i don't disagree with you, but kaido is different from all of luffy's previous opponents, also the fact that kaido can't be defeated in a 1v1 has been (like you said) drummed into us since dressrosa, even more in wano it's a well known fact in the one piece universe, yamato admitted she can't win against him despite kaido himself praising her strength when he only mocked luffy's power.
there are fights that one can't win on his own, even if he's the king of pirates, roger had to team up with garp to defeat rocks, luffy had to team up with zoro and sanji to fight aokiji, and with the entire crew to defeat oars, and the pacifista.
i don't mind luffy getting the last wining hit, but until then he will not be alone.
there are fights that one can't win on his own, even if he's the king of pirates, roger had to team up with garp to defeat rocks, luffy had to team up with zoro and sanji to fight aokiji, and with the entire crew to defeat oars, and the pacifista.
i don't mind luffy getting the last wining hit, but until then he will not be alone.
He evaluates Luffy as a PK competitor.
Different standards
Luffy has already exceeded his estimations several times in this battle, and even fought him 1vs1 for 30 minutes while Kaido was using adv Coc which he hasn't seemed to against Yamato so far.
Kaido isn't Rocks level, and that team up was between two D's, both related to Luffy's inherited will, one being his closest living relative who he actually knew and grew up with, the other being the man who held the PK title before him. Luffy is the union of those two aspects already. Rocks wanted to be the King of the world, not PK which didn't really exist as a concept back then, Kaido wants to be PK, so is directly competing with Luffy.
Luffy started a team up fight with Aokiji, but then ordered them to retreat so he could have a 1vs1, bad example there.
Oars was more of a weapon than a character, containing Luffy's spirit and in the end it was Luffy who fought him (and Moria) 2vs1 with his special boosted form.
The Pacifista was a weapon, not really a character, designed to drum home how the strawhats had so far to go in their journey, Luffy was hyped as the fifth yonko coming into this arc, has a grand fleet, yonko commanders of his own, has learnt adv Coc which only the strongest have, etc. etc.