We don't need to know more than we already know. Connect the dots and you'll realise he's not just barely weaker than them.
So u know everything about Garp's strength to say that he is not barely weaker than him.?
Except that Garp wouldn't be in the 90s with Roger and WB. If that was the case, losing less strength than old WB would put him above him and it didn't.
U shouldn't Ignore the possibility just bcoz it is against ur argument,We already had an example to prove that it is possibe (Mihawk & Shanks as SM"S) just think about it, if Mihawk got a stab then he'll automatically lose his title of WSM.
Just think how funny it is to say something like that
In that case such title didn't exist because two strongest people were equally strong as it's been stated.
How can u be so sure about this without enough Info.?
It is stated that WB can match him though it is never stated that there is no strongest man at that time
As a pirate, Roger accomplished more than anyone else, e.g conquering the GL. Therefore, WB is compared to him rather than the other way. But he wasn't stronger because it's said he had an equal.
That doesn't automatically make him a wall b4 all pirates ,Strength =/= fame
Shanks is not as strong as WB and still he accomplished everything that WB did
He wins in numbers, but his crew wasn't stronger than Rogers else he'd be the PK.
As we both already know having strongest crew does not make u a PK other wise WB would be the PK of this ara.
& U know that Team Roger Survived the battle against Shiki thanks to strom ,here Rogers team might do more damage but victory would be Shiki's
The time it we saw WB until the war was few months and nothing in the manga implies WB lost enough strength to not be the strongest. When a gigantic sword stabs one, anyone will be weakened. I mean, why else would Oda bother doing that to WB in the first place? Having Sengoku of all people say that WB was the strongest is pretty much a fact. Oda wasn't giving WB a false hype there. So unlike the Shanks and Mihawk case, Garp wouldn't barely lose to WB.
Garp got the same kind of Hype as well ,Iam not saying that WB's hype is fake my point is that Garp's hype is close to WB but still below him.
We don't know that but manga made it clear.
WB the strongest man alive with all types of Haki (It would be foolish to think otherwise IMO) failed to avoid attack from Squard ,hardly keeping up with Admirals, this is all not only coz of Squard's attack ,WB is already sick thats y he failed to avoid Suards attack though Sengoku don't know about WB's sickness
Once again changing the his title on a whim(coz of a stab) is same as saying that the topper of the class is is not top coz he scored less marks in a regular test..
my question is, if roger is 99 and garp is 90, how did they manage to equal and nearly kill EACH OTHER countless times....?
THEY WERE TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN, ROGER THE PIRATE AND GARP THE MARINE.
i dont know what is so hard about that lol, really.
Here ur not getting Hijey's point.
Look at Smoker and Luffy
Smoker > Luffy at Longtown
Smoker > Luffy at MF
means that Somker fought Luffy and cornered him 2 times
Now Look at current Luffy he is stronger than Smoker Now (Assuming that Luffy >/= Law)
Both Luffy as well as Smoker improved themselves
but Luffy's improvement >> Smoker's so Luffy got stronger than Smoker
Now by the END of the series Luffy'll be PK means that he is at his peak and Smoker will at his peak as well but still he is weaker than Luffy.
and people will still say that Smoker cornered PK Luffy more than once as he did it to a young Luffy
Hope this helps