User blog comment:AYET/The worth of the Shichibukai to the Marines 2/@comment-3425840-20140129084303

I have to disagree on this one:

Well in my humble opinion, the marines are about as strong as any Yonko, if not more. And the Shichibukai did not effectively boost their power much in war of the best.

See there were seven of the Shichibukai (tow rogue) and one former Shichibukai present during the war.

Now let's see what they each did:

Mihawk - sent a slash at WB, chased Luffy around, beat some small fry, toyed with Buggy, beat Daz Bones, clashed with Crocodile and left after Shanks came... nothing of significant importance in my opinion.

Doflamingo - Took part in beating Oars Junior, toyed around and trolled here and there with Jozu and Crocodile, made some remarks and AFTER the war attempted to kill Moriah... aside from stopping Oars Junior, nothing important either.

Hancock - Beat more marines and Pacifista than pirates, gave Luffy the key to Ace's sea stone cuffs, stopped Smoker from taking Luffy out and in the end made the marines stop chasing Luffy... she actually acted against the marines quite significantly (although covertly).

Kuma - Beat some small fry and scuffled with Ivankov... nothing that important in my opinion, the other Pacifista did way more than him.

Moriah - Took part in beating Oars Junior, got into Luffy's way once but was beaten by Jinbe. Aside from that fought Curiel briefly with no result and beat some small fry. Oh and got nearly killed by Doflamingo after the war... nothing significant except the Oars Junior part.

Teach - Killed a very weakened Whitebeard and fought with Garp and Sengoku, causing much collateral damage. He was the one who basically dragged the old marine power duo into the battle, I mean until he showed up, the only part Garp did was making a ruse of facing Luffy and hitting Marco once. As for Sengoku, he only attacked Luffy until fighting Teach. So Blackbeard acted as a double edged sword against both pirates and marines.

Jinbe - Fought and seriously at that matter (unlike the ones on the marines' side) for Whitebeard. Beat Moriah, saved Luffy several times. Took out lots of small time marines.

Crocodile - Fought mostly small time marines, but clashed with Mihawk and Doflamingo, also stopped Akainu from killing Luffy. Attacked the WB pirates as well but to a lesser extent.

So essentially Jinbe, Crocodile and Hancock acted more against the marines than for them. Blackbeard was a double edged sword, harming both parties, and Mihawk, Doflamingo and Moriah only superficially engaged themselves in battle doing nothing really significant - except for the Oars Junior matter.

Now how does that makes them overly important for boosting the marines' ranks?

Also please note, that Crocodile, Jinbe and Ivankov - all Shichibukai level people were not in the original force that Whitebeard gathered. Nor was Luffy who was near Shichibukai level himself. Same goes for Buggy, Daz Bones and the Impeldown junkies, though weaker they fought against the marines but were not in the Yonko's crew or allied forces. Furthermore, until Blackbeard showed up, neither Garp nor Sengoku took active part in battle and the Whitebeards were losing already, even though the Impeldown gang was fighting by their side way more seriously than any of the Shichibukai at the marines' side.

So it implies that marines were in fact stronger than the Yonko. Also the entire Whitebeard crew and all their allies gathered for the war, but not all the marines in the world was there (yes most but not all).

In that regard I would say that if the total fighting power of the marines at Marineford was 10, then that of a Yonko with its respective allies would be 8-9 while without would be 6-7.

Where as a single Shichibukai without crew would be 0.5-1.5 and with crew would be 1-2.5.

Cumulatively the Shichibukai should be about 9 themselves (with crew) and the Yonko would be 30+ (with allies) and 20+ without. While the total marine forces would be probably 12.

This is pre time skip as the post time skip levels are not yet revealed well enough.