example all that's really important is whether we're measuring their strength as they are now for characters like Strawhats and older charaters( Garp, Rayleigh, Sengoku, Whitebeard) or how they strong they were before the timeskip or flashback (for said older characters).
There are only a few cases which I bothered in listing the specific arcs. I think it's important to specify it for Luffy, for example.

I made this on html, it should not be very hard to edit it, if anyone is interested...

WB was in a near death state the whole battle. We saw already his reflexes were basically gone as at marineford. He took a full blown punch to the face and still pummeled Akainu to the ground again. Then went on to do same to BB and finally fell after tanking combo multiple point-blank attacks from the BBPs.
That's why I put old Whitebeard below his young self...

Kaido on the same tier with Prime Roger and WB is too much imo.
That's purely based on the "strongest creature" or "in a one-on-one fight, bet on Kaido" thing.

Perhaps the story will show otherwise (and won't take many chapters from now). But until then, Kaido gets the highest spot.

Shanks lower than the others tbh is very weird. Akainu stood down when he saw Shanks, even before anyone said anything. Shanks went on to WB's ship and clashed with WB with no issues. Stopped Kaido from reaching the war, blocked Akainu's punch easily, and forced literally everyone at the war to stand down..Not sure why you would have him lower than Akainu and on the same tier with Kizaru/Aokiji.
All of the Admirals clashed against Whitebeard, so it's consistent, right?

But I think Whitebeard was stronger than them. Akainu is the only one who actually pushed him to his limit, that's why he's higher.

When Shanks stopped Akainu, the later was already injuried. I wouldn't be surprised if Shanks could have have defeated Akainu by that point.

Also weird that you would have Oden on A+ when you put Shanks on A.
Oden is a tier below young Whitebeard, that's all.

Rayleigh a tier under kizaru when he was taking on Kizaru + Pacifista is also puzzling.
I explained this before. Rayleigh himself said he was too old to fight Kizaru, and was fainting.

The supernovas on the same tier with Luffy, Sabo, Jinbei, Cracker is also weird.
I always thought Kid, Law, Drake, Hawkins and Appo were crazy strong. I myself find weird how they are underestimated.

Urouge we do have some reference, since he defeated Snack.

Then you have the scabbards below them? Denjiro, Ashura, JACK??, Inu/Neko below these supernovas?
It's a bit hard to compare them, since we don't have much reference.

However, when Luffy started plummeting Kaido, Ashura was quite shocked.

And it did not appear to me that it was only because Luffy was not scared of Kaido, but because Ashura could also feel the power behind Luffy's punches in Gear 4.

And I'm assuming Jack and the others are equal to Ashura. So I put them all 1 tier below Luffy with Gear 4.

And Zoro so many tiers below the supernovas even after what he did to Hawkins?
Yes, Zoro is below Luffy without Gear 4.

Zoro only hit Hawkins with a slash, but Hawkins ability prevents him from getting hurt. How many times have we seen Logias being hit by weaker opponents?

Plus Hawkins proved to be an absolute genius, and outsmarted Law a few times.

Burgess, Vergo, Chinjao same tier? And Zoro so many tiers below the supernovas even after what he did to Hawkins?
Burgess performance against Sabo was pathetic. The Sweet Commanders or All-Stars would never loose like that. That's why Burgess is below them.

Vergo is someone I think is very underestimated. He did not just punished Sanji and Smoker, but Ceasar and Doflamingo said he could defeat Law. And I think their error was underestimating Law, not overestimating Vergo.

Yes he does. I forgot if Big Mom knew him, but Chinjao definitely did. Whitebeard also acknowledged Garp, and Garp is known as the hero of the Marines. Garp's fame is also apparently why he hasn't been killed or fired from the Marines as well.

Nah, it'd have either been the same or nowhere near bad as Roger and Whitebeard seemed to have friendly rivalry. Plus, Whitebeard did say "he's just an old man," as if trying to make Garp not look as intimidating.
Of course Garp is famous worldwide. It's just not like Roger or Whitbeard. Nobody is.

Of course, Garp being at least strong enough to be an Admiral, is never going to be fired from the Marines. The Tenryuubito understand that, even if he's not flattering them, they need his military mighty.
 

