[Theory] Doflamingo can beat mihawk.

[Yellow Spark]

I think that dof can beat mihawk and maybe an admiral too...

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First... Dof uses powerful strings that can control any user close to him except logia(not sure) and also can slice things. He has CoC and CoA. He knows skywalk. For mihawk it will be end if dof went close to him as he can control him easily...
If mihawk can slice hard things then dof can also cut many things.
Remember mihawk used his most powerful attack to attack moby **** during war which was easily stopped by jozu... And dof easily beat jozu using only one finger...(not actually defeated but controlled him like a puppet against crocodile).. Also in current arc you can see that dof is not a fool. He is quite intelligent to set a trap against SH and Law.
Jozu fought aokiji and was on par with him. He was defeated because he was distracted by death of ace. Even aokiji said that he got benefit from that distraction.
Jozu was equal or slightly less than an admiral. But mihawk couldn't kill luffy, couldn't beat 13th div commander vista. Now some will say that mihawk fought on par with shanks. But its not known that that actually was a real fight or was it just stone, paper, scissor fight.

Edit: i edited this, because some are saying that mihawk didnt show his full power. You mean he went against whitebeard without using his full power. And strongest swordsman doesnt make you stronger than the worlds most dangerous man. If you think mihawk>dof then prove...

 

[FireBird Marco]

Garp can beat 3 Admirals!

 

[Yellow Spark]

Garp can beat 3 Admirals!

+ fleet admiral

 

[Simple Math]

Mihawk could'nt kill Luffy because if he killed Luffy, the manga would be over.

I don't really care who's stronger, but the logic you used doesn't work in a vs matchup.

 

[KyuubiUzumaki]

Hell man, Doflamingo is so freaking OP its scary lol xD. Nah, I'm not sure about mihawk man, that guys pretty badass in his own way so I reckon we need to know more about his power first.

 

[ziggyZ]

So Zoro's strongest opponent is weaker than the guy whose gonna be defeated now. Trueeeeeew.

And mind providing some proof that they fought via scissors paper rock. That'd be sweeeet.



EDIT: since I'm not on my computer right now, you'll have to wait for me to absolutely destroy your "theory".

 

[Dark king rayleigh]

Its is not a>b>c plus luffy was running awat for mihawk

 

[YellowFang]

Fact is Shanks rivaled Mihawk in swordsmanship only...

There's hell no way... That only a swordmaster can be equal to a man who can go toe to toe with likes of Dark King and WB...


And I still think Mihawk hasn't been fully revealed yet... so it's jumping to conclusions to say Dofy > Mihawk but currently Dofy definitely holds an edge...

 

[November]

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[akimofnevis]

Dof ran from Kuzan and is afraid of Kaido, what makes him bad ass,nothing as far as I'm concern. I feel like Zoro can defeat Dof.

 

[Punk Hazard]

Shit logic.

Mihawk didn't use his Strongest Slash, but it "a slash from the Strongest Sword".

Secondly, we don't know the extent of Joker's strings. Whether or not they can control any and all people is simply unknown.

And we don't know Mihawk's full strength, especially after timeskip. We can't compare them at this point.

 

[Yellow Spark]

November: even law cutted a whole mountain... So you mean law>mihawk
akimofnevis: what would you do if someone stole your 1 billion$ and is running. Would you chase him or fight with someone who is trying to fight you.

 

[Yellow Spark]

So Zoro's strongest opponent is weaker than the guy whose gonna be defeated now. Trueeeeeew.

And mind providing some proof that they fought via scissors paper rock. That'd be sweeeet.



EDIT: since I'm not on my computer right now, you'll have to wait for me to absolutely destroy your "theory".

i m giving this theory on my phone... And how can you say that dof is going to b defeated. Acc to laws plan they are planning to take out a YONKOU not dof and maybe law knows that dof will surely cause a lot of damage to kaido that would make it easy to defeat kaidou. And its not necessory that Mihawk is zoro's strongest oppenent. Acc to me, zoro will fight one of BB crew's at the end.

 

[Aertes]

1) You forget that Mihawk trained Zoro for 2 years,so he can only became stronger after the timeskip,even if it's a little difference.
2) The only reason Mihawk fought against Whitebeard was because he wanted to fight with some of the strongest men there and see his and their power level.It wasn't a fight to death,with his life on the stake.You can't be sure he used his full power,or all of his techniques in that fights.From his whole behavior on that arc it's easier to conclude that he was doing it for fun and he didn't use his full abilities.
3) We still don't know how exactly DonF. technique works...What if the strings can be cut?And from what we've seen DonF. needs to be relatively close to the opponent to use his devil fruit powers.Mihawk can use slices that reach far away, he doesn't even need to get really close to him.
4) DonFlamingo is going down on this arc.All evidence show that Luffy and Co. will take him out.He really pissed off Luffy with his plan with the Mera Mera fruit,Luffy is going to want to fight him and most likely will win.Mihawk is Zoro rival,he needs to surpass him to achieve his goal and I don't think this is going to happen any time soon.DonF. will be out of the game soon,so no.

