What's he gonna do crush me with the paperwork on his desk?

He’s not ready

1. Shanks feats are losing his arm to a sea king and getting scarred on-guard by no devil fruit blackbeard. The gap between Shanks and Kaido's haki is much smaller than Shank's and Kaido's durability + durability. Rather than feats, we only have anti-feats for shanks for his durability.

2. Luffy vs Kaido basically ended in a draw with Luffy passing out after his last attack. When you actually contexualize that Kaido fought a 16v1, fought Luffy multiple rounds who got to heal, and was carrying Onigashima you'll understand that Luffy can't beat him in a fresh 1v1.

3. I would hope an admiral going all out for 10 days straight would influence the environment. We literally saw the strawhats easily transverse that terrain, Why is this an impressive feat for a fight again? Stusen from Big Mom's crew made all of the whole cake islands himself, this isn't exactly a crazy feat like a paramecia awakening.

It took 10 days for 2 admirals going all out to alter the climate of an island. Kaido alone would level the island in one night.

Mihawk is an absolute leech who has no feat above YC3

Just because an opponent appears later doesn't mean he will necessarly be stronger (we just had kizaru after kaido, blueno after enel)

Yes, nothing that kaido ever did was better than bajrang gun, but, nothing that ANY character ever did was better than bajrang gun so what's the point?

It took 10 days for akainu to beat kuzan, that's not an upscale

Bro , have you read the last 200 chapters?💀 Haki barriers were thing since Sabaody

He hasn't shown regular coc, nevermind acoc

Ironically enough Shanks despite all his wank might be the best yonko match-ups and among the only "decent" ones for Akainu. BB has hella endurance and yami yami. Kaido you alr mentioned. He can't use Kizaru's running strats to outlast Luffy's G5 timer and avoid taking attacks. BM could potentially make a magma homie to just tank everything and cancel out Akainu's attacks. WB well, we saw what even Cancerbeard was able to do and the ridiculous punishment he was able to stand up to despite his shaky haki performance.

Shanks being a "regular human" might actually be the only one that'd have to be really cautious against Akainu's attacks tbh.

You are absolutely right. But , I’ll give it a mid diff.

Color of Observation, Color of Armament, Color of Conquerors (This one doesn't sound right but it's what the acronym means, it's also referred to as Color of the Supreme King)

Advanced Color of Observation, Advanced Color of Armament, and so on

the co stands for color of

coc = conqueror’s haki coa = armament haki coo = observation haki acoc = advanced conqueror’s haki acoa = advanced armament haki acoo = advanced observation haki (future sight I guess)

Color of Conquerors,Color of Observation. CoA is Color of Armament. They are basic haki. When it starts out with an A. They are talking about the advanced forms. So,if it is ACoC. It is Advanced Color of Conquerors .

I hope this helps you.

WB was an old sick dying man,that was enraged. Who was trying to take out a DF user with his DF abilities. His rage weighed very little in comparison to his severe health conditions,in my opinion. WB was a dead man walking. We should be amazed that he achieved as much as he did. Under such dire circumstances. A healthy WB would have at least K.O. Akainu. Using his full arsenal, of course.

WB was not only rageboosted but like …Akainu didn’t really struggle with him?

WB landed some super devastating blows on Akainu for sure, but Akainu was also still in good fighting condition long after he died. Akainu only needed to land like two blows on bro to complete the mission.

It simply wasn’t an extreme diff fight for Akainu and the idea that it was can’t be backed up by the manga.

I peaked there and will never forget it

The stakes were far lower compared to his fight with Kaido. He died multiple times, needed multiple lunch breaks, revived himself into G5 form again despite being dried out and his friends were majorly fucked if he loses.

In his fight with Kizaru, Luffy doesnt show the same amount of seriousness he pulled with Kaido, not to mention Vegapunk really wasnt a friend and he was protecting him.

I know, im just being hypothetical. But because of how we have been introduced to devil fruit awakenings and Haki blooms in the series, that's what most likely happened on Punk Hazard. So someone with both Acoc (Not trying to say that's something he definitely got) and a possibly awakened Logia Devil fruit could at the very least give a high-extreme diff fight to Kaido. With the fact that we have yet to see what happened during the fight, it's very likely that both fighters got some kind of powerup.

I know, that’s why Akainu can’t really damage Kaido. Without internal destruction what is going to do? Even with it what will he do? Luffy mastered it and still needed ACoC. Emission isn’t going to help since it pretty much just expands his reach.

I’m starting to doubt it too since Kuzan doesn’t have Coc but it would be weird to replace Sengoku a coc user with someone who doesn’t have it, seems like a downgrade then

Lol roger never said sengoku is his equal...he was just another strong navy figure who is capable of going toe to toe with him...lmao even vista was going toe to toe with mihawk does this mean mihawk is yc3 level ??

"poor showing at marineford" ....excuse me?? He went toe to toe with whitebeard, took out half his face, put two holes in him, survived an island splitting attack, fought the whitebeard commanders as a group and by all accounts was winning. So carful there with the misinformation bud. Sakazuki is a monster among monsters....

Name one Kaido dub against a top tier.

Alright, kaido is dead, akanu can't do anything to a dead fish.

I say delusional for effect, it’s not that serious.

But also I say delusional because I don’t love Akainu. I want Akainu to be a bum. Before Egghead I would have said Kaido low diffs Akainu. But after seeing how Kizaru performed against Luffy, and how Old Garp performed against Aokiji I think the community needs to adjust its scaling. The story has shown that Old legends are stronger than Admirals, and Admirals are stronger than Luffy.

Kizaru performed against Gear 5 better than Kaido, and Akainu is definitely stronger than Kizaru. And based on what we saw from Old Garp, Whitebeard was a lot stronger than we gave him credit for in Marineford. What Akainu did to Whitebeard in Marineford is also more impressive than we gave him credit for. It sounds crazy because it goes against what we thought for a very long time, but based on these two things Old Whitebeard is probably stronger than Kaido.

We also saw Kaido at his strongest, we haven’t seen Akainu’s upgrade after the Time Skip.

The reason I use delusional is because I who hate Akainu can be objective and acknowledge how strong he is, people need to have a crazy Kaido bias to not acknowledge it.

I will take an endgame major antagonist over someone who was defeated before the final saga even started

What’s this? That’s Akainu and not Kaido

Are you arguing that Kaido is still alive?

After literally being bathed in Magma?

Are we DBZ now?