Law's rivalry with Luffy ended when Sanji called him out for being too focused on Revenge against Doffy. Someone that is actively trying to serve the D will not be chosen by the D (<----- this sounds sus as hell I know lol)
Law's and Luffy's paths have diverged. Robin telling Law "Luffy doesn't care about the Will of D" pretty much makes their goals different. Luffy finding One Piece and Law finding truth about will of d aren't mutually exclusive. As for other novas, I think Luffy being 2 years behind actually benefited them. They jumped in to the NW too fast and got sucked into the Yonko dominance. BlackBeard and Kid will probably be top rivals till the end tho.
In Kid's case I agree. Other cases he's shown great imagination tho. Still haven't even seen Kid properly fight anyway, so fingers crossed it gets better.
I know what they stand for lol I just don't believe in creating a universal tier for all pirates in the same rank. Who know if YC1 from BMP is as strong as YC1 from RHP? Every crew has different strengths. BMP intelligence and family numbers. RHP, smaller crew but the biggest average bounties, etc...
Yeah Luffy is definitely always gonna be stronger than his pack of peers. I don't think he necessarily needs to be the strongest in the verse to achieve his goal tho.
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