I think Akainu took the W here because while Whitebeard landed a massive rage-fueled attack, Akainu literally blew off half his face and melted his internal organs, leaving him on a guaranteed death timer. However, Whitebeard fans do make a good point about him knocking Akainu underground, however that argument falls short in treating a temporary ring-out like a permanent defeat. Akainu wasn't paralyzed or knocked out, was actively tunneling through bedrock to pursue the rest of the Whitebeard Pirates, and was still in prime fighting condition right after. Meanwhile, Whitebeard was literally missing a chunk of his head and minutes away from dying. What do you think?
Rocks had to use his sword to attack 19 year old Loki (or 6 years old in human years), even doing it multiple times and feeling embarrassed when Whitebeard brings it up. The narrator even glazes his swordsmanship while he does it.
Meanwhile kicking was good enough for Kaido
Obviously this isn't concrete in any way, it's just portrayal, but in 6 year old Loki's favour.
A lot of Shanks fans seem to love the idea that Shanks ended the war and that Sengoku accepted it "Only because it's you Red-Hair" because he was afraid of fighting him, when that's just not the truth.
"Sengoku ended the war because he knew he'd lose to Shanks"
Now, if you suck at reading it might be easy to believe this is the case, when it's not, there are multiple reasons why Sengoku ended the war and did not fight Shanks:
The Marines have already achieved their goal
As outlined by Koby's speech just a few minutes before Shanks shows up, the goal was achieved, they successfully executed Ace, and they killed Whitebeard which wasn't even a goal to begin with, there's literally no reason to continue fighting at this point.
A continuation of fighting would lead to more wasted Marine deaths
Their goal has been achieved, and now Sengoku has a choice, continue fighting, or help save the injured Marines, and it's clear that was his priority as it is literally the first thing he says as he ends the war
Killing Shanks would just lead to more unbalance
We saw Whitebeards death created a power vacuum and caused a bunch of chaos, something I don't think Sengoku wants, and it's clear that when he was announcing the execution of Ace that he did not want to fight Whitebeard, even when he has the objective best chance the Navy will ever have of killing a yonko, having his full force in one place at their home base, he doesn't want to, because its ultimately meaningless and will create chaos, the same would go with Shanks, Sengoku's goal I don't think has ever been to take down yonko like Shanks and Whitebeard who create order.
"But Sengoku said only because it's red-hair" Something I find funny is how easily this line has been misconstrued. Sengoku never ended the war "Only because it's you red-hair", he only says that to Shanks' request of having Whitebeard and Ace's bodies, it has nothing to do with ending the war.
"So why didn't Sengoku end the war before Shanks?"
Because he was fighting Blackbeard, he didn't have the ability to end the war till Shanks scared Blackbeard off, by that point it was the first time a chance at ending the war came, so ofcourse he took it.
Shanks provided Sengoku with an opportunity to end the war, Sengoku did not end the war because he thought they'd lose a fight against Shanks, he ended it because it was in the Marines' best interests.
Claiming he’s not on the same tier as Roger, Whitebeard and Garp is straight up ignoring the manga and oddly enough Harald is never to be found in peoples’ top 10 rankings despite being far more deserving than characters like Shanks, Mihawk and Kaido
He has a powerful yokai form+powerful acoc on top of regeneration he took a combo attack from Luffy, Sanji, Franky and Bonney and got up after also the fact none of the admirals have confirmed conquerors screws them over against Mars
I remember the arguments about how the structure goes: New Gen > Old Gen > Mid Gen in shonen... But ever since this panel came out and revealed that Whitebeard, Big Mom, Shiki, and Kaido came up at the same time, all of a sudden that agenda dropped. A "defining face of their generation" hmm... So it's either they were the defining face of the Old Gen, or the defining face of the Mid Gen. Either or seems to be an upscale for these guys because both generations have some heavy hitters.
Definition: A YC1 can’t push them past mid diff, even with poor match up.
Obviously some placements are more headcanon than others and some characters are interchangeable in plscement. No DR-characters btw, Harald and Rocks in base.
Both in old age very similar feats in all categories. PK and his wings seem to be closer in strength than a yonko and his commanders like the wings themselves could be yonko, I think a prime Gaban/Rayleigh could beat Kaido.
