People feed to much into Oda having Luffy hype up weaker characters, for the sake of making the story interesting. Ulti and Page One have a small impressive showing against base Luffy and all of a sudden, OMG THEY ARE SO STRONK!!! Yet Oda has the lesser Straw Hats have a few small impressive showings against Big Mom and it's lmao, Big Meme, she sucks, blah blah blah blah... The only time Oda seriously cares about strength portrayals is the end of the arc fights, where the stakes are at the highest. 1 v 1's where its two characters going at it. Outside of that, everything else if fair game. You think one scabbard is achieving what it took 9 scabbards to achieve against Kaido? Of course not.... One would get boot stomped into the fucking ground. This has been an ongoing formula in One Piece since it began, but for some reason people are blind to that.