[Discussion] Rank the Shichibukai

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...what has been shown to prove mihawk is yonko level!?!? Yes a shichibukai who literally has done nothing but spare zoro and stand around during the war of the best....I'll believe the mihawk hype when I see it...

Teach however can nullify df and destroy the world with Edward newgates skill...the only person in op two posses two df ability
 

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...what has been shown to prove mihawk is yonko level!?!? Yes a shichibukai who literally has done nothing but spare zoro and stand around during the war of the best....I'll believe the mihawk hype when I see it...

Teach however can nullify df and destroy the world with Edward newgates skill...the only person in op two posses two df ability
We talking in this thread is "Yami" Teach, no?
 

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...what has been shown to prove mihawk is yonko level!?!? Yes a shichibukai who literally has done nothing but spare zoro and stand around during the war of the best....I'll believe the mihawk hype when I see it...

Teach however can nullify df and destroy the world with Edward newgates skill...the only person in op two posses two df ability
Mihawk is the strongest swordsman in the world and Shanks is a swordsman. That puts Mihawk above Shanks, and therefore on the level of a Yonko.

The thread is asking about when Teach was a Shichibukai. Teach didn't have the Gura Gura no Mi when he was a Warlord, just the Yami Yami no Mi.
 
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That's incorrect...Teach was a shichibukai during that time...he only was a shichi to gain access too impel down and strengthen his crew...he renounced his title at the end of the battle(after her takes white beards df)...secondly Mihawk only sought out shanks as a swordsman rival...do you honestly think shanks..currently the strongest person in op only has skill with a sword??And even if that was the case, they were friends..mihawk has 0% chance to survive the wrath of the entire red hair pirate crew run by yonko shanks
 

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That's incorrect...Teach was a shichibukai during that time...he only was a shichi to gain access too impel down and strengthen his crew...he renounced his title at the end of the battle(after her takes white beards df)...secondly Mihawk only sought out shanks as a swordsman rival...do you honestly think shanks..currently the strongest person in op only has skill with a sword??And even if that was the case, they were friends..mihawk has 0% chance to survive the wrath of the entire red hair pirate crew run by yonko shanks
Nope. Teach resigned as Shichibukai before he got the Gura Gura no Mi.

Shanks is not the strongest character currently in One Piece, Kaido is. Shanks might use other abilities than just swordsmanship, but he is still a swordsman. Just like Kaku used martial arts and his DF, and was still a swordsman.
If all it takes to be yonko lvl is to best shanks once...then the sea king that took his arm is also yonko level
Except Mihawk still currently holds the title of WSM, meaning he continues to be stronger than Shanks, not just that he bested him once. If Shanks was currently stronger, he would hold the title.
 

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Nope. Teach resigned as Shichibukai before he got the Gura Gura no Mi.

I could have sworn the events of impel down escape, and the war of the best took place on the same day. Or at Least the final parts of the escape did...otherwise how would teach have gotten into impel down so easy
He got to Marineford and resigned as Shichibukai...
 
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You are correct riker, I was wrong with my timing on teach's resignation, that being said I still think teach deserve the top spot. Marshall D. Teach has done whatever he wants to whomever, was yonko potential level pre gura gura, and until it's actually proven mihawk is 1/2 as great as he's supposed to be he can stay in the 3rd spot
 

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...what has been shown to prove mihawk is yonko level!?!? Yes a shichibukai who literally has done nothing but spare zoro and stand around during the war of the best....I'll believe the mihawk hype when I see it...

Teach however can nullify df and destroy the world with Edward newgates skill...the only person in op two posses two df ability
This made me laugh because its true but just from hype alone I put him above Doflamingo.
 

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...what has been shown to prove mihawk is yonko level!?!? Yes a shichibukai who literally has done nothing but spare zoro and stand around during the war of the best....I'll believe the mihawk hype when I see it...

Teach however can nullify df and destroy the world with Edward newgates skill...the only person in op two posses two df ability
Him being the strongest swordsman is proof of that. Isn't this the same as big mom? We haven't seen her do anything firsthand but we know she is a top tier from her status in the world alone. Pretty much the same goes for Shanks.
 
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@litzsabr your right except shanks and big mom are YONKO confirmed...they have a power ranking named after their position of power and rule the new world..mihawk is the best swordsman..what does that mean? Out of how many swords people...zoro is probably the worlds second best swordsman until he beats mihawk...that title means nothing until it's shown, it's like me saying sanji is the worlds best kick boxer, for all we know this is true, but it doesn't automatically make him better than or equal too yonkos
 
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Yonko is a title that has merit, it means one of 4 pirates that control the new world with power intelligence and a fleet to back it up,they are feared as the strongest.

