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For crocodile, there was literally nothing in that fight that pointed Luffy surpassing crocodile. Luffy was just tenacious enough and kept coming back and eventually won the fight.

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For doffy. You could argue that the damage law did to doffy confirms that doffy would have beaten luffy in a 1v1 rematch at the time during dressrosa, but you can argue that wouldn't matter because doffy didn't really do significant damage to g4 luffy anyway.

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For katakuri, it's obvious he let luffy win. Even though he stabbed himself, he was still the superior fighter and grew enough respect for luffy to let him get the W by just giving up.

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For kaido none of this applies. No matter how tired you think kaido was, luffy literally died. His heart literally stopped beating and everything that comes with that (blood stops pumping, no blood goes to muscles and vital organs etc.). You can not be more tired than death. With that in mind, luffy literally powered up and was able to muster enough power to legitimately over power and beat kaido by punching him down from the sky, through the earth, and into lava. This leap in power clearly illustrates that luffy had surpassed kaido, because not only was kaido less exhausted than luffy (kaido didn't die before g5 while luffy did), luffy at 100% would be even more powerful than he was when he beat a kaido thar was less exhausted than he was.

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So now that we've established that even though "kaido was exhausted " is true, it is still a form of cope. You can not argue one character is tired while not acknowledging the other character died and thus would be even more tired. Tired = your body slowing down because you need rest. Death = body shuts down completely.

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And yes this means kizaru is definitely yonko level for pushing a full power luffy to his limit and then feeding him to get him back to full power and receiving no significant damage at all from a full power luffy twice even though he was mentally nerfed. Admiral = yonko confirmed.

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If so big mom would have never lost to Kidd and law. Plus roofpiece would have been one-shots instead of back and forths.

So either Shanks captured loki off some pirate scheme that has nothing to do with actually 1v1ing loki (shanks downscale), or loki fought shanks in base with ragnir which is technically loki still holding back by not using his fruit. (also shanks downscale)