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Sengoku have said that Garp's reputation was the only reason that kept him in the Marines/kept him alive, not because of his strength. Roger and Whitebeard are pirates, I highly doubt any Marine will be as famous as outlaws even though those two outlaws respect Garp immensely. If strength is all they care about, then why wouldn't Sengoku just say they weren't willing to get rid of Garp because of his power, rather than his fame and image?
 

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We don't know how these combats went. It may have more to do with Garp throwing giant iron balls on the Oro Jackson, instead of a fist-fight with Roger.

And I think Buggy implied that Whitebeard was the only adversary who was truly equal to Roger.


Of course the Whitebeard Pirates aren't running away.

But we don't get to see how they reacted when they found out that Roger was on the island, and wanted to fight them.


I placed Rocks in the ? category. I have no idea how strong he was. I assumed he was strong enough to be at least somewhere in the A tier.


There are only a few cases which I bothered in listing the specific arcs. I think it's important to specify it for Luffy, for example.

I made this on html, it should not be very hard to edit it, if anyone is interested...


That's why I put old Whitebeard below his young self...


That's purely based on the "strongest creature" or "in a one-on-one fight, bet on Kaido" thing.

Perhaps the story will show otherwise (and won't take many chapters from now). But until then, Kaido gets the highest spot.


All of the Admirals clashed against Whitebeard, so it's consistent, right?

But I think Whitebeard was stronger than them. Akainu is the only one who actually pushed him to his limit, that's why he's higher.

When Shanks stopped Akainu, the later was already injuried. I wouldn't be surprised if Shanks could have have defeated Akainu by that point.


Oden is a tier below young Whitebeard, that's all.


I explained this before. Rayleigh himself said he was too old to fight Kizaru, and was fainting.


I always thought Kid, Law, Drake, Hawkins and Appo were crazy strong. I myself find weird how they are underestimated.

Urouge we do have some reference, since he defeated Snack.


It's a bit hard to compare them, since we don't have much reference.

However, when Luffy started plummeting Kaido, Ashura was quite shocked.

And it did not appear to me that it was only because Luffy was not scared of Kaido, but because Ashura could also feel the power behind Luffy's punches in Gear 4.

And I'm assuming Jack and the others are equal to Ashura. So I put them all 1 tier below Luffy with Gear 4.


Yes, Zoro is below Luffy without Gear 4.

Zoro only hit Hawkins with a slash, but Hawkins ability prevents him from getting hurt. How many times have we seen Logias being hit by weaker opponents?

Plus Hawkins proved to be an absolute genius, and outsmarted Law a few times.


Burgess performance against Sabo was pathetic. The Sweet Commanders or All-Stars would never loose like that. That's why Burgess is below them.

Vergo is someone I think is very underestimated. He did not just punished Sanji and Smoker, but Ceasar and Doflamingo said he could defeat Law. And I think their error was underestimating Law, not overestimating Vergo.


Of course Garp is famous worldwide. It's just not like Roger or Whitbeard. Nobody is.

Of course, Garp being at least strong enough to be an Admiral, is never going to be fired from the Marines. The Tenryuubito understand that, even if he's not flattering them, they need his military mighty.
Your going to believe buggy.... over Roger directly telling us that Garp nearly killed him several times?

Your clearly biased... that makes 0 sense
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Sengoku have said that Garp's reputation was the only reason that kept him in the Marines/kept him alive, not because of his strength. Roger and Whitebeard are pirates, I highly doubt any Marine will be as famous as outlaws even though those two outlaws respect Garp immensely. If strength is all they care about, then why wouldn't Sengoku just say they weren't willing to get rid of Garp because of his power, rather than his fame and image?
There's a clear bias going on.
 

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All of the Admirals clashed against Whitebeard, so it's consistent, right?

But I think Whitebeard was stronger than them. Akainu is the only one who actually pushed him to his limit, that's why he's higher.

When Shanks stopped Akainu, the later was already injuried. I wouldn't be surprised if Shanks could have have defeated Akainu by that point.
WB was also injured when he went against Akainu, so if these injuries matter as much, then why have Akainu higher than the other admirals? An argument could be made that Akainu just happened to be the one who was with WB there. If Squard could injure WB, any one can do it provided they are close enough to him and he has his guard down (which was the case with Akainu).


