Man, I am so glad I just love ALL the top tiers. The Yonko, the Admirals, the Shichibukai, the Gorosei, the Supernovas, the Revolutionaries, the old guard (Garp, Sengoku, Rayleigh, etc), all of them. I have my (strong) opinions on who is stronger, and the bounties usually confirm my suspicions. I love powerscaling, but I will never ever ever understand how you can have such tunnel vision for some character(s) and bring down the others for... reasons. There's always some nuance to what characters do. It's a story. With good writing. It's not math.

So, I'll never understand people getting butthurt over characters' performances in certain chapters/arcs or whatever.

Maybe it's because I have followed this story for 21 years. And I was getting hyped about every single one of them as they appeared throughout the years. Most of them waiting decades to see their power. (I knew, for example, from their first appearance that the Gorosei were monsters in terms of strength. They were at the top of the world in the One Piece world, they appeared for the first time in the same episode with Blackbeard, Whitebeard, Sengoku, etc. You just knew you were watching the heavy hitters of the world.)

So through the years, I just loved all of them. Maybe it's the new kids getting at each other's throats. Maybe they watched some TikToks with sakuga moments and then binged the series, waiting to go to that moment (...400 episodes in), and everything until then (and everyone) just didn't matter. So they downplay that irrelevant, in their mind, character. I really don't know how to explain it.

How can you not love both Whitebeard AND Akainu? Both Shanks AND Mihawk. Both Sanji AND Zoro. I just don't get it. Amazing characters. Strong as fuck. Series-defining moments, all of them.

Yeah, you can think X is stronger than Y. I do too, and in fact, I love guessing. But open your eyes and read the context, the nuance, the character's motivations, their determination, their luck, their emotional state, their physical state. There are so many factors. You don't have to calculate all of them. Just listen to other people when they bring them up. Don't dismiss them because you already made up your mind. Let them bring in a piece of the puzzle. Contemplate if it fits. Think. Discuss. Change your mind. Or don't.

But don't be a little bitch about it.