I rate Ace as one of the most underrated characters in the series.
- Pre New World Ace beat Shichibukai Hanafuda
- Pre WB Ace fought to a draw vs (Highly motivated) Shichibukai Jinbei
- Pre WB Ace fought CoC Yamato to a draw
- WB Ace took out NW Veterans like Doma
- WB Ace fought very well against Yami BB
Ace strength and potential was through the roof. Like Luffy he most likely had the ability to level up several times during fights.
- Pre new world ace beat shichibukai hanafuda , we don't how. It's still a question. Luffy beat 2 of the warlord during pre time skip. Neither of them should make sense.
- Pre WB fought to draw vs jimbei? Ofc he did , after entering new world he got stronger and stronger and went to meet Shanks and was strong enough at that point for shanks to take a notice of this guy.
- Pre WB ace fought CoC yamato to a draw? How do we know she had access to adcoc back then?
- WB ace was already commnander level , YC2 , it shouldn't be a big deal at that time.
- I can never considered BB fights to be very well. He would take damage from anyone uses brain like bigmam during fights. None the less , BB dominated the fight , it was nothing more than Post 1010 luffy vs kaidou and pre 1011 luffy. Barely standing against a Yami Teach is not a feat. BB demolished Ace. Magallen negged the whole crew alone.
That's the problem , Ace barely tapped into haki , the problem with logia users are they are way too arrogant.
Haki blooms in battle but we don't if DF does the same. DF grows at a linear line not exponentially like haki.
DF can be trained to strong and haki blooms are unparalleled compared to Haki training.
Ace was for sure strong , but
Pre time skip Ace was barely veteran level.
Pre WB ace was YC2~YC3.
WB ace was around YC1.
And that's it.
He had zero feats to go past any of YC1.
Weaker than Katakuri.
He had potential for sure , it was still be fleshed out.