Oden is a tier below young Whitebeard, that's all.
Even if we go with that, if oldbeard is 1 tier belowe young WB and Shanks clashed with oldbeard with no issues, and then went on to stop Akainu who you place on same tier as old beard, then why is Shanks 2 tiers young WB/1 tier below Oldbeard? I haven't seen a single thing in the story that remotely suggests this 🤔


I always thought Kid, Law, Drake, Hawkins and Appo were crazy strong. I myself find weird how they are underestimated.

Urouge we do have some reference, since he defeated Snack.
They are strong yes, but not crazy strong. DD manhandled Law. Even Luffy had a hard time beating Cracker initially. I don't see any of the other supernovas being able to keep up with Gear 4 Luffy or DD. Zoro is also firmly within that supernova bracket. Being so far beneath those you listed (3 full tiers) is a lot imo. He is on the same tier with them and they're under or barely equal to the Scabbards like Ashura/Denjiro and Jinbei, Jack, etc (for now). At SA we had the supernovas commenting on how much of a beast Zoro was and even surprised he was not a captain himself.

It's a bit hard to compare them, since we don't have much reference.

However, when Luffy started plummeting Kaido, Ashura was quite shocked.

And it did not appear to me that it was only because Luffy was not scared of Kaido, but because Ashura could also feel the power behind Luffy's punches in Gear 4.

And I'm assuming Jack and the others are equal to Ashura. So I put them all 1 tier below Luffy with Gear 4.
Well G4 Luffy is a beast indeed, and it's for that exact reason that G4 Luffy isn't on the same level as the other supernovas. Ashura expression looked more like he was seeing a crazy person and not like he was intimidated by Luffy's power at all. He wasn't surprised at all. He did get surprised to see Luffy could use CoC though. If Cracker is on the same tier with G4, why the Jack and the Scabbards be lower?

I explained this before. Rayleigh himself said he was too old to fight Kizaru, and was fainting.
But he wasn't fainting at all, and yes he did say he was too old, but that's him simply referring to the fact that he is way past his prime and has been retired for quite some time. Even with that though, he was the one who drew blood from Kizaru. He was panting, which is to expected considering he was relaxing in a bar one minute and holding off an admiral. Kizaru himself commented on the fact that Rayleigh was stalemating him + Garp & Kizaru saying that the marines couldn't try to capture Rayleigh without making preparations. Both Kizaru and Rayleigh tried to negotiate their way out of a battle. Also consider that Rayleigh said he hadn't even held a sword in a while.


Burgess performance against Sabo was pathetic. The Sweet Commanders or All-Stars would never loose like that. That's why Burgess is below them.

Vergo is someone I think is very underestimated. He did not just punished Sanji and Smoker, but Ceasar and Doflamingo said he could defeat Law. And I think their error was underestimating Law, not overestimating Vergo.
Sabo also fought with an admiral and held his own..
 

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Shanks is above Akainu, I don't know why people keep thinking he isn't. Rayleigh is on par with the admirals. Just because Akainu and Aokiji's fight lasted for 10 days has nothing to do with how strong they are compared to others but rather how equally powerful they were and I'm surprised Aokiji held that long given that he was in a disadvantage due to his DF. I'll put Akainu above the admirals but not Yonko level.Maybe even Yonko BB can defeat Akainu now POST TS. Reason why Pre TS BB ran off was because he would eventually win but suffer greatly and not be able to achieve Yonko status quickly.
Drake is not above any All Stars. The only supernova who has shown any feats to fight an All Star is G4 Luffy, not even Kid has shown anything yet.
 

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Here is my updated tier list

I added some labels so the n00bs now can understand

I disagree with some aspects of your list but nothing differnet than what other's have already expressed. So i'll skip my comments, but i had to say it was a great idea to put Luffy's different power levels there......

I wish we'd seen more of ID prisoners that joined BB crew. Those pirates could be insanely strong but we dont know anyhing. Liek Vasco shot, all i can think of him beating anyone right now is Kaido in a drinking contest at best.... hopefully we see more soon.
 

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Save the image and upload to IMgur? oh no, I think they uploaded it to the MH album
 

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Thanks @M3J-kun



Of course this is just a quick one. I'll work on it over the course of this 2 week break
  • How do you justify placing other swordsmen over the strongest swordsman?
  • why is Doffy soo high
  • why is Law soo high
  • why is Queen placed soo low while Smoothie placed soo high?
  • Iva-chan already stated he was stronger than Kuma but is placed lower than him?
Hopefully you'll fix these mistakes in the course of the 2 weeks!
 

