with the exception of barrier haki , i doubt we can say admirals got any advanced ability
for me , the chart is like this :
basic ----------------------------------
advanced
observation -------------------------- future sight
armament -----------------------------barrier haki ----------------internal destruction
conquerors --------------------------- advanced conquerors haki
Devil fruit ----------------------------- devil fruit awakening
the only advanced ability confirmed for admirals is having barrier haki :
but things like future sight , advanced conquerors or even awakening ( which many expected ) have not been shown
1. future sight
i used to think admirals had future sight cause of their feats shown at marineford
it looked awfully alike katakuri who sees the future and reform his body to dodge the attack
but future sight
isnt necessary to do this
so what the admirals have been doing can just be them using basic coo to dodge their opponent
now admirals are easily getting blitzed by other strong opponents
i mean getting blitzed doesnt mean u dont have future sight
but oda has always explicitly shown if a character has future sight or not
maybe with the exception of fujitora , i dont see any other admiral having future sight
2. advanced conquerors
we have seen kizaru show his full strength and there was no sign of conquerors haki much less advanced conquerors
and if kizaru hasnt shown advanced conquerors , i think its very safe to say other admirals also dont have it
there simply cannot be the case of 1 admiral having advanced conquerors while the other doesnt
admirals are portrayed on the same level , a conquerors haki buff will place a huge gap between them
its very similar to how all the yonkos have shown advanced conquerors ( with the exception of blackbeard who has an additional toptier df to fill the gap )
3. awakening
admirals are always highlighted as devil fruit monsters
many people expected them to finally show what logia awakening is
but unfortunately , we never got that
and we have also seen kizaru go all out
oda will never show a toptier getting defeated without even showing his true form
people thought punk hazard was the result of aokiji and akainu's logia awakening
but it can simply be their basic df powers
i mean it isnt very hard for aokiji to create ice mountains
he can simply freeze them in seconds
akainu might also have something like that up his sleeve
this df awakening thing is basically linked with every toptier who has a df
people were disappointed that kaido and bigmom werent awakened either
and now its the admirals
i think many people forget that
only some devil fruits can awaken
its not that kaido is not as skilled as lucci to awaken his devil fruit
its simply that his df cant awaken
the same is with the admirals
so the things i expected admirals to show was :
- future sight
- df awakening
but they didnt even have that
quite a disappointment