The excuses are pathetic lmfao. No other arc boss has been demeaned like Kaido has (accept for Big Mom-the other strongest Yonko), so clearly the Yonko are just shit tier outliers.
I made this point in the past, but I do find it funny the amount of people who claim that power levels don’t exist in OP because their own headcanon about Kaido being able to stomp Raizo is collapsing before their very eyes lol.
I made this point in the past, but whenever people saw Akainu solo’ing the entirety of the Whitebeard Pirates and said “Huh. I just assumed every top tier could solo the Whitebeard Pirates because Akainu did it.”
Yeah, no. The Yonko are not far above YC1 in the slightest. Whitebeard was as he was equal to Roger, and EOS Teach will likely be able to low diff YC1 level characters as well. Other than those two, Akainu, and Aokiji and Kizaru by extension are capable of solo’ing a bunch of high tiers at once. Probably Fujitora too given that an army of mid tiers just saw no hope whatsoever in fighting him alone lol.
But as for Akainu, yes he would absolutely roll over the scabbards here. The scabbards have been slicing Kaido up like butter, and yet characters who are probably bare minimum as strong as the Sulong Duo were nothing more than mosquitos to Akainu:
And yet, characters significantly weaker than the Sulong duo are literally reflecting Kaido’s attacks back at him and cutting his face and shit lol. Literally Raizo and Kinemon are solo’ing Kaido right now and wounding him in the process. Marco and Vista held Akainu off off panel but couldn’t injure him lol.
Meaning two mid tiers push Kaido harder than two top Yonko commanders pushed Akainu. Oh, and Kaido is the strongest Yonko supposedly.
Even if you can defeat Pacifista, that doesn’t guarantee you even register as a threat to Akainu
Literally Akainu is ignoring these characters while they attack him as he rolls over Ivankov who would probably pimp slap Kaido into oblivion as well, while Okiku stabbed Kaido through the hand and Raizo almost beheaded him while Kaido screamed for his life
It is not a question of portrayal at this point, “Oda just hasn’t made Akainu an antagonist yet!” Despite not a single antagonist prior to Kaido getting flushed down the toilet like a fat turd.
Akainu can defeat Big Mom and Kaido at the same time, as can any Admiral. After all, Akainu turned the strongest Yonko into a spectator