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I wish we'd seen more of ID prisoners that joined BB crew. Those pirates could be insanely strong but we dont know anyhing. Liek Vasco shot, all i can think of him beating anyone right now is Kaido in a drinking contest at best.... hopefully we see more soon.
It's hard to measure the strength of the Impel Down prisoners that joined Blackbeard.

I would expect them to be on a different level from the older members, but that doesn't appear to be the case based on this panel alone:



But it may come down to each individual. Laffitte could be the strongest of the older members, etc.

Still, since Blackbeard was the only one who could fight Ace, I assume all of the Blackbeard Pirates got much stronger after the timeskip, to call themselves Yonko commanders. Except Shiryu who was already a monster.
 

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I wish we'd seen more of ID prisoners that joined BB crew. Those pirates could be insanely strong but we dont know anyhing. Liek Vasco shot, all i can think of him beating anyone right now is Kaido in a drinking contest at best.... hopefully we see more soon.
The Vivre Card Databooks revealed a bit about each of them, but I think it said Vasco Shot in particular was dangerous.
 

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All in the title, as of right now, chapter 978. Who would you say is the 2nd most powerful Mugiwara... Jinbe or Zoro ?
 

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in b4: Sanji

But Zoro it is for me. But we will see how it is after Wano i guess.

Zoro got this entire arc for powerup though. Got a new legendary swordy which trainer him and got some little skirmishes too for experience. Jinbei on the other hand is a monster by himself with his karate and strength, but maybe he is too nice in fights.
 

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On the Marine side, people seems to forget VA Tsuru and VA Momousagi who was a candidate for the promotion to Admiral.
They're said to be the mightiest female marines, they should be pretty strong (YC at least)
 

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One on one in land with no water around zoro, one on one in a small island or in a boat jinbei.. and since they are a pirates who supposedly like 80% of their time are in a boat that mean jinbei is stronger..
 

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a little attempt... man too many faces who i dont even know or want to rank, also why was sanji only as woman there...?
 

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a little attempt... man too many faces who i dont even know or want to rank
Luffy too high
Mihaek too high
Shiki too low
Aokiji too low (he was equal to Akainu)
Zoro too High
Mallegan too high
Hancock too low


Just my take. Great list overall, most of what I bring up is debatable of course but I this Shiki is the one that glaringly stands out.
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@Shasha23 you are right about law, queen, and smoothie, I actually agree with you

Ivan is debatable and I won't be starting the Mihawk+Shanks debate so let's skip that.

Good suggestions for the most part. U should make one.
 

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Aokiji too low (he was equal to Akainu)
"Was" is exatly that point, also he kinda lost a limb so there is that,

Shiki didnt accomplish so much to be hones, that i would put him on the yonkou level, sure he was in the Xebec crew, but he got defeated by Garp + Sengoku he lost two legs, which has weakened him more. also most of his might seems to have come from the 50 pirate captains who followed him. Roger wasnt even scared of him if i remember correctly.
 

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"Was" is exatly that point, also he kinda lost a limb so there is that,

Shiki didnt accomplish so much to be hones, that i would put him on the yonkou level, sure he was in the Xebec crew, but he got defeated by Garp + Sengoku he lost two legs, which has weakened him more. also most of his might seems to have come from the 50 pirate captains who followed him. Roger wasnt even scared of him if i remember correctly.
I guess if thats how you see it then I won't argue it. Like I said, good list overall
 

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Looking forward to these lists being redone after Wano when Zoro defeats King without too much trouble. :feelsgoodman
Also, every list that has Shanks above Mihawk, idk what you expect from Shanks to pull off to be above Mihawk...
 

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One on one in land with no water around zoro, one on one in a small island or in a boat jinbei.. and since they are a pirates who supposedly like 80% of their time are in a boat that mean jinbei is stronger..
No one has joined the crew who has been stronger than Zoro and that hasn't changed even if they would fight where there is water, the only thing Jinbe has over Zoro is experience which puts Zoro's rank of authority as the2nd in command after the captain to question, if anything Zoro will need to step up his game in terms of leadership and i believe Jinbe joining will challenge him to become a better character.
 
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