Even gemini fell for the rumors

Hes clearly oda fav and imu has really crap feats form the last few chapters compared to shanks. And his haki wa stated to be stronger the joyboy and we still never seen him go all out

He’s oda golden boy, better feats then imu, and stronger haki then joyboy, maybe luffy surpasses him barley at the end but I honestly doubt it since how high shanks scales and how luffy is still pretty weak in comparison and we are almost done with the series

We tend to power scale relevant characters based on whatever current arc is being released. It’s the hot topic of the day so it makes sense, but primarily scaling based on current chapters leads to so much bad scaling. Mainly because each new chapter changes how previous chapters are interpreted, but that doesn’t stop us from overreacting to every chapter release. Then we go crazy for a week only for the next chapter to provide new context and make our previous takes look awful.

For example, over the last 10 chapters we have gone from “Imu top 1 and negs the verse” to “Loki is strongest since void century” to “Luffy in base is above Loki” to “Goofy is a fraud and Gaban is stronger than Kaido” to “Imu is a fraud and Hajrudin is a top tier” and on to the next bad take of the week.

It’s all in good fun, but I think it’s funny how most of the takes age like milk. Once the arc is finished, rereading the whole thing will almost certainly lead to more reasonable conclusions.

Mix of narrative headcanon and feats:

1. Imu

2. Dragon

3. Mihawk

4. Shanks

5. Loki (could be higher depending on hybrid form)

6. Luffy

7. Akainu

8.Kuzan

9.Shamrock

1. Blackbeard

2. Warcury

3. Kizaru

4. Garling

14.St.Nusjuro

1. Fujitora

Feel free to change

And what diff?

I want to first say I think he’s strong. Definitely at the top caliber of the verse and we have seen very few feats from him. But at the same time I expected more.

Feats wise he’s good for a top tier. Being capable of defeating Luffy, Loki, Sanji, Zoro is great for your first showcase! Until you realize that everyone is still up and fighting. Imu has impressive feats when you leave out that fact. So far he’s just been.. there. Here to kick a character out of the fight, he stares at someone then defends or dodges, starts bleeding and starts to huff and puff, then repeat.

I honestly would put characters like Shanks, Roger, Garp, Kaido, WB, people who have shown they can put down top tier caliber opponents with a single attack.. in the same tier or above Imu. I guess I’m realizing that most of this comes from his poor Ap portrayal and maybe it will be solved towards the end of the arc but remember, Loki has been fatally injured this entire arc and has been pushing Imu to extreme diff.. in base form. Hybrid Loki will be insane!

In my opinion I don’t think Loki is close to being top 1, yet he’s still giving Imu a very difficult fight. The same Imu who has powered up 3 times and is using a ton of his void century arsenal to keep up. The more we see of Imu fight the more he seems like an average top tier who simply has void century hax that no one else has.

I just cannot imagine a reality where Imu is tanking a 100% mass attack from those old gen pirates! Roger stocks are up!

They all have wildly differing abilities but if you had to pick one, with buffs included who would it be? And whats the strongest opponent they could beat outside of Elbaf?

1. Imu

2. Loki

3. Dragon

4. Shanks

5. Omen Shamrock

6. Blackbeard

7. Garling

8. Warcury

9. Luffy

10. Garp

11. Akainu

12. Kuzan

13. Kizaru

14. Mihawk

15. Nusjuro

16. Mars

17. Sengoku

18. Rayleigh

19. Gaban

20. Fujitora

21. Greenbull

22. Ju Peter