 

[shri3kbat]

I agree that Doflamingo could beat Mihawk but I give Mihawk the edge if they were to fight.
There's just more feats for Mihawk and implications.
Mihawk has fought through the world and nobody has beaten him in a swordfight.
He frequently dueled Shanks when the latter had both his arms.
He can easily slice steel and easily handled Vista, a Whitebeard commander on par with Jozu/Ace
He's the final obstacle of Zoro and Zoro's not even that far from Luffy in strength
while Doflamingo will be defeated in the final part of Dressrosa arc (Means Mihawk has more hype. Hype is one of the strongest indicators of a character's strength in a story, generally)

What Doflamingo has over Mihawk is better ranged attacks, a different fighting style which could give him advantages and possibly stronger haki
It's not easy to compare Doflamingo to anyone really, not yet at least. He has a fighting style which is very different which means you might fight worse against him than
more ordinary opponents. He's quite smart too.l

 

[Yellow Spark]

I agree that Doflamingo could beat Mihawk but I give Mihawk the edge if they were to fight.
There's just more feats for Mihawk and implications.
Mihawk has fought through the world and nobody has beaten him in a swordfight.
He frequently dueled Shanks when the latter had both his arms.
He can easily slice steel and easily handled Vista, a Whitebeard commander on par with Jozu/Ace
He's the final obstacle of Zoro and Zoro's not even that far from Luffy in strength
while Doflamingo will be defeated in the final part of Dressrosa arc (Means Mihawk has more hype. Hype is one of the strongest indicators of a character's strength in a story, generally)

What Doflamingo has over Mihawk is better ranged attacks, a different fighting style which could give him advantages and possibly stronger haki
It's not easy to compare Doflamingo to anyone really, not yet at least. He has a fighting style which is very different which means you might fight worse against him than
more ordinary opponents. He's quite smart too.l

nice thinking. But i dont think dof will be defeated in this arc. This arc is whole about beating a yonkou. Laws plan is to beat a yonkou and dof is just a main char in that plan... I stated in my comment earlier than yours.

 

[ziggyZ]

i m giving this theory on my phone... And how can you say that dof is going to b defeated. Acc to laws plan they are planning to take out a YONKOU not dof and maybe law knows that dof will surely cause a lot of damage to kaido that would make it easy to defeat kaidou. And its not necessory that Mihawk is zoro's strongest oppenent. Acc to me, zoro will fight one of BB crew's at the end.

He is the WSS. That itself is a Top-TIER feat.
He was also Shanks' rival.


He wasn't even paying attention to Vista(who was actually serious) while fighting him because he was concentrating on Luffy and his 'special power'. So since he was looking at Luffy and not Vista, it's safe to assume he was defending himself with knowledge of Vista's strikes (CoO or due tohis "Hawk-eyes").
As for him not cutting diamond, he can do so with CoA (it's obvious he has so because he wouldn't even be a Warlord with just swordsmanship) and how can he do so with CoA? Whatever you say/claim, Jozu's diamond power's are solely provided by a DF. And Haki nullifies DF power. So ultimately, Haki>DF and hence why Mihawk can cut diamond. Now why didn't he cut Jozu? That's because Haki can not be equipped to attacks that are not from one's body except for weapons, or anything generated from one's own body (like Kizaru's laser beams, Marco's flames or any other energy/non-solid attacks based on Devil Friuts).

And if Shanks is an Emperor and probably the current WSM or strongest Emperor (Akainu and BB(the same person who was confident enough to "sink" MF) didn't want to fight him). The same guy who with ONE arm effortlessly blocked a swing from WB. And Shanks equaled WB with a sword (the very thing Mihawk is unrivaled at), meaning Mihawk could also do it. As for Shanks' CoA being >Mihawks, well that may not be true since Shanks has CotSK and CoO, and Mihawk can only have CoA and unbelievable reflexes accompanied by his "Hawk-eyes". Meaning, Mihawks CoA (maybe) >Shanks, but due to Shanks having other attributes/strengths, it doesn't matter since it cancels each other out.


Also, the Marines don't care if he attends the meeting's or even if he attended the War. They didn't even care that he left when Shanks came (he didn't want to fight him because he doesn't fight handicapped people OR that since they were equal when Shanks had both arms, he believes he is now >Shanks). Which means that they understand his power, which means he is the strongest Warlord.

Lastly. If someone says; "Shanks in an Emperor and Mihawk is just a Warlord. So Shanks>Mihawk." That's not true. And why? Because a Emperor becomes one when he/she has a strong crew, and have obtained islands. And we have yet to see Mihawk with a crew (and there's a 99% that he doesn't have a crew since he travels alone and lives in a secluded castle) and obtaining islands. Moreover is the fact that he may be happy with just being the WSS and due to that, he doesn't want to be PK and he likes the fact that Marines don't bother him. Since he is a laidback character.




EDIT: Why wouldn't he be defeated this arc? This is Kaido's saga yes. But this Donquixote Doflamigo's arc. And if he is defeated now, it'll be a great way for Kaido to recognize the alliance since he may think that they're just small fry. But if they defeat a Top-TIER Warlord than Kaido will be impressed and actually give a **** when he hears about them.
As for Zoro's strongest opponent. Well since I was in a rush, I didn't explain myself. I meant to say "one of Zoro's strongest opponents" meaning he won't be his EoS opponent since that'll most likely by the Ghandi looking guy or Kizaru.

 

[shri3kbat]

nice thinking. But i dont think dof will be defeated in this arc. This arc is whole about beating a yonkou. Laws plan is to beat a yonkou and dof is just a main char in that plan... I stated in my comment earlier than yours.

Thanks. But beating Kaido is further ahead, at the moment it's the arc of Doflamingo. I don't see how this arc is about beating a yonko? Kaido hasn't even been introduced yet. The SH are not messing
with Kaido on the first hand, they're messing with Doflamingo. It's his factory on his island. Kaido will be pissed but he will come later.

 

[Fujitora]

The Mihawk that hyped WB+Commanders alongside the admirals? The Mihawk who is Zoro's benchmark? The Mihawk who casually swung his sword and cut half mountain sized glaciers? The Mihawk who used unnamed attacks during the war? Nop sorry can't see it.

 

[Jellal Fernandes]

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U_U Mingo has nothing on Mihawk.