Name a 5-man team that could take down Kaido's Top 5
DiscussionR1: Dead or Alive
R2: Alive Only
R3: EoS - but no Luffy/Teach
Rd 1:
It’s possible - but only thanks to some very creative scaling (which is fine because the challengers are majority featless).
Luffy wins any battle he fights. Prime Garp too. 2-0
IF we scale Sengoku to Garp then that’s another guaranteed victory 3-0
IF we scale Mihawk to Shanks then they tie. And if we edge him above Shanks due to his title he might extreme diff. 3-0-1 or 4-0
Kaido/BM are incredibly strong and low/mid-diff Oden. If we scale Dragon to them he could do it too. Likely the same for BB who should be below them. 5-0 (or 4-0-1)
This is all direct scaling - to say nothing of any tactical advantages Like - while I don’t think he belongs in these tiers of fighters - Laws fruit had could be a game changer that lets him fight up in a single fight and assist heavily in a battle royale. BM’s Soul fruit could help regenerate her stores while chipping away at an opponent - and in a battle royale she could even heal teammates. Even by herself, she could turn fallen opponents into weapons and keep getting stronger as she runs a gauntlet until reaching a level to compare to the stronger challengers
Rd 2:
No chance whatsoever. Though I’d love to believe BM survived her cheap loss - until further notice she and Kaido are dead. Metaphorically “Prime Garp” is “dead” as well - which takes out most of their force. Swapping them in for older counterparts/weaker characters is a death sentence here: G5 can’t carry that much
Rd 3:
This is worse because while we get Kaido/BM back - we trade them for Luffy and still lose the prime elders.
I should've been clearer - with Round 3 I meant:
All-Time, Dead or Alive, including EoS, just no Luffy/Teach
Ah I see, in that case Rd 3 has a bit of hope with a few wild cards. Getting rid of Luffy leaves room for some theoretical characters like the OG Joyboy/Imu I guess. There’s also Prime Rayleigh who I didn’t mention before, and maybe another Lunarian. The problem is none of them have any scaling in the series.
Shiki scaling is terrible, but I guess he should be able to do something. That’s why I didn’t include the Gorosei - because their showing on Egghead puts them below Yonko IMO. Most of their stats (speed, reflexes, strength, durability) besides fruit hax seem to fall between YC+ and Yonko; with their main schtick being immortality (kind of like King where higher tier fighters still can’t hurt him for a while).
I’d be curious to know if the ancient weapons could sway things here. What if Crybaby-hoshi solos the verse with an army of Sea monsters (as the world sinks further into her kingdom)?