I mean, i feel like WCI was the last super power up tier arc for Luffy - beside Wano that will makes him beat a Yonko, probably too ofc.
Because he basically started at a level between YC4 and YC5 - which is Doffy's level - at the beginning of the arc, and ended by beating a YC1 level character, and YC1's power level is pretty close to Admiral level imo, so luffy already few days after WCI's end, could have probably win in extreme diff against an admiral.
It's an insane progression.
Now, in Wano he has to become Yonko level, and more precisely, somehow above - he is already admiral level, it can't be anything else given the current plot - because even if it's with a good amount of help, he has to beat 2 yonko. If Oda is consistent in his powerscaling, which he could not be if he feels like it's shouldn't be, then Luffy will be at the end of Wano, a top tier among yonko's tier, probably able to win with extreme diff to shanks, and Black beard.
Actually the same question is there for Zoro - and even sanji if it's him who will unlikely beat King - if he beats a YC1 this arc, because i just don't see somebody like shiryu, which sould be one of his very last opponent, to be way above another YC1, that Zoro would have beaten long ago and thus be way above this league for him to give us a good match and good amount of suspense.
So.... My only answer is that Oda will find a cope to make us believe that when you reach Yonko level, it's very hard to go up in power without many years of training in haki and awakening, and thus keeping the suspense for the scenario.
It's either that, or he has to be very absurd and coward with the powerscaling, which he already does when it pleases him, for the sake of his plot, which is very lame and a sign of bad logical scaling of his world.
The last option that comes to my mind is that very soon - probably by the next arc -, Pirates won't be a matter nor a match for luffy anymore, but rather the hidden powers in the WG, like Imu who will be hyped to hell and back as Oda usually hype obscure characters, and thus keeping an exponential power level progression without hurting that much the scenario and the logic behind it, but this would mean that all our perspectives about who are the strongest, and the power in OP will have to be questioned again, and an issue that could come is that the characters that we will face will have an absurd power level, comparable to dragon ball or bleach characters.
Because he basically started at a level between YC4 and YC5 - which is Doffy's level - at the beginning of the arc, and ended by beating a YC1 level character, and YC1's power level is pretty close to Admiral level imo, so luffy already few days after WCI's end, could have probably win in extreme diff against an admiral.
It's an insane progression.
Now, in Wano he has to become Yonko level, and more precisely, somehow above - he is already admiral level, it can't be anything else given the current plot - because even if it's with a good amount of help, he has to beat 2 yonko. If Oda is consistent in his powerscaling, which he could not be if he feels like it's shouldn't be, then Luffy will be at the end of Wano, a top tier among yonko's tier, probably able to win with extreme diff to shanks, and Black beard.
Actually the same question is there for Zoro - and even sanji if it's him who will unlikely beat King - if he beats a YC1 this arc, because i just don't see somebody like shiryu, which sould be one of his very last opponent, to be way above another YC1, that Zoro would have beaten long ago and thus be way above this league for him to give us a good match and good amount of suspense.
So.... My only answer is that Oda will find a cope to make us believe that when you reach Yonko level, it's very hard to go up in power without many years of training in haki and awakening, and thus keeping the suspense for the scenario.
It's either that, or he has to be very absurd and coward with the powerscaling, which he already does when it pleases him, for the sake of his plot, which is very lame and a sign of bad logical scaling of his world.
The last option that comes to my mind is that very soon - probably by the next arc -, Pirates won't be a matter nor a match for luffy anymore, but rather the hidden powers in the WG, like Imu who will be hyped to hell and back as Oda usually hype obscure characters, and thus keeping an exponential power level progression without hurting that much the scenario and the logic behind it, but this would mean that all our perspectives about who are the strongest, and the power in OP will have to be questioned again, and an issue that could come is that the characters that we will face will have an absurd power level, comparable to dragon ball or bleach characters.
