Oda: Koby is his beloved protege. He's the future of the Marines as Garp himself told us. He even does the exact same training method as Garp, and he names his moves after Garp's moves. He also fights EXACTLY like Garp does, and he's even one of the contenders for the One Piece.
Powerscaling scholars: Eh.. I mean he's strong but it's really delusional to think he'll be the new Garp. Nothing in the story ever suggested that. He's not even Vet level really
You didn't counter a single thing I said.
-> Tashigi, Prince, Hibari, etc are also called the Future of the Marines. Drake and Smoker are also the future of the marines. Why do you guys always selective read for Koby??
-> Kuzan did the same exact method and he ain't Garp either. If anything Koby is Kuzan 2.0. He'll just be a non-bum version of Kuzan who doesn't give up on his justice.
-> He's not a contender for the One Piece, he's literally Drake's underling. That's like saying Dragon is a contender for the One Piece simply because he was in that panel, when the mf has 0 interest in it... like bruh what??
You are literally power scaling Koby...
- Who has he faced that was as strong as Arlong? Enel? Moria?? pre-TS Kaku? pre-TS Lucci?? Nobody. Literally bruh not a single fucking fight in this entire series. This is the same Oda that you're claiming is hyping him up, that same Oda hasn't given him a single meaningful fight against a character. His biggest feat literally comes in a non-1on1 situation where somebody else is serving a diversion, and he even then needs to be saved after simply throwing a singular attack.
Not a single perosn is saying Koby won't be an admiral by the time the story ends. The issue is y'all are glazing this man who ODA HIMSELF isn't giving any fighting relevance and thinking he's gonna be a big dog by the time of the final war, when other people who're young and also growing are being given more relevant fights than him...
Amazon Lilly: Multiple YCs + a Warlord + Boa Sisters + A Yonko All on the island, who did Oda showcase Koby fighting? yea you don't have an answer
Hachinuso: Multiple YCs on the island, who did Oda showcase Koby fighting? fodders.