You constantly keep attributing it to Haki while it was DF which got better thanks to Haki.
It is a new gear, not new Haki. Gears come from DF, not from Haki, this one is just possible thanks to Haki.
How comes you mix up the two?
It's not the haki my guy
It's the way he
uses it
The part of your post that is bolded is why Luffy's application is better than their FBH
He mixes the 2, haki and DF, and gets increased hardness
and elasticity
Pica cant mix the 2, meaning the way he uses it is less effective in certain respects
Pica hasn't been shown to mix the 2
You said this:
There is no difference between Luffy's G4 CoA application and FBH like Pica/Vergo do
Its taken me a dozen posts to explain why
I disagree and think that there is a difference
For further clarification pertaining to Luffy mixing the attributes of his DF with his haki and that being the stark difference in application between him and what Pica has shown is here
Luffy doesn't always maintain his rubbery features to that extent when using hardening, only in Gear 4 is that the case... at least from my understanding
Pica cannot do it even with FBH.
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It comes from logic that the guy who clashes against metal all the time and isnt allowed to have nicks on weapons
Never had any nic on his blades before he learned CoA
guy who is facing fists and has naturally good tolerance to blunt damage
Luffy has a blunt immunity that is similar to the relatively higher durability of Zoro's quality blades being better than his opponents and less likely to be damaged, haki aside
the same guy who was bitten through by a weak combatant who has no haki at all
In the colored version, Luffy isn't using Black Koka hardening
from the fact that in Zoro's hands swords can become Kokutos while in Oden's they couldnt.
It was stated that Oden
didn't while he was alive,
not that he couldn't. And it's not like Zoro has achieved this feat already
None of this logic is a sure fire way to objectively place Zoro over Luffy, and there exist no manga facts that imply that either. They use their haki in different ways and fight different opponents,
other than Fujitora...