He can be the strongest but she still is on the same level. Sweet commander. 1st mate commander level is something you made up. I will stick to the titles Oda gave them. You haven't seen anything from Smoothie but by pure speculation you're already ranking her in a group as diverse from a schichibukai that got beaten pre-skip and one that got beaten post-skip.
Not even close. Even in some of the caption during the recent chapters talked about luffy facing the power of a billion bounty. A billion bounty threat is a lot more than those stuck in the 500-900 million range in a yonkous ship. We've seen luffy beat Cracker and we've seen luffy not even put a scratch on Dogtooth indicating the difference in strength between a first mate commander level compared to the rest. Smoothie being any where near Dogtooth is a speculation that you believe in and one that doesn't make sense when you add Cracker in the mix.
Warlords being beaten pre time skip doesn't mean anything, because we've seen lucci get overpowered at cp9 and now he's at the top of cipher pol 0 with the strongest.
The reason why I put here with the original warlord level is because Ace was offered a set as a warlord by the govt. due to his threat level and power, in which he was granted a seat at 2nd commander level at Whitebeards ship. Even though there's no rank between them besides the 1st mate, Shanks said that Ace was strong enough to fill that position anyways.
So that's the best way to gauge her strength atm.
So one had to commit suicide to have a good showing, I guess by good showing you mean no other way out and blowing himself up because this is not really a sustainable way of fighting for Pedro
I guess siting there with a gun to your head seconds away from dying is better to you? There's a difference between doing something and nothing at all, that's the point I'm trying to make.
And Jimbei knew Dogtooth's weakness and was able to take advantage of that once to block one attack. And wasn't able to do any more with that information and skill after that.
He did actually. Him and Pedro tried to slow him down and the other brothers from getting luffy.
Amazing showings, I think it's safe to conclude that against a yonkou crew while being outnumbered and still do damage, get the hostage, wreck the cake and treasure and get away is a good showing. But fighting wise the BM family owned everyone this arc.
Which like the Vinsmoke had little to nothing to show on that part. I already know your bias anything sanji related so my chances in receiving a non bias comment from a brick wall is better than the likes of you. If you were more open, you'd see the argument I'm making.