With Gear 5 Luffy was starting to actually be able to make contact with his attacks. Just Gear 4 and lower can’t because that luffys too weak.
And sakazuki and kuzan have better feats and portrayal so I don’t think it’s just agenda that pushes them above the other admirals.
He never made contact with G5 except last hit which is a plot device that was needed to stall Kizaru.
Strength of hits isnt the issue, Kizaru is too good at CQC, he wont be having easy time landing attacks as he did on Kaido.
Kuzan was just smacked by old retired Garp and his near equal Akainu would fare the same.
No way the swordsmen Admirals would fare that bad and Kizaru already proved it against Snakeman.
Kuzan and Akainu are slow pokes, they are the weakest. Swordbois rule supreme.
How many name attacks did luffy do during that fight in G5 .
Kizaru did 2 name attacks and luffy did 2 name attacks .( you can check the manga the fight just part of 3 chapters lol .)
So i not certain where you going with the plot made Kizaru not use name moves lol .
I dont remember even two attacks from Luffy aside from last hit.
I know Kizaru didnt use any named attack, he only named his sword, which isnt an attack, and traveling application of YNM.
I said plot made Kizaru not use any named attacks vs Luffy and that is correct.
Name of the sword aint an attack and while YNM is an attack usually, this time it was used as traveling technique instead.