PART TWO*: Usopp, the weakest, yet very underrated Straw Hat.

*This is actually the only part since the mods instantly deleted my honest Go D. Usopp scaling...
This is a more serious post than the previous part: the actual honest Usopp scaling. In fact he is actually extremely underrated and his scaling his misinterpreted.
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Ulti's scaling:

Firstly, we need to scale Ulti to properly scale Usopp.
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Ulti in Base can attack Luffy and clash evenly with Luffy, while he coats himself in CoA. Remember, this is post Udon Luffy. He has ACoO and ACoA already and he is stronger than Katakuri, a YC1.
Chapter 983
Ulti wins the clash by sending Luffy away... this puts her AP (and her dura with haki) above Base Luffy who's on-guard using CoA to defend himself.
Chapter 983
Luffy slams her and she receives no damage.
Chapter 983
Her physical strength is greater than Luffy's and he feels the need to use Gear 4th to face her.
Disclaimer: I am not scaling Ulti to Luffy, she's just crazy strong and Luffy wouldn't beat her with ease without G4.
Chapter 983
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She then gets hit by a suprise-attack by Yamato and she gets up in a matter of seconds (end of chapter 983 -> start of chapter 984) with minimal damage. She is completely fine in chapter 986.
Chapter 984
Ulti is able to clash with Yamato, while she is in base and Yamato doesn't have the sea stone on her. This Yamato can clash with Hybrid Kaido and not get overpowered.
Chapter 987
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I'd like to mention that Ulti can trash-talk anyone including Kaido in chapter 978 and other Tobi Roppo are shocked (they're weak compared to her) and again Kaido in chapter 979 as well as King in chapter 990.
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Based on all of this, Ulti is easily the strongest Tobi Roppo. She has better feats than Jack, the only thing making her lower is portrayal and narrative. Ulti scales at the top of Tobi Roppo or the bottom of YC3.
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Offense: AP / Hax

Usopp with Skull Blast-Grass can hurt Page One, a very durable Tobi Roppo who can tank a hit from Gear 3rd and leave with no damage.
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He can catch people with this Pop Green, Devil, which has meltinng properties.
Chapter 995
Usopp has another way to hurt Page One! Flower Fireworks. While you could argue the other were shallow, this one clearly draws blood out of Page One's neck / chin.
Chapter 1011
Exploding Pine Cones is a big attack since Komachiyo, O-Tama's komainu, is small compared to it. Literally one of these bombs alone is already his size. It also damages Page One, although it stays shallow.
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I want to mention something that people should keep in mind to understand all these feats.
All the Tobi Roppo have Ancient Zoans, therefore they are way more durable than the average Tobi Roppo level character and they are more durable than some Commander level character. Hence why Usopp's AP is actually decent.
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Usopp also has abilities allowing him to slow down his opponents. He can slow down Page One & Ulti with his Bamboo Javelin.
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He can also momentarily stop Ulti with Sargasso from moving allowing Nami to perform a critical attack.
Chapter 1016
Basically, Usopp's Offense scales below the average Tobi Roppo, but not far below that level.
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Speed: Travel Speed / Combat Speed

Usopp can run really fast, even from Ulti & Page One.
Chapter 991
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Usopp's reaction speed is good enough to perceive Ulti who's sneaking from behind.
Chapter 1016
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He can tag Ulti by shooting a Pop Green at her the same way she did right before. At least his main attacks (sniper) are fast.
Chapter 1016
Also this:

He can catch people with this Pop Green, Devil, which has meltinng properties.

This counts in his speed, since he could even catch on-guard Ulti.
Chapter 995
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The fact that Usopp can tag and hit Ulti & Page One with his attacks means his speed is good. While most of the time, he attacks them up-close or by suprise, there's still some attacks that land when his opponents are on-guard. Considering Usopp is never staigth up blitzed**, we can expect his speed to be around Tobi Roppo level, likely at the lower end though.
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Durability / Endurance:

Usopp mentions that he had already tanked at least one Ulti Mortar. He then tanks another one (at least the second one) and stays conscious. Based on the previously established Ulti scaling, Usopp's durability and endurance are crazily high.
Chapter 995
Usopp can tank Ulti's headbutt this far into the fight and still stay conscious while he had already tanked multiple hits before. We know he stays conscious because he lands his next attack two pages later (see the previous section for the panel).
Chapter 1016
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Usopp's durability and endurance feats are great, he should be scaled at Tobi Roppo Tier in this category. This is really good considering Usopp is not a physical fighter. I'll mention it again, but the durability of Tobi Roppo come from their fruit, which is something not everybody has, hence why Usopp can be scaled here.
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Stamina:

