He got jumped and sneaked by Sanji, Franky, and Jinbe. I’ll give Base Killingham a pass for losing badly there
This. So far, the only God's Knight to lose in a 1v1 was Sommers to Gyaban, and after seeing what Low HP Gyaban just did against Imu, it's really hard to say Sommers is weak from that.
Then Killingham gets ganged up on by two Yonkou Commanders and a guy who drove a motorbike into Big Mom's face, and Sommers gets tagged by Gear 5 Luffy, Full Zoan Loki, and Zoro.
Oda's been really good with the God's Knight powerscaling.
Old Rayleigh matches Kizaru, Sommers loses to Gyaban fits the "Admirals are the strongest force" (since people aren't supposed to know the Gorosei and Imu are the true strongest).
Only really wonky powerscaling in this arc for me is Ragnir, it's really hard to figure out how strong he actually is.
Imu > Gorosei > Admirals > God's Knights > CP0 > Vice Admirals (besides outliers like Garp that didn't get promoted for political and personal reasons) seems to be a pretty functional tier list at this point, with Shamrock probably being above the Admirals (I think Shamrock becomes the New Fleet Admiral after this, no way the CDs are going to accept Akainu's failures regarding Kuma after what happened at Egghead afterwards).
Since we haven't seen an Admiral with CoC, we have to place the God's Knights with Omen above the Admirals, because how in the fuck are they going to do anything without CoC against regen?