User blog comment:Red HAired Shanks/Does Shichibukai deserve their status as one of the 3 Great Powers????/@comment-3048801-20101126034236

i feel like once you become a scicibukai you become "soft" in a way. while being a pirate yoyur always competing with others, trying to get stronger and trying to prove yourself to be the best out of the bunch. To me once you gain the status as scicibukai you no longer have anything to strive for, you lose your drive, ambition and competition so its basically like they hit a platau that cannot be surpassed because there is nothing left to do. Due to this i believe that the scicibukai are not to be considered as one of the 3 great powers simply due to the lack of improvement in thier skills due to thier immunity to the marines. The only reason i would have the slightest thought to include them in the 3 great powers is because of thier intimidation tactics.