This comment is gonna derail so hard LOL:
@Counters - Akainu only ever took 2 hits from WB, and both wounded him quite severely, so i don't think he scales beyond his current "1/3 WB" value for contributing to stopping his quake earlier. Also, Akainu and Aokiji both have obvious dura negating abilities if both are temperature related and they can control it to the point where they can vape/freeze flesh/bone respectively upon touch. All Akainu had to do to hurt WB was walk up and touch him with a magma fist, and he'll just melt right through his chest.
- Also, WB told everyone to run the second Ace was saved, not after he died.
@Vio - Kind of hard to debate off-panel fights especially since we see both of them at a distance towards the end of their fight, and WB is just swatting his attacks aside. They did not clash twice btw: Akainu uses his foot to stop a wide-sweep from WB (Which didn't even utilize his DF from what we see), then he throws a magma-punch which WB circumvents with a quake punch, and the next time we see, Akainu is on the offense and WB is like "Lol" and slaps his attack dozens of meters to the side then mocks the poor boy. It's safe to say Akainu was using mid-ranged attacks the entire time and just kept his distance. We never see them go melee until WB had a heart attack and was left open to attack.
@Xulrev - To be fair, none of the attacks would have directly affected his subordinates as long as they just stayed away from him, which they knew to do.
- The Tsunami: The alliance was not even at shore yet, and WB's crew was in close proximity to himself and thus would be protected by him (Pure speculation, but i doubt he'd just chuckle at his own "kids" getting crushed), and i'm sure Ace would not be submerged under water for any extensive period due to being high (Assuming the stand actually holds up, kek) and definitely could've taken the hit from the tsunami--the random officers and DF users would have been screwed though. Just an opinion, but he likely aimed to trim off all the fodder and most DF users so the battle would be easier. If Aokiji didn't intercept the attack, MANY marines would've been yeeted off the island, killed, or incap'd if they were a DF user.
- The Tilt: I have to reach on this so hard, tbh. It just seemed so random, as if just to display his power to the viewer. I mean, the crew and allies were aware of WB's ability, and it could've been used to simply throw the enemy off and lower morale, but really... wtf, it seemed pretty detrimental to his own forced. The attack was so unnecessary to take out John Giant.
- Scaffold Punch: I'm just hoping he was aiming for the supports and NOT Ace/Sengoku... Lol.
- Island Split: It prevented a large amount of the marines from chasing his underlings, and i'm certain if BB didn't show up, one of the Admirals would have to deal with him, lowering the pressure on the rest of the crew/alliance.
Personal Note: Whitebeard is contradicting himself. If he valued his children's lives, he would've gone SOLO no matter what he had to do to force his children to stay put. In order to save Ace, he sacrificed hundreds of his sons and still failed in the end. It was basically all for nothing. He should've gone in, brought in ONE non-DF user who had excellent Kenbunshoku, then sank the island and had the said Haki user go and swim for Ace, and leave the marines to drown.
PROBLEM SOLVED. The only one's who'd survive are any non-DF user, anyone who can fly, or anyone who would have aid if they are a DF user, so: Garp, Hancock (via Salome), Doffy (Via flight), Mihawk, and all Vice Admirals.
This is assuming Aokiji doesn't freeze the ocean and makes everyone fight on a giant block of ice.
Back on topic: Aokiji fought Akainu for 10 days, and they got eachother good, so idk why they wouldn't scale to eachother. They're both Haki users, so i'm sure DF attacks wouldn't be definitive in their encounter. All 3 Admirals blocked a quake from WB and weren't outright stomped by him in an actual fight, so... What's wrong with Aokiji scaling to Akainu and =or> 1/3 WB?
