Board Thread:Manga/@comment-34196931-20190708230504/@comment-35822279-20190725194609

WaterKirby1994 wrote: I'm saying the Founding Titan may very well be both the strongest & weakest of the 9 Titans. The inherited will in effect makes the Founding Titan the weakest, as the overpowered abilities that would make it the strongest titan are inaccessable. I would guess Frieda was probably the better shifter than Grisha, however she was stuck with a weak titan because of Karl Fritz vowing pacifism. I would list Frieda's ability as a Titan Shifter as likely surpassing Eren's during the Female Titan arc, although along with Uri Reiss she was screwed over.

War Hammer is pretty much the 2nd Strongest, of course Tybur would have won easily against Frieda. Uri wouldn't have done any better, & would have also been defeated by most titan shifters. I agree that Eren would be able to greatly surpass Tybur if given another year to get better with the WarHammer. Eren would probably be the 4th best Titan Shifter known to us in the series, although he's possibly managed to surpass Annie & Pieck in terms of shifter skills by now.

Bertolt in terms of shifter skill I would have to rank as at least 6th as Armin has surpassed him over the 4 years following eating him. As for Armin, I think he's on the side of Paradis rather than the Yeagerists, as he doesn't want the rumbling to happen, however he wants to help Eren as well. Annie probably isn't going to arrive until the wall titans are awake if she does arrive at the battlefield before this is all over. I already feel like I said everything I wanted to say about the topic of Shifter strength so I'll leave it be as I think I'll just end up repeating myself. On the other hand I will talk a little about my feelings about the Yeagerists/Paradis. I don't think the Yeagerists are a real faction as they are more manipulated pawns meant to help the Yeager bros meet each other. I don't think the Yeagerists even know what Zeke or Eren wants and are just a easily manipulated group of ultra nationalists that are treated as disposable by both Zeke & Eren. I believe the real factions are Paradis, Marley, and Zeke (which includes Hizuru + Yelena and her partners) and Armin/Eren are firmly on the side of Paradis (Eren in a indirect and vague way). Armin realizes that with Marley's arrival (and soon the world) he has to help Eren/Zeke as he doesn't have much of a choice because these two are the only way to win the battle at hand. Its a tough choice for him as the rumbling could potentially cause mass devastation but survival trumps morality in conflicts like this and eventually every one has to pick a side which is something that Armin eventually came to terms with.