First of all, I responded to the comment that said "shp crewmates at YC level"
So we talk about crewmates here, not alliance..
Maybe franky & brook can handle oven & daifuku, but I can't see anyone who can handle perospero.
If you just mean the core crewmates alone, then yea they can't compete.
I can agree with that.
But that's because they are severely lacking in numbers.
But, if we talk about alliances, yeah they even can wreck navy, let alone just BM or Kaido pirates.
Bcs we know navy is stronger than any yonkou's crew.
Navy > wb > kaido = BM (we talk about overall strength here, not only depends on some of strong guy).
Shanks & BB's crew strength still unknown. But I don't think they surpass navy (fleet admiral (sengoku) & their legend (garp) didn't even need to join the battle but wb still got a big loss. But yeah, in this era most likely those 2 won't join the war again)
In another hand shp alliances is at different league. Put aside kid, killer & marco who wasn't became their official alliance yet. They still have law & 9 akazaya, it's like 9 peoples at 3rd-4th YC level.
And put aside hakuba who will just became problem & slaughter many of our friends if robin/bartho isn't around. They still have Bartho who can easily toying with vice admiral. Tons of minks with sulong & tons of samurai from legendary land. Tons of dwarfs who can silently kill an armies without them noticing it. Several giants (even BM trying hard to get that power for her crew). Don chinjao a legend with CoC (althouth it seems he won't participated in the war). Sai who is stronger than chinjao. Etc.
Shp alliances is at different league.
So, If we talk about shp alliances I think everyone know shp alliances can wreck every yonkou crew, even navy, but we talk about shp crewmates here
Hold on, let's not get too ahead of ourselves here.
If the fully navy really tried, they'd stomp SHP (with Grand Fleet) pretty easily.
(And, the Scabbards, Law, Kid, Marco, Minks etc are only "allies". They are their own faction. They aren't a part of the Grand Fleet and shouldn't be considered a part of the SHP.)
In Marineford, Garp and Sengoku didn't do anything at all. Old Garp should be relative to old WB, considering peak WB and peak Garp were relative. Sengoku should be around the same ballpark too, even if weaker.
Aokiji and Kizaru were only semi serious. Only Akainu actually fought fully serious and gave his 100% in that battle.
So, 2 out of the top 5 in Navy didn't fight. 2 fought, but wasn't bloodlusted. Only 1 actually fought at his max.
And this isn't even considering the Shichibukai here, amongst whom all were only semi serious as well. (c
They STILL defeated the WB pirates convincingly, which was easily the strongest Yonko crew when it was active.
To take on the full force of Navy, 3 Yonko crews need to make an alliance.
Right now, IMO:
Navy >> WB crew > SHP > Beast pirates >= BM pirates
That's just exactly what I said. Tobbi roppo just a joke. They can't even handle cp0.
It's like almost all of kaido armies was just a joke. Numbers is considered as 1 of their strongest power & threat, but brook & franky can easily 1 shoot them without even go all out. Tobbi roppo can't even handle cp0 when wb's commander in bad shape can beat cp0. Hawkins just a clown, he has 1 of the hax df ability, but he just like let everyone hit him & kill him many times instead of learnt how to fight & dodge properly. Apoo was strong, but still can't beat cp0, just same as tobbi roppo. Even queen, he is strong, but his personality make him lose easily, instead of fight properly & finish off his enemy he just like to play.
It's why I said in general power maybe beast pirates is the weakest among the yonkou.
Ehh, Queen is a clown. But aside from that, beast pirates were fine.
King is probably stronger than Katakuri, and would've won against Zoro if he played a bit smarter. Jack was fine as well, he lost to Sulong Cat, a much stronger opponent.
Two Tobiroppo were basically taken out by BM, and one defected. If they actually fought without these conditions, we would've felt them to be lot more threatening.
Beast Pirates are overall comparable to BM pirates. With slight edge to Beast Pirates. Kaido is slightly stronger than BM. King slightly stronger than Katakuri. Cracker slightly stronger than Jack. Tobiroppo and executives relative to each other. Beast pirates have better grunts due to gifters.
Hmmmm the term yonkou commander refers to usually the 3 top commanders in a yonkou crew in power and some times authority, it’s based on the 3 calamities of the beast pirates and 3 sweet commanders of the big mum pirates
There are broken into 3 usually
YC1 : Marco , Katakuri , King , some guys also grouped there are Rayleigh, Beckmann and depending on your view Oden when he was on WB ship . There’s a good deal of variance of their strength but they’re always the second stronger in the crew to the captain to authority and strength
YC2. : second in power and authority
Queen , Smoothie , Vista (?) , also very powerful. Scopper Gaban also fits into this designation
yC3 :Jack , Cracker , Jozu( probably stronger than the average YC3 and probably actually hovered around YC2 in strength even ) ,
now things in one piece are flexible , there can be folks in the crew who hover around that level of strength or even higher in the crew
High level Executives and YC4(?) : very strong and reknowned authority figures in the crew
Folks like Oven , Perospero , Daifuku , the Tobi Roppo , Snack , Ace , the rest of the WB commanders, BB titanic captains/commanders, Robin , franky , the stronger members of the Strawhat grand fleet ( cavendish , don sai etc )
Now some members here might Exceed the strength (Ace) and authority (Perospero) of this group depending
We also need to know it was done to emphasize the similarities between kaido and big mum , we should note that not every YC crew is the same
Yeah, the current "YC" is only referring to Kaido and BM crew structure. So, top 3.
Is it representative of other Yonko crews? Don't think so.
- WB pirates had 16 commanders, all equal in authority. But we all know here that the top 5 are the special: Marco, Ace, Jozu, Thatch, Vista. So they are probably the equivalent of "YC" in power level.
- BB pirates have 10 commanders.
- Red Hair pirates: we don't know what their power structure is. But if we're considering the narrative, then "YC" structure fits well for them as well. With Ben Beckman, the fat guy and Yassop
If we're looking at purely powerlevels, and consider King as the benchmark of YC1.
Then characters like Marco, Rayleigh and Oden (and likely Ben Beckman) won't fit in here. There isn't much of a parity between the Yonko crews. Oden and peak Rayleigh are (most likYonko tiers for example.
Isn't Ace straight up considered a "YC" ?
He was YC2, and groomed to be the heir apparent to Whitebeard.
We also need to know it was done to emphasize the similarities between kaido and big mum , we should note that not every YC crew is the same
Yep, basically this. 100%
Saw this edit after I wrote the entire thing lol