Usopp, despite having already fought Ulti & Page One and fought many of Kaido's minions for hours causing great fatigue and exhaustion. In spite of that, he is still able to fight opponents who gave Izo trouble. Remember that Izo had recovered from his fight against Kaido dozens of chapter prior to that.
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Versatility:

Usopp is actually a quite versatile fighter since he has both long and short range attacks, and his techniques vary in any given situation. This is a list of his abilities:

• Various Pop Greens
• Impact Dial for offense & defense
• Several other Dials
• Kabuto combined with excellent sniping skills and Observation Haki

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Conclusion:

Before concluding I would like to mention that the tier mentionned here are as large as the YC3, YC2, etc... tiers.
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Usopp can fight people who gave trouble to Izo, a 510 million berry guy who can hurt Kaido and beat a masked CP0 agent. For reference, Izo easily scales above Drake who got mid diffed by the same agents Izo fought. This basically puts Izo at the top of Tobi Roppo bare minimum and he could possibly be bottom YC2, I personally think that puts him at the bottom of YC3, relative to Jack if we don't wank Drake. This puts Usopp at most two tiers below Tobi Roppo.
Usopp himself has a 500 million berry bounty, making him as strong as Dressrosa Luffy in the eyes of the World Government. He is undoubtly very strong, this should put Usopp in Tobi Roppo Tier (portrayal).
Most importantly, while Usopp cannot beat Ulti and Page One, he can be decently troublesome to them and they are solidly Tobi Roppo Tier. This puts him a tier below them.
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We can conclude that Usopp is at least in the middle of the tier below Tobi Roppo Tier at most at the top of that tier. Whatever you call this tier, be it yonko executive or yonko officer Usopp is up there.
Finally, Usopp loses to any Tobi Roppo (Black Maria, Sasaki, Page One...), BMP Monster (Oven, Daifuku, Compote..., and I'll add Tamago) and other SHP (Nami, Chopper, Brook...). Nonetheless, he beats any lower Scabbard (Kanjuro, Kin, Kiku, Raizo), Mingo lieutenant (Pica, Vergo, Trebol...) and Grand Fleet Captain (Hakuba, Barto, Sai..., this includes Old Chinjao).
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TL;DR
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\"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.” -Patrick Rothfuss
The desire for freedom is powerful, but the desire to protect family is equally powerful. The order of the World Government is powerful, accepted by citizens and enforced by the Marines. To disagree with the Government is to disagree with the World that they establish. This can force good people to make a choice between freedom and family. But when a man can enforce his own order, establish his family and their freedom through his own power, even against the World's status quo, he will always be able to live with those two great necessities in harmony.
The key to this is power. If an entity, whether an individual or a group, wants to be free, they must have the power to do so. The stronger you are, the freer you are. Your strength will scare off certain obstacles, power through others.
So, what must you become to be the world's freest?
The World's Strongest.

