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Disclaimer
High tiers of One Piece are those who are currently listed as "Small Country level+" scaling from Gear 4th Luffy, who is currently listed as 3x stronger than he was when he defeated the Black Knight with Gear 2nd.
Top tiers are the ones who scale above Fujitora's 6-B meteorite. They do not factor here in the slightest.
Descriptio
Alright, it's about time I've brought this up, and no: High tiers are not scaling to the Top tiers for taking casual hits or dealing superficial damage to them.
With that out of the way, let's begin.
Now, we currently base Gear 4th Luffy as 6.9 Teratons in AP and Durability via scaling from Doflamingo's statement from the manga, where he implies "He is using the tensile strength in order to triple the damage of his attacks". This is, however, not the accurate translation. I can not currently find the actual Viz panel (unless this is it. I believe it is.), but Doflamingo actually says something along the lines of "He's hardening his body with Busoshoku... And now he's using the tensile force to raise his attack power several times over its limit". I'll explain why this changes everything:
We're basing Gear 4th Luffy off of Gear 2nd defeating the Black Knight. The problem here is obvious, especially if we take into consideration what Doflamingo stated in bold letters. He specifically notes that Luffy increased his power several times over his "limit". What was the full extent in which Doflamingo experienced Luffy's power? Gear 2nd Hawk attacks, and Gear 3rd Elephant Gun, which are both more powerful than any of Luffy's normal Gear 2nd attacks. And Doflamingo took many attacks from the former and blocked the latter.
Even if we remained with the "3x" statement (As Several means "At least 3"), that would still be enough to bump Gear 4th Luffy at least over Base-line. He's already touching it if we disregard what is brought in the previous paragraph. And another matter to consider is that Gear 4th Luffy is constantly utilizing Busoshoku Haki, which we do not factor into AP due to the increase in power being undetermined. Doflamingo would be comparing Gear 4th's physical power to that of Gear 2nd - Hawk edition, or even Gear 3rd, both being considerably stronger than Gear 2nd in general.
Conclusion
All of the High tiers listed as "Small Country level" (except Black Knight, obviously) Would instead be listed as "At least Small Country level" and those who scale directly from Gear 4th Luffy would be changed from "At least Small Country level+, likely higher" to "Likely Country level" instead.
High tiers of One Piece are those who are currently listed as "Small Country level+" scaling from Gear 4th Luffy, who is currently listed as 3x stronger than he was when he defeated the Black Knight with Gear 2nd.
Top tiers are the ones who scale above Fujitora's 6-B meteorite. They do not factor here in the slightest.
Descriptio
Alright, it's about time I've brought this up, and no: High tiers are not scaling to the Top tiers for taking casual hits or dealing superficial damage to them.
With that out of the way, let's begin.
Now, we currently base Gear 4th Luffy as 6.9 Teratons in AP and Durability via scaling from Doflamingo's statement from the manga, where he implies "He is using the tensile strength in order to triple the damage of his attacks". This is, however, not the accurate translation. I can not currently find the actual Viz panel (unless this is it. I believe it is.), but Doflamingo actually says something along the lines of "He's hardening his body with Busoshoku... And now he's using the tensile force to raise his attack power several times over its limit". I'll explain why this changes everything:
We're basing Gear 4th Luffy off of Gear 2nd defeating the Black Knight. The problem here is obvious, especially if we take into consideration what Doflamingo stated in bold letters. He specifically notes that Luffy increased his power several times over his "limit". What was the full extent in which Doflamingo experienced Luffy's power? Gear 2nd Hawk attacks, and Gear 3rd Elephant Gun, which are both more powerful than any of Luffy's normal Gear 2nd attacks. And Doflamingo took many attacks from the former and blocked the latter.
Even if we remained with the "3x" statement (As Several means "At least 3"), that would still be enough to bump Gear 4th Luffy at least over Base-line. He's already touching it if we disregard what is brought in the previous paragraph. And another matter to consider is that Gear 4th Luffy is constantly utilizing Busoshoku Haki, which we do not factor into AP due to the increase in power being undetermined. Doflamingo would be comparing Gear 4th's physical power to that of Gear 2nd - Hawk edition, or even Gear 3rd, both being considerably stronger than Gear 2nd in general.
Conclusion
All of the High tiers listed as "Small Country level" (except Black Knight, obviously) Would instead be listed as "At least Small Country level" and those who scale directly from Gear 4th Luffy would be changed from "At least Small Country level+, likely higher" to "Likely Country level" instead.
