Dr.Fix said:
What factors? Why unlikley? There aren't any valid that I read.
Again I agree on some scaling probs but that includes Duffy as well. Bottom line Duffy has no reason to scale above Ace.
1) You are free to believe what you want. But the profiles suggest several things in Doffy's favor such as a) BB's lack of Haki, b) Doffy's superior range, c) Doffy's flight, d) Doffy's threads being invisible to the eye, and e) the fact that Doffy is at the VERY LEAST comparable to BB in AP/Dura stats. I could go on and on, but I think this is sufficient enough reasoning for why Doflamingo is more likely to win.
2) You misunderstand. Doffy and Ace have no relation in the scaling chain at all--except that both of them get scaling from Aokiji in varying degrees (which is incredibly ironic considering it should be the reverse as this makes 0 sense). Doffy doesn't scale > or < Ace. And BB's page suggests he is = to Ace. Therefore Doflamingo and BB's flat stats are equal in value currently.
What SHOULD be the case (regarding BB and Doflamingo's link) is the following:
Blackbeard scales from being stronger (unknown value >)
than Ace, who melted an attack from Aokiji (So either = or < Aokiji since we can treat heat as a counter to cold),
who scales from Doflamingo (Since Doflamingo didn't want to fight him, Aokiji is comparable at minimum, but bias doesn't justify </=/> for either of them--I think Aokiji is stronger, but again, that's a bias),
who scales inferior albeit comparable to Bound Man Luffy (Withstood a beating while injured and his threads deflected attacks from Luffy on-panel),
and significantly above Gear 2nd and 3rd Luffy.... who currently scales from Fujitora.
So whatever the case, Doflamingo's connection to Aokiji and Aokiji's connection to Ace are both a bit wonky as we can't debate if Aokiji is stronger or weaker than either of them with flat facts. What is obvious is Blackbeard defeated Ace, but considering their fight was... off-panel for the majority... it's hard to say if BB is indeed stronger, or not. I mean, Ace did wound him.