@Monkey:
Wow you really think that if Hancock is a Shichibukai, it's only because of her beauty ? oO. As Sengoku said, this woman is strong, and it's not just because she's oh so pretty.
I didn't say anything about her being a Shichibukai only because she's pretty. I'm saying that her abilities would be pointless against Luffy (which they showed.), I highly doubt her hand to hand is as strong as his. Her tactics in fights we've seen her use are seduction and petrification which seems to only work if you have a perverse heart or however they worded it. If they seem to understand how her ability works they know how to prevent being turned to stone. If she has some serious fighting strength out outside of kicking stone enemies, which in the OP universe doesn't seem that difficult, and launching stone arrows, I don't recall it.
In an rpg sense I consider her a mage type. Good in long to mid attacks. Rarely actually touches the opponent. But would probably be slaughtered if the enemy is immune to her attacks and got up close.
But yeah that's all I meant by that, that I personally didn't think she would be considered top tier of the Shichibukai because of the type of fighter she is when specifically going against Luffy. Hell maybe even Zoro would be immune to her if he was in bandana mode. Sanji would be KOed before she did anything. For that matter Robin and Chopper could probably giver her a decent challenge. Her abilities work well on the masses that have the potential to be swayed by her appearance it seemed. She's dangerous to the general public and so are the other Shichibukai, I just felt that I've said above that she wouldn't quite be the strongest out of them. Although we haven't really seen Don Flamingo in action so it's hard to really gauge it.
But ehh…not trying to start a hypothetical fight chat. Was just my opinion on where I think she stands.