The Life of Edward Newgate

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Edward Newgate was born on Sphinx Island 74 years ago. At a young age, the orphan Newgate found his island too impoverished to pay the Celestial Dragon's tax, the Heavenly Tribute, and thus were denied membership with the World Government. To support his village, Newgate set out to sea as a pirate and used the treasure he gathered to help out monetarily. However, with no one to look forward to coming home to, all Newgate ever desired as a pirate was to have a family.
In his young life, Newgate joined the Rocks Pirates under captain Rocks D. Xebec. He stayed as one of the crew's members until Captain Rocks went after God Valley, an incident involving the Celestial Dragons. On God Valley, the Rocks Pirates were defeated by Vice Admiral Monkey D. Garp and pirate Gol D. Roger, and the crew disbanded.
Newgate went on to form his own pirate crew, the Whitebeard Pirates, with him as their eponymous captain. Among the crew's members during the era preceding the Great Pirate Era were Marco "the Phoenix," "Diamond" Jozu, "Flower Sword" Vista and, for a time, the great samurai of Wano, Kozuki Oden. This crew was known as the only rival to Roger Pirates under Gol D. Roger, and would fight with the crew for days at a time. Newgate and Roger were well known as the greatest pirates of their time, with Newgate having gathered the reputation of "The World's Strongest Man," and were on good enough terms for Roger to borrow Newgate's "brother," Oden, and share the secrets of the Will of D. with Newgate, even offering to tell him where Laugh Tale was. But Newgate refused, as he already had what he wanted from life in his crew: a family.
When the Pirate King was executed, with "Golden Lion" Shiki's escape from Impel Down and disappearance, Newgate was the undisputed King of the Seas, the man closest to the One Piece. With the Great Pirate Era, the great pirate Whitebeard, alongside his former Rocks Pirates crew mates Charlotte "Big Mom" Linlin and "The World's Strongest Creature" Kaido, became known as an Emperor of the Sea, an unbeatable force in the New World. Eventually, "Red Hair" Shanks rose to their status as well, and the four pirates were renowned as the Yonko.
Perhaps the most dangerous pirates to join the Whitebeard Pirates were the young "Fire Fist" Portgas D. Ace, the only son of the Pirate King, and Marshall D. Teach, the pirate who would one day be known as "Blackbeard." One day, the Whitebeard Pirates' 4th Divison Commander, Thatch, found the Yami Yami no Mi, a Logia Devil Fruit regarded as the most dangerous of all. Marshall D. Teach killed him in cold blood, ate the Devil Fruit and abandoned the ship to form his own pirate crew, the Blackbeard Pirates. Ace chased him down and was captured, then given over to the Marines. The Marines announced his execution.
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And thus began the Paramount War.
The Whitebeard Pirates and their entire fleet invaded Marineford and fought in war against the Navy and the Seven Warlords of the Sea in a war that changed the world. With the additional support of "Straw Hat" Monkey D. Luffy, the Whitebeard Pirates freed Ace, but before he could escape the island, the Navy Admiral "Akainu" Sakazuki killed Ace. As Newgate's crew attempted to escape, the Blackbeard Pirates infiltrated Marineford and fought Newgate himself.
At the age of 72, with an incurable illness, no scars from cowardice and a bounty from the World Government of 5,046,000,000 Berries, the great pirate Edward "Whitebeard" Newgate died standing at the hand of Marshall D. "Blackbeard" Teach in the War of the Best at Marineford.
Whitebeard's death led to the rise of his former apprentice as the next Emperor of the Sea, the only man who ate two Devil Fruits and lived. All of his territories that he had protected were left to the hands of criminals. The home of the Marines was decimated and they moved their base closer to the New World. But it was the death of the man who stood in front of the throne of the Pirate King and his dying words that sparked a new light in the dying flame of the Great Pirate Era:
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A Full Analysis of the Power of the World's Strongest Man

