im not using akainu vs jinbe to scale now. that happened like a decade ago in an arc filled with PIS when vista and mihawk were matched equally.
Onigashima Luffy's armament is WAAAAAAAY stronger than what it was back then in FMI. im not saying he put ryou into the headbutt against ulti (we have no proof that he did), but his armament on red roc landed on Kaido's face and was able to hurt him. unlike back in FMI. he got overpowered in that duel and luffy generally doesnt lose those.
cant deny jinbe stopping big mom's cognac.
Ulti matching Luffy is PIS, prove me wrong.
Feats do not disappear, that´s nonsense, no matter how far ago it was. Some feats can be contradictory, it´s a narrative after all, not a Tekken match, nevertheless we try to ignore outliers (Luffy punching Blackbeard around in Impel Down for example) and try to make it consistent. Jinbe blocking Akainu is consistent with Jinbe blocking BM post-TS, and a feat for his Haki and general durability.
Characters also do not get magically stronger, hence why Oda is constantly either revealing abilities they already had (see Robin now) or actually giving us tangible updates to how they are going stronger, Luffy for example with advCoA, advCoC, FS.
Yet here we are, Luffy still suffering from same Haki loss after using G4 for a few minutes, which suggests quality and quantity of his base Hardening did not change whatsoever, same weakness.
Proof for that please.
There is a reason Luffy is constantly getting updates for his Haki.
Red Roc was an advCoA attack.
Yep, that´s end of discussion.