If you think Luffy was YC3 after the TS I don't think you can call anyone a retard. Pick up a mirror.
Luffy was 1 powerup from being 5th Emperor.
He insulted me first idiot, I don't start shit with anyone unless they come after me.
"5th emperor" was wank from the newspaper guy gassing up Luffy. While in reality, he was barely YC1 level.
Dresrossa Luffy was - YC3. We saw that in beginning of WCI (a more improved) Luffy needed help to defeat Cracker a YC3
Start of fight with Katakuri - literally got
no diff'd.
Stop with the agendas.
Luffy got a general stats boost, better mastery of G4 and future sight (massive powerup) since Dresrossa. Just to barely reach YC1 tier
anyone want to imagine what lucci does to someone like cracker or jack
after seeing how he completely bypassed sentomaru's defense.
Yep.
It wasn't even like Lucci was struggling in regular combat. We saw that he was able to clash with basic armament where lots of haki was used up.
Lucci got screwed over by toonforce nonsense (like people forget that Kaido himself got completely clobbered in the very beginning of G5 cause of the unconventional combat style, until he eventually got used to G5 and only then turned the table).
While Lucci was able to dodge/counter pretty much all of the conventional/straight-forward attacks from Luffy.
We even see that a guy hyped for his defence was one shot by Lucci, when it came to straight forward combat. And he tried to defend himself
People thinking that someone of Cracker level would clobber Lucci is delusional.