To the people hating on Koby to venerate smoker.... why?
Smoker is inferior to Koby in every way.
Here we see smoker in disagreement, but standing on the sidelines sweating like a coward.
(It's easier for him to talk back over a den-den mushi.)
And here we have someone with
courage.
All it took was a few seconds of courage; courage that smoker doesn't have.
In terms of fighting ability, Koby once again trounces him.
Smoker uses a cowardly gimmick, a weapon with a built in nerf to devil fruit users.
Let's compare that to a real man's fighting style.
Bare knuckles, haki is his anti-devil fruit weapon.
Koby trains 200x harder than Smoker and it shows.
The first 3 characters in the series will be top 3 EOS.
Way more relevant than some loguetown B-Villain will ever be.