User blog comment:AYET/The worth of the Shichibukai to the Marines/@comment-3425840-20130530013138/@comment-6920514-20130530141542

@AYET I agree completely. If they were ready to be admirals at the time of the war they already would have that's why I was heavily factoring in whatever might have happened during the timeskip

@Soul That's a great point that I admittedly overlooked. Like you said a devil could still change that or perhaps some new weaponry in the form of cybornetic alterations like Franky's upgrades but definitely past the point of just reaching their physical prime.