Except when this antagonist was hyped by Shanks as someone who has always been powerful lol. Base Teach is commander level solely due to base stats
Something basic? He literally pulled the same exact feats Whitebeard did. Df mastery does increase his power, but the percentage is a minute fraction. So gura is an easy to use fruit, he already pulled Wb level feats, clashed with Sengoku and had a full month to get a better feel with it. After 2 years this mastery gives him 5-10% more power if I’m being generous.
Something basic? He literally pulled the same exact feats Whitebeard did. Df mastery does increase his power, but the percentage is a minute fraction. So gura is an easy to use fruit, he already pulled Wb level feats, clashed with Sengoku and had a full month to get a better feel with it. After 2 years this mastery gives him 5-10% more power if I’m being generous.
No matter how you look at MF BB, saying he was almost at his peak at that time is just bad take mate.
And, there are numerous reasons for this first, he had no awakening back then and he needed time to achieve that. Second, we have yet to see his third df in action.
These two factors alone can clearly make someone understand that BB grew a lot since then because he is bound to get these two when he will fight Luffy.
Maybe he was strong back then but oda is setting BB as not a commander level or admiral level or yonkou level fight for Luffy - Its for Pirate king