he never said that blackbeard was too strong for him,not in any translation i've read at least.
well he said he had enough power to take down ace and since he was with whitebeard no one was able to read him or something like that, i read that in the german volume i have @ home.
not too strong for him but for a second commander
maybe that was more my interpretation
moria fought on par (or so someone in the manga says) with kaidou,the "strongest creature in the world" right now..but moria doesn't seems such a powerhouse nowadays..same thing with shanks vs mihawk..they duelled tons of time in the past,but right now who can be considered stronger is a mistery.
sure about that on par part with moria? i always hear people say that but i never read it myself.
happened more than 12 years ago,even before shanks lost an arm to the sea monster out of foosha..the same creature luffy one-shotted 10 years later (yeah,it was not a straight fight,but it is just to put things into the right perspective..nowadays he would have just made it faint with haoshoku.)
the development speed of a fighter in onepiece is extremely fast…it took less than a year (more like 6 months at best)to go from the luffy of fusha to the luffy of marineford..think of how people can improve in a decade,and how the ranks can change.
well yeah, that part about the development speed is true, but shanks wouldnt have warned the old man, if he had been a weakling when their fight happend.
my point was that a yonko warned another yonko that teach might be too much for his second commander (if i remember correctly oda said the commanders all play in the same league, and i personaly would say that the commanders are people who dont only rely on their df powers) and an ex-shichibukai warned a supernova who beat 2 other shichibukai that teach was dangerous since he joined whitebeard.
that lacks any sense.
why?
he also told ace that his power attracts other df-powers , but when he touched them with kurozo, ace und ruffy both became vulnerable, so their DF-power were negated.
why couldnt it be the same with his pain