\"It may well be us who will meet our end here today, for that man...\" -Fleet Admiral Sengoku
The great enemy of sailors and pirates alike is the anger of the ocean that separates land from land, the sea that traps men wherever they are. Laws will not stop the wave from crashing into the city; battleships will not deter the whirlpool's twirl; the hunger of the Blue will not be satisfied by pleas for mercy. If one is to fight pirates, they may become a bounty hunter that hunts the greatest of pirates to become a rich man. If one wishes to bring down the World Government, they may join the Revolutionary Army under Monkey D. Dragon. But no armies, no Ancient Weapon, no physical prowess will win a war with the sea. You may win every battle, but defeat is inevitable. Even the great powers offered by the Devil Fruits are rendered most useless against the ocean, with those who eat them losing their strength in the sea's presence. In this sense, those with powers are even more vulnerable to the ocean than the average man.
If a man held the power to command the waves, and ally himself with the power of the ocean, he would truly be seen as a monster among monsters, for he would possess the power of the world, and the power to destroy the world.
That is the power of the Gura Gura no Mi.
The Aqua Laguna that threatens the City of Water is a perfect example of this threat. Every action taken around retrieving Nico Robin and the blueprints for Pluton, both by CP9's superhumans and by the Straw Hats allied with Water 7, was based on the threat of the Aqua Laguna. In the end, CP9 had to leave ahead of the storm, and it took both Luffy and Zoro to successfully protect their sea train from crashing into the Aqua Laguna's waves. The dread of Aqua Laguna, at least until the invention of the sea train, was that the entirety of Water 7 would be destroyed, and it is exactly this that makes the ocean so terrifying. The unrelenting strength of the sea that gives life to all can take life on a scale unprecedented if given the inclination. An island with all its history and culture, countless families, unique flora and fauna, iconic landscape and powerful civilizations, can be totally wiped away and returned to sender if the wrath of Mother Nature is stirred in the wrong manner.
The Gura Gura no Mi offers its user the weight of tectonic plates, the might of continental landmasses colliding. It can trigger quakes in the earth or surrounding sea with impossible speed and scale, or all the energy therein can be focused directly onto a target. All it takes is a simple punch to disturb the atmosphere on other landmasses horizons away, to threaten islands from across the seas. All it takes is the swing of your arms to leave everyone who's feet touches the same earth as yours at the mercy of the world.
However, would this be enough to be seen by the world at large as the World's Strongest Man? The Emperor Blackbeard possesses exactly this cataclysmic potential in addition to a second Devil Fruit, an evil Fruit that cancels the Fruit abilities of all others upon touch, yet he does not enjoy such a reputation. What exactly is the apprentice lacking that the captain held?
Whitebeard was born with the rare advantage of the Haki of the Supreme King, or Conqueror's Haki. While all who work toward it can utilize Observation Haki, for superior sensing, and Armament Haki, for invisible armor, Conqueror's Haki allows a man to vanquish armies by the tens of thousands without moving a muscle. Haki is all but essential for those who wish to pass through the first half of the Grand Line and make a name for themselves in the New World. If you possess incredible Haki, then even those with the greatest of Fruit powers would be beneath your boot unless they could match your Haki with their own. Roger took the world by storm with just the might of his Haki, and both his partner Silvers Rayleigh and his apprentice Shanks managed to gain incredible reputations of their own without any Fruit powers. The World's Strongest Swordsman, Dracule Mihawk, was also not in need of superpowers to gain his title.
Whitebeard's Haki was advanced to its absolute limits, with there being direct proof of Whitebeard using the same advanced applications of Armament Haki (projecting the force of his attack outward, not needing to touch anything to damage it) and Conqueror's Haki (lacing his attack in the Haki, multiplying the strength of the attack) as Roger, both in style and strength. While it currently unproven that Whitebeard advanced his Observation Haki to the point of seeing the future, the same is true of Roger, and since it can reasonably be suspected that the Pirate King who conquered the world without a Devil Fruit is at least capable of basic Future Sight, the same should be suspected of his equal in Whitebeard who would not be able to properly match him with such a glaring disadvantage. The only Haki techniques that cannot be given to Whitebeard by benefit of the doubt are the internal destruction and Observation Killing techniques that have been demonstrated by only other elite Haki users.
The final supplement to Whitebeard's arsenal is his weapon. The naginata, Murakumogiri, is one of only a dozen Supreme Grade Blades in the entire world, other notable examples being Roger's Ace and Mihawk's Yoru. It is as tall as a small building and thus has incredible weight to back up its sharp blade. The durability of the weapon lasted throughout the decades as Whitebeard used it in combat to supplement his tremendous threat to even greater heights, making him just as lethal an opponent as any swordsman.
Even without the Gura Gura no Mi, Haki or Murakumogiri, Whitebeard is still an incredible force on account of his body alone. Standing 21'10, Whitebeard was stronger than the giants of War-Land Elbaf, proving such at the Paramount War against even the largest of Vice Admirals. Despite his size, Whitebeard could fight with impressive speed and leap incredible distances. But his toughness was of an unparalleled tier; in old age and sickness, Whitebeard fought through the entire Paramount War while taking hundreds of bullet wounds, stab wound, cannon wounds and even attacks from the Admirals that blew holes in his body and took half his head off, yet even after receiving enough battle scars to kill a small army, Whitebeard was only defeated once the Blackbeard Pirates entered the scene. He died with enough strength to stay standing. At his heyday, Whitebeard was known to hold fights for days without stopping and still be raring to go.
From every angle, Whitebeard can only be viewed as an elite among elites. Few could beat him in a purely physical sense, few possessed weaponry that rivaled his, few trained their Haki to the heights that he did, and few ate Devil Fruits that are as powerful as his own. No other character can lay claim to having peaked in every single one of these aspects the way that Whitebeard did. All these things in tandem are what make Edward Newgate known as the World's Strongest Man.

