None of this disproves what I'm saying. Buggy being so weak that he needs the Government to be misled to include causes the credibility of the Shichibukai as a rank to be lessened. Mihawk being the strongest swordsman in the One Piece world also puts a hamper on the rank due to how high in the extremes his power is on their scale. It's a broken rank.
Warlord is a generalization, of course they're broken down tiers within the group but as a whole the government dogs have capabilities and feats to be placed above officers ranked in the navy.
There not going to let any pirate be a Warlord otherwise we would see the likes of Brownbird inside the organization.
Buggy is just a misconception, a misunderstanding of being in that group.
They said buggy did xyz, making them to believe he is within that level.
So when being said about "warlord level," it is referred to the pre timeskip credited individuals.
Not false hype buggy that gained credit for yelling at Yonkou Shanks.
The only argument you can make is the strength of the impel level 6 crew members that follow is his orders.
That's the only thing he will be dignified for.
Same was Vice-Admirals. The fact that Garp was offered promotions to Admiral and declined and remained Vice-Admiral also puts a hamper in by causing a flux. There are no "Oh he's an exception", he's part of the rank. If you think a Vice-Admiral is below a Shichibukai, then you're saying Buggy>Garp, Buggy>Vergo, Buggy>Smoker. The fact that you have some Shichibukai who are weaker than some VAs, and vice-versa, shows the ranks flux in comparison with each other, and with others, as you can have some Shichibukai like Moriah weaker than a rookie like Luffy, but you have Kuma, Doflamingo, Mihawk and Hancock who are stronger than Luffy as he was at that time, maybe even now. You can't say "He's a VA, so he'll be weaker than so and so" because the people in the rank are on too vast distances from each other, causing big extremes. These particular ranks simply can't hold enough merit.
See you're not listening....
Yes they're exception of those rank, which Garp in specific doesn't abide by.
He turned down the promotions and ranks when ever he pleased, but does that mean he follows the commands like any other Vice Admiral?
Can all Vice admirals turn down promotions?
Can all Vice Admirals give commands to all Admirals?
Is Rogers only on Vice Admiral now?
Can all Vice admirals even become higher up in the navy while having his direct son being the most wanted man in the world?
The answer is simply "No."
Garp is the exceptions, otherwise the questions asked up there would get Garp killed or kicked out of the military.
What Vice admiral gives Admiral Kuzan orders in water 7?
Going back, to the warlords being above VA...
Yes, they simply are because there are feats and requirement for that (excluding Buggy for obvious reasons)
Even Moria himself can beat vice admirals too, he is definitely the weakest of the pre timeskip warlords but he's still above Vice admirals (except for garp).
Luffy went all out in that fight against moria, and 2nd gear+3rd is above most vice admirals out there.
As for towns and islands, not all towns and islands are the same size. Let's say a town has five houses, and Ace destroys them with one Hiken. What if he goes to another town that has ten houses and can't take them all out in one blow. The former, by your standards, suggests he is town level, and the latter doesn't. What you have there is a contradiction. Now let's say the former town is all experienced Haki users who maul Ace, but then he goes to the latter town and it's all fodder and he burns it down with no trouble. See how the smaller town can give more trouble than a bigger town, once again causing too much flux.
Well first off, Ace doesn't lose to all Haki users because there are some weak ones like Tashigi that would get one shot. Even if they are over a twenty of them.
When I say "island buster," it means in one attack they can destroy a whole island (durable inanimate object) in one blow.
There are people who are durable enough to stop an island busting attack, but the people are not the island nor are they the town.
That is why Shakky said Kidd only got a higher bounty for harming civilians, not busting towns. There is a difference and I thought even you would be able to decipher the two terms.
Let's say WB went to an island, let's say, the size of half of Bannaro, and sinks it with ease using one Quake or air tilt. Then you have Marineford, where it took WB several Quakes to partially destroy the main building, and he came to splitting the island in half at the most. Is he island level then?
We all know that his physical condition (age and injury) is what deter him for fulfilling his hype, and the sea stone walls were a big factor for the used of negate his devil fruit power.
Otherwise his title still stands as an earth buster, even Sengoku is aware of what his potentials are capable of doing.
It's unfortunate that Whitebeards as a pirate has sense, otherwise every pirate, marine, and himself included would of dead draining in the marineford war. Considering that more than half of them were devil fruit users who couldn't fly...
Then you have WB failing to sink Marineford, and Moriah splitting Thriller Bark in half with one punch. Moriah did in one punch what it took WB extreme anger and several hits to do. But I'm sure you won't say Moriah, even with using Asgard, is stronger than Whitebeard would you?
Read above...
Whitebeard is a world buster
