Oda saying ray and shanks could ko all 100,000 compared to fmi luffys 50,000 does not at all mean rayleigh and shanks coc is on the same level
Its like saying idk sasaki can defeat 50 out of 100 sulong minks while jack, akainu, and Magellan can beat all 100. It doesn't mean they're all the same level just that they're all stronger than sasaki
Also back then they were the only oness outside of boa we knew had conquerors. Could the other yonko and other countries we now know of do the same? Maybe but that doesn't put them at the same level just means they're a good amount stronger than fmi luffy
Rayleigh hasn't shown any haki that oden doesn't. With Oden also having the likely being the better swordsman and being even more special with him like roger having the voice of all things
Here's the SBS question.
D: Luffy's haoshoku haki was able to affect 50,000 men, but how many would Shanks and the others be able to defeat? P.N. Captain Nobuo
O: In exactly the same place and exact same situation as Luffy, Shanks or Rayleigh may have been capable of knocking out all 100,000. In a different setting, you can't really compare just by asking "how many people". Being able to knock an enemy out with haki depends entirely on having an overwhelming power gap between the two. In Luffy's case the point is the number of people that were so weak that they were not even worth him fighting. If there were 100,000 to-some-extent-strong-willed pirates before him, it's possible that he wouldn't even be able to knock out a single one. On a related note, as one's proficiency with haoshoku advances, it's even possible to target a few people in a crowd to NOT knock out
The question was about Shanks and the others and at that point we knew that Boa, Whitebeard, Kid and Rayleigh were Conquerors outside of Shanks. He mentions Rayleigh
alone. And it isn't just the first time, Garp also puts him on the same pedestal as Whitebeard.
No matter how you want to slice it, he's up there lol.
Rayleigh hasn't shown any haki that oden doesn't. With Oden also having the likely being the better swordsman and being even more special with him like roger having the voice of all things
False Rayleigh could use the more advanced form of Armament - the internal destruction one - while
even Oden couldn't do it and he died in chains.
Rayleigh's Conquerors Haki is on par with Shanks, knows how to flow his CoA haki outside of his body. He had all the necessary knowledge to use ACoC as well.
In fact, it's the other way around - Oden has never had the same portrayal/haki feat that Oda gave Rayleigh. And Oden being the better swordsman is purely conjecture and VOAT is useless in battle.