I'm very happy for admiral bros that this chapter hypes up the admirals.

If Kizaru uses conqueror's coating, this will change my whole perception on the admirals and I'll put them at a similar level to the yonko.

I believe that Luffy and Kizaru hit each other with conqueror's coating in 1092 and split the skies, surely both in base.

They should however not forget that Luffy did the same against Kaido and still took an L, so this feat per se is meaningless as we can't tell for sure they are equals. Luffy may be stronger, Kizaru may be stronger, who knows.

What is certain is that this chapter will lead to Luffy using Gear 5 against Kizaru and Kizaru might use his awakened powers in turn.
I kind of doubt Kizaru has CoC coating, there's not much evidence to it and he hasn't even shown basic CoC.
Also, it would make him stronger than Akainu (at least until we get new feats from Akainu), which would fuck with the powerscaling as Akainu is supposed to be the uber Admiral, the final boss, the man who pushes final arc Luffy or Sabo to high/extreme diff.
 
Luffy starts at base when he fights an enemy as strong as him. He uses his higher gears on enemies he know he can beat.

Luffy using g5 early against an admiral would be dumb because the fight can go either way. If G5 is ineffective early of their fight, then he has no other ways to win. And it sucks his stamina fast.
Luffy immediately used g5 against Lucci. Nuff said. Yet he is fighting and admiral comfortably in base and gear 2
 
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