@Blackbeard
> Blackbeard displaying powerful hardening
> Old Rayleigh saying he can't beat current Blackbeard
This looks like a pretty good Blackbeard chapter especially considering that while Rayleigh is older now, he is still one of the few non-df users capable to contend with top tiers while having a powerful haki that was compared to Shanks' in the past, all that while being a swordsman
So Rayleigh is one of Blackbeard's bad match-up and he admitted he can't beat him now with the old age. That means that df user top tiers would have even less of a chance, although being in their prime would help more I guess