The Narrative Importance of Whitebeard

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Alongside Marshall D. Teach and Thatch, Edward Newgate is one of the three characters (besides Edward Weevil, his supposed son) that Oda trusted with pieces of the name of Edward "Thatch" Teach, known popularly in the real world as Blackbeard the Pirate. While Whitebeard is a direct reference to that name, Edward quite literally is the notorious pirate's name. But Edward is not the only important aspect of his name. Newgate can be seen as a reference to the character's importance in the world, with his death opening a New Gate for pirates in the world, changing the world with his demise in the same way the Pirate King did upon his execution. Doflamingo makes clear the necessity of Whitebeard to the order of the Great Pirate Era and directly ties the chaos of the new, worse generation to his absence.
Whitebeard has a direct narrative parallel with Shanks, as both Emperors (the only two introduced in the Great Pirate Era) were the mentor figures to the seed of the worst criminals in history, Roger's son Ace and Dragon's son Luffy, respectively. Both were the only Emperors to show up to Marineford, and the only moral ones anyway. While they aren't perfect reflections of each other, there are definite similarities. And besides Ace, Whitebeard was also the "mentor," or predecessor, of Blackbeard. Two of the most important pirates in the entire story, both under the banner of Whitebeard.
As far as the Yonko system itself goes, Whitebeard was the one who gave them their initial hype. When Garp introduces the concept of the Yonko system to the audience, he uses Whitebeard's name to establish just how impressive Shanks' membership in the system was. We are able to see this because being a Yonko isn't even the penultimate of Whitebeard's statuses; it is directly overshadowed by his reputation as the World's Strongest Man, which itself was only established well because he was Roger's equal. More simply, the hierarchy of Whitebeard's titles goes
The Pirate King's Rival > The World's Strongest Man/Pirate > An Emperor of the Sea
The only other rival to Roger was Garp, who himself was introduced in practically the same way as Whitebeard; other notable names include Shiki and Sengoku, but both were definitively overshadowed by Newgate and Garp. This puts Whitebeard among an exclusive duo: Edward Newgate and Monkey D. Garp.
The only other people to possess a World's Strongest title are Kaido, the World's Strongest Creature, and Mihawk, the World's Strongest Swordsman. This puts Whitebeard among an exclusive trio: Edward Newgate, Kaido and Dracule Mihawk.
And of course, the Four Emperors were a quintet: Edward Newgate, Kaido, Charlotte Linlin and Shanks (later "Blackbeard" Teach, Joy Boy and Buggy as a joke through Mihawk), with Whitebeard singled out as the senior and most notable of them all. On top of these titles, he was seen as the man closest to One Piece, the de-facto Pirate King essentially. No other character has enjoyed the quantity and quality of prestigious reputation that Edward Newgate did, and it is Whitebeard's elderly, sick power that offered the audience a true introduction to the Emperor's power.
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The introduction, of course, was the War at Marineford. To beat Whitebeard in a war was of such importance, was such a monumental task, that Sengoku had Warlords imprisoned merely for refusing to fight for them and gathered the largest force seen before or since just to hold off the Whitebeard Pirates, despite no pirate besides Newgate himself being remotely strong enough to defeat even a single Navy Admiral. Whitebeard fighting the Marines was the cause for worldwide panic and prayers, no doubt due to the god-like scale of his earthquakes. Whitebeard was not allowed by the story to enter the War until he had already been stabbed, and throughout he suffered heart attacks due to his disease. Everything done by Oda was to show that Whitebeard was no longer the same Pirate King's rival, the true monster he used to be.
And Sengoku knew this.
Yet he still put every single resource available, powers that could otherwise be used to protect the Celestial Dragons in the Holy Land, on Marineford, knowing the threat they faced better than perhaps anyone else in the Marines. The strongest Admiral, Sakazuki, learned this threat the hard way when he felt the wrath of a half-dead Whitebeard, effected more by just two of his island-devastating punches than the pirate was by his own head being melted away.

Conclusion

GURARARARARA!
Edward Newgate, the great pirate Whitebeard, possessed might that is rarer than generations. Inhuman physical prowess, world-class weapon, primed Haki and cataclysmic Devil Fruit co-existed in one man's body, the body of the pirate regarded as the strongest of them all. The Pirate King could not defeat him in combat; islands and their societies could not withstand his wrath. The world is his weapon as much as his naginata. This unmatched danger culminated in a bounty worth half a kingdom, annulled upon his world-changing demise.
It was this power that allowed Whitebeard to be free. It was this power that allowed Whitebeard to have a family. And it was his wise love for his family, their freedom, that allowed him to keep his strength.
This is the legend of the World's Strongest Pirate. His name:
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