The only one we have a clear number of slices for is the lead meteorite. So it seems from what you're saying is that we should replace the values in the current calc for the string's durability to use the KE of the lead meteor.
This wouldn't affect Fujitora's calc, but would very slightly affect the calc for the strings.
Not quite. We know the large meteor had to have been cut by the cage. The point is we don't see how many pieces it was cut into.
The lead meteor was shown in 7 pieces, but then 12+ in the very next page (with several portions of it missing, so it's either fallen into a different location, or fell shortly behind like the 2 chunks we see)... so it could very well be in many more slices.
I also previously argued the reason for the chunks being so large being an artistic choice, but that's speculation and bias so you're free to ignore that.
Considering the large meteorite covers far more horizontal space than the lead meteor, it had to have come into contact with more strings, thus cut into more pieces.
We are scaling the Dura of the strings from the AP of the largest meteorite, so it's only right that we find out how many strings came into contact with it.
The issue for me is your second paragraph (that I quoted) since that's a weird glaring issue in the grand scheme of things. They logically should've been cut into more pieces, which they weren't.
Or maybe they were able to cut through the meteors, and then as they fell it got bigger in our POV while the strings stayed in the same size.
Tbh with the size difference the most I'd assume would be 7 or 8 strings, leaning to 7, as actually measuring the string amount is just unnecessarily difficult.
I argued previously that it was probably an artistic choice. Finding out how many of the threads touched the meteor is easy since we simply have to find the gap between each string (which i believe was already calculated), the number of strings based off of circumference, thickness of each string, and gap between each string, then we scale off of the location where the meteors hit (smaller radius, so the gap is reduced the closer to the top of the umbrella you get).
I think we had it somewhere around 20% of the meteor coming into full contact with the cage. I forgot the exact value. The only thing that has changed is the number of threads since the size of Dressrosa has been changed from what it was originally.
Otherwise, if we want to argue "Fiction, so anything can happen" (cop-out tbh) take the lead meteor's size, how many pieces it was cut into (I'm arguing >12 currently), and then scale up the number of slices based off of the size difference between the 2 meteors.
If kinemon was as strong as he is in wano, the ******* birdcage plot point is pointless too, or Kinemon losing to Law in Punk Hazard when he has strong Haki to slightly damage Kaido
This is one of the worst plot holes of One Piece, so I would not like Kinemon to scale to anyone on previous arcs
There's also Zoro casually fending off Kin'emon's assault when being accused of stealing Ryuma's blade.
I genuinely think he needs a new key simply to circumvent confusion because there are A LOT of points to bring up... Or all these characters are surprisingly relative to their Early Onigashima raid selves in power. Haha