User blog comment:Kraykan/Strongest of the three admirals/@comment-3242083-20110429161933

Without further input we just have to assume they are all equal in power, since no one can guess how one devil fruit fares against another (who would have thought that magma can even affect fire? Real life logic does not apply in one piece).

As for the Whitebeard example, all 3 encountered his haki:

Aokiji got impaled, but was still unscathed

Kizaru evaded several attacks as well, unharmed

Akainu is the only one who took a good beating, but to be fair: He had to engage Whitebeard in his most extreme moment. I believe that haki is increased by strong feelings, thus he had to take Whitebeards "super-empowered-haki", if you know what I mean.

As for the individual powers:

Kizaru: The ability to shoot lasers isn't that impressive, but the insane speed makes up for it. How do you battle someone who moves at lightning speed?

Akainu: Mass destruction, but "thats it". No unique extra features. Sure, he can create tunnels for traveling - but Miss Merry Christmas can do that too...

Aokiji: Lacks potent (ranged) combat abilities, but has a lot of unique features at his disposal. He is one of the 2 characters (the other being Crocodile) who has the ability to end a battle by simply touching his opponent. Ice Time is probably the most dangerous attack seen so far, the only reason that the affected characters are not dead is either due to Aokiji's mercy or laziness (Luffy, Robin, Jozu).

But the greatest feature of the Hie Hie no MI isn't even all of the above. It is the (so far) only fruit that has one less weakness: water.

So, by that logic alone (one less weak spot) is Aokiji the "strongest" admiral. Still, this is just pragmatic observation, I still believe they are all equally powerful - and work best side by side.