Pirates are spontaneous. They swing from ropes, smash bottles to cut with, and flip over tables. Pirates are laden with weapons. Black Bart carried four pistols. Blackbeard carried six, plus two swords and many knives. When they lose a hand they replace it with a weapon. Pirates cheat. You’re just as likely to have a bottle smashed over your head as you are to have a monkey open a hatch at your feet.
Argument: Ninjas win because of stealth
Rebuttal: Like pirates care about sneaks. Considering that theyre perpetually drunk theyre used to having things come at them unaware. Most of the time when pirates are fighting theyre also drunk, and that means they get attacked by all sorts of things they never see coming and they still win. The Tough as Ten rebuttal argues that one pirate has more brute strength than ten ordinary men or six loggers and therefore stealth is nullified. Essentially, if a ninja were to leap out at a pirate and run him through the pirate would only get angry, not dead. Faced with an angry, and not dead, pirate the ninja would have lost the edge that stealth would have theoretically given him.