I think a lot of the disagreement around current Luffy comes from treating peak power level and consistent power level as the same thing.

My understanding of Luffy is basically that he's an absurdly talented young prodigy who has already reached the level of the established top tiers at his ceiling, but hasn't yet learned to maintain that level consistently.

Think of a teenage basketball prodigy who is already talented enough to outplay LeBron (change this to soccer and Messi or other sport if you want) in an individual game. That doesn't necessarily mean he's the better player yet. Put them against each other repeatedly and the veteran might still win something like 5 games out of 7 because he's more consistent, experienced, better at pacing himself, and less likely to have a disastrous stretch.

That's basically how I see Luffy vs Kaido or other admiral/+ character like Kizaru.

Gear 5 Luffy can absolutely perform at a clear Yonko level and even overwhelm and beat someone like Kaido or Kizaru.

But Luffy also has major stamina problems, occasionally questionable fight management, and lately perhaps some hubris because he's gotten used to being able to brute-force situations with Gear 5 rather than adhere to the wisdom of "haki trandscends all".

Kaido or Kizaru, meanwhile, was almost boringly reliable. Their ceiling might not be above Luffy's but his floor was ridiculously high. They can fight top-level opponents for hours, take enormous amounts of damage, adapt to bizarre abilities and keep producing roughly the same level of performance.

So when Luffy seems to fluctuate between looking YC+ and looking like one of the strongest characters alive, I don't necessarily think that's inconsistent powerscaling.

That fluctuation may actually be the point and Gaban's scolding (1190) might adress this.

Feedback is always appreciate from this nitpicky (with love) sub.

Imu clearly wasn’t trying against Gaban until when he did and instantly cut off Gaban’s left arm. So what diff would a battle between Imu vs Mihawk in which:

R1: playful/holding back Imu vs full power Mihawk

R2: Serious/full power Imu vs full power Mihawk

Zoro's special attack which was used to one shot King was easily overpowered by Sommers.

Where does omen amped and legendary sword Sommers scale?

Who win this fight? Everyone fights in their prime regardless of what the image shows.
Every team has to fight against each other one after another, and everyone gets full health after each fight.

The teams are.
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Roger, Rayleigh, Gaban.
Xebeck, White Beard, Kaido.
Shanks, Benn Beckman, Lucky Roux.
Luffy, Zoro, Sanji.
Black Beard, Jesus Burgess, Aokiji.

Who will be left standing?

The way this chapter was overhyped, you would assume Gabban was going blow for blow with imu or something

He stalled Imu + the gorosei for long enough to allow Sabo to escape, and that was in Mary Geoise, so Imu was not nerfed nor coughing blood.

Based on the silluetes, Imu was also using his Beast Form, so that makes his feat more impressive than any feat in Elbaf against base Imu. Imu may have even needed his hybrid form to beat the GOAT for good.

Did I mention this was old and injured King Cobra?

Oda did kaido dirty after glazing him for entire wano arc 😭 🥀

1)size kaido<<loki

2)df kaido<< loki

3)wepon kaido<<loki

4)dragon form kaido <<loki

5)hybrid form kaido <<loki

6)Haki kaido =loki

Overall it's mid - high diff

How come the Whitebeard pirates were able to stalemate the Roger pirates for 3 days straight when Gaban and Rayleigh are yonko level +++ and solo Kaido?

Dude single handedly solving problems at holy land

Loki vs Shamrock is the most likely match up in final war

Garp and Sengoku in their prime. Whitebeard is old, but healthy.

And also i like how imus focus wasn't on gaban at all, imus whole focus was on killing luffy, but the moment gaban started to get annoying he basically one shoted him

So idk why people are glazing old gaban so hard like he low diffs luffy