User blog comment:Blackendedsoul/Gap/@comment-95.105.212.107-20130417211004/@comment-94.12.240.193-20130421010612

A point that really does need to be kept in mind when discussing Whitebeard is the fact that he was in his 70's, in da-to-day life he needed constant medical care, and judging from Marco and Crocodile's reaction to him being stabbed by Squarda, WB had already begun deteriating before he started fighting in Marineford. Secondly, even if Shanks were to be capable of defeating WB before he died, there is still no way that the Red-hair pirates, or even the Red-hair and the WB pirates minus Whitebeard himself, could have actually defeated the Navy. Victory was never WB's goal, he sounded the retreat of his crew and all his affiliated crews as soon as Ace was freed. The Navy had 100,000 top notch soldiers + the shichibukai and the admirals + VA's, a single Yonko could never have defeated them. All in all, I feel that DD's power gives him an incredible advantage over all non-logia opponents and I personally don't think there would be a huge gap in power between DD and a Yonko, although I do believe a Yonko crew would be both more vast and more powerful the DD's.