We don't really know what the strongest swordsman title means..we don't kn ow how many swordsman there are in op. Could be 50 could be 500. Most of the strongest characters In op don't consider themselves swordsman. I think maybe there's only been 15 shown...maybe? And besides mihawk being the strongest is it safe to assume zoro is number two overall?

If sanji is the greatest kick boxer in op does that automatically make him yonko level? Besides sanji I only recall zeff being a kick boxer.and sanji surpassed him long ago
 

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1.) Dracule "Hawk-Eyes" Mihawk - I have to give the number one spot of the Shichibukai to one of my favorite characters in the series, because yeah we have seen this guy in "semi" action against Zoro, and Luffy (manga), but several others that I am too tired to remember the names of and held his own with extreme ease. Another reason I place him at the top his that his rival used to be Shanks (a current Yonko) but immediately was bored with him after he had lost his arm saving Luffy.

2.) "Heavenly Yaksha" Donquixote Doflamingo - Despite how much I detest this character. I cannot deny the fact of just how much of a beast this guy is, due to the most recent arc, having awakened his DF and pushing not just Luffy into using a new Gear (that had secretly had since during the TS), but pushing Law to his limits as well with relative ease.

3.) "The Surgeon of Death" Trafalgar D. Water Law - Once again another of my favorite characters in the series. This guys DF is absolutely insane, anything within his "Room" quite literally becomes his little *****! I believe the reason he had lost the fight with Doflamingo wasn't because he was weaker than Mingo, but because he had let that fight get far too personal and overestimated his ability and underestimated just how strong Mingo's ability and influence truly was/is.

4.) Marshall D. Teach "Blackbeard" - Despite not really knowing just how truly powerful this guy is he has quite easily made a name for himself by having had captured Ace, acquired the Gura-Gura Fruit and having concerned Shanks to the point where he had to confront the late Edward Newgate "Whitebeard" about not pursuing the hunt of Blackbeard, alone gives this guy a top spot within the Shichibukai. But alas this man is no longer one of them.

5.) "Snake Princess" Boa Hancock - Being from Amazon Lily, and in love with Luffy we haven't seen too much of her combat capabilities due to, quite a few male characters falling to the effects of her "Love-Love" fruit save for a few character (Luffy & Mihawk for prime examples). So far that we know of she is able to stand toe-to-toe with ease with Marine Captains and if I remember right some Admirals.

6.) "Tyrant" Bartholomew Kuma - The man that single handily split the Straw Hats apart for 2 years, had Zoro suffer an extreme amount of pain in return for Luffy's life, and the wielder of the "Paw-Paw" Fruit. This guy was hellaciously intimidating when we had first bore witness too him and the end of the Thriller Bark arc, and shocked and what he did on the Archipelago, to praising him for protecting the "Thousand Sunny" while the Straw Hats were split up. Sadly now all we have to remember this big brute are his many clones called the Pacifista.

7.) "Knight of the Sea" Jinbe - We have seen him in action a few times since we first met him at Impel Down, he is without a down a badass for a fishman. But sadly I just can't really see him holding a candle to any of the higher up Shichibukai. Albeit in the anime they did have him fight Mihawk for a brief period but for about 90% of the fight he was getting his arse whooped.

8.) Gekko Moriah - Yet another "Former" Shichibukai on this list, this man when we first met him I disliked him, he was just far too annoying for my liking for an antagonist, and quite literally became nothing more than cannon fodder during the war at Marine HQ.

9.) Sir Crocodile - And once again we have another "Former" Shichibukai, when we were first introduced to this guy I thought he was going to be a long standing villain, but after the events of Alabasta, you don't hear anything of this guy again until Impel Down and he literally joins with the man who defeated him in order to escape. And even goes as far to attempt to help save Luffy from Mihawk.

10.) Buggy the Star Clown - This guy until he is shown in the NW will remain at the bottom of the totem poll for me despite being one of the newest Shichibukai, a member of the Roger Pirates, and ally of Shanks. All he has been to the series is comedic relief during high stress events, even so much so that Luffy used him as a substitute to avoid Mihawk, and get blown up by his own noes when he tried to use it on the World's Greatest Swordsman.
 
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