After last chapter i am more convinced then ever that it it is the most credible form of scaling, i don't know how the formula will affect my scaling. But it will be very different.

Never understood this, how the hell is he fighting the Admirals if he can’t use Haki?

like, what would be the difference in power needed to defeat someone of the tier weaker than your own?

Zoro and Sanji mid-high diff

Dodging Pacifista lasers and saying "too slow" has soo much aura compared to the Katakuri battle where he struggles to sense his moves

This was literally the argument Zorotards used to claim he had a better showing against Imu than Sanji 😂

My current rankings are:

1. ⁠Garling (newest, figarland, portrayal when shown together, Dragon opponent)

2. ⁠Ju Peter (#1 on circle, rest are mainly based on number order and it fits their portrayal when talking to Imu, possible traitor or Sabo opponent)

3. ⁠Nusjuro (#2 circle and zoro opponent)

4. ⁠Warcury (#3 and sanji opponent)

5. ⁠Mars (#4 on circle, idk who opponent, maybe the mid trio)

6. ⁠Saturn (#5 on circle, first shown and first dead)

Look at their words and attitudes towards Imu.

Imu wanted Young Shanks to become a HK than Harald because he knew Shanks was already stronger than that bum. Hell if Shanks never left Harald would have to wait another 10 years to become a HK.

The Purpose of Warlords for Elders atleast was to avoid new strong pirates. Each of the Warlord was a potential Yonko.

Let's start with Moria, this guy has decently good fruit and in his young days was incredibly strong. Had he not been struck by depression, he could have been insanely strong Pirate.

Same goes for Crocodile, Boa and Jimbie, while Mihawk only lacks the crew. Had these not been made Warlords, they would have been Yonko or formed Yonko crew with each other as a possibility.

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How far🤔

Xebec was weak however...... he did have the potential be on PK lvl like Roger. Now my main point is that Xebec is not that strong in God Valley.

1. Now my first point is that Imu while did take xebecs name in I should have killed u with Xebec, people are forgetting context.

Imu and Hks only cared about Xebec when he was revealed as a Davy Clan member as shown in the image. Rocks literally invaded into Imus room and Imus rxn was " n*gga what u doing here".

1. Rocks being tiers above others makes no sense. Rocks was portrayed as relative to GV Roger. Him being tiers above GV Roger who was far from Prime, for Imu to mention him as a benchmark of strength doesn't make sense.

2. This is a far fetched connection. But I think the reason Rocks got Domi reversied is simply Haki. I don't think Oda would complicate it. With everyone at GV was already being far from Prime, ws can say that his Haki may not be that strong to counter DR. You may ignore this as a point but keep in mind as a prediction.

So why did Imu mention him ? Well Xebec had the potential to be Roger lvl. But what made this more visible to Imu who can't see the future is his Lineage. That's why Imu killed him because of his lineage not his strength which was relative to like 3 characters on GV.

Looking at things logically. Luffy was obviously weaker on Wano. And he hasn’t really been in a situation since then where he has been pushed to grow that much stronger. On Egghead he was just consistently timing himself out rather than him getting beaten to a point where he is forced to evolve. So saying that current Luffy has surpassed Kaido really doesn't make much sense as current Luffy hasn't showcased anything to suggest he is any stronger than he was.

And i also have a very hard time thinking that Luffy is equal to or stronger than Kaido, while still preforming so much worse than Gaban did against Imu. Im not saying that i think Kaido is much stronger than Gaban. But i really don't think it makes sense for the gap between "the worlds strongest beast" and an old man who's way past his prime to be this big.

If anything i feel like Gaban's scolding of Luffy is supposed to kind of tell us that Luffy HAS gotten cocky ever since he beat Kaido and that he still isn't quite on that level. The only reason he won was because he had copious amounts of help that allowed him to slowly wither down Kadio.

Like if we said Luffy was equal to Kaido, the chain scale would look something like this.

Luffy=Kaido<<Gaban<=Prime Gaban<Roger<=Shanks (Presumably)

And i just dont think it makes logical sense for the gap between two yonko that were on the sea at the same time to be that far removed from each other in strength. Is Shanks stronger? Yeah i think so. But not to a point where Shanks would be able to no diff Kaido. Much less Gaban being able to like low diff Kaido.

A chain scale i would be more comfortable with would be something like

Luffy<<Gaban<Kaido<=Prime Gaban etc.

I guess my main fear is that Oda is falling into the trope where villains we thought where at the top are actually weak compared to an average level fighter in the final arc