I just wanted to point out how insane is Rayleigh casually no diffing a God's Knight.
Rayleigh is a CoC based fighter, his Conqueror's Haki in his old age, less than 50% of his prime self is same level as Shanks at least. If it wasn't, Oda has zero reason to bring Rayleigh into the conversation, he could have easily brought up Whitebeard, a confirmed CoC user as well but Rayleigh is a CoC specialist like Shanks so he brought him up.
But to take out a God's Knight who Scopper Gaban, who trashed Luffy basically without needing his Blades required Multiple CoC Amped attacks to temporarily put down
CoC Attack 1
CoC Attack 2
And he used several other attacks too but I can't find panels right now.
But remember Sommers wasn't down for long, he got up in seconds.
Rayleigh with one casual attack
-Without Conqueror's Haki that is his specialty
-Without Confirmed Advanced Armament
He took out Sommers for long enough that one whole chapter passed
I'll be generous and say this is Rayleigh using 5% of his power. Being angry doesn't mean you will use your strongest attacks, he only used power required to take him out. It is like Luffy being angry at Bellamy, Hody, and many other weak character. Same with Zoro as well.
Gaban has Yonko Level fire power, he was overwhelming Luffy while massively holding back and it is fair to say what he used on Sommers is close to 100% since he used both Axes, Coated in AdvCoC and had a wide stance. He was even using distance to leverage his power.
This basically confirms to me that Rayleigh can potentially low diff a Yonko. He might be strongest person at God Valley and stronger than Xebec and only 2nd to Imu.
Definitely stronger than Gol D Roger
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