@desa:
He is saying that Champion should fight someone we know is strong to judge his level.
People believe that Shilliew is the second strongest and therefore is the one that should be compared to a yonkou's first subordinate. You can disagree with them but that argument won't work since for them Shilliew is the second strongest.
I'm also under the assumption that Shiliews the second strongest, but I was also under the impression that the first 3 subordinates were similar in terms of power
for example I think there is a hierarchy between the three admirals but I don't think there's a huge gigantic gap between those levels
I think Zoro's stronger than Sanji, but I also believe that sanji and Zoro will always be close enough in power that if they were to have an all out battle with each other, it would end similarly to akainu and aokiji, one is clearly stronger but to prove it, it took a shit load of time, exhausted both of them to the point where they had nothing left, and gave both serious injuries
I think if Marco and ace fought, or ace and jozu, or jozu and marco the fights would be similar, they'd exhaust themselves trying to defeat their opponent, they're very close in terms of power
so what I'm saying is, when I say he's 1st subordinate level of power, I don't mean no one else in the crew can challenge him, I think in this case even, the first subordinate isn't gonna be the most powerful because of zoro always fighting the second strongest who happens to be a swordsmen, but I'm assuming the top fighters of Blackbeard pirates are similar to the white beard pirates where they can all fight pretty well around the same level
i mean is it just me or does anyone else see Oda do this where he seems to have each captain have their own monster trio, They showed off Marco and jozu right at the very start of the war in double spreads right next to each other and then waited a long time to really show anyone else off (and they pretty much just showed Vista) now we have Doflamingo have Dimante, Pica, and Trebol as his three, and if Jinbei joins the strawhats we'll have zoro, sanji and jinbei as Luffy's top three power guys (all pretty close in power) so maybe it's stupid of me to assume that Black Beards top three guys will all be pretty much monsters more so than the rest, it just seems to be a pattern