Pica was around Oven level, and Sanji handled Oven with no problems. Daifuku was twice as strong as Pica and Sanji was able to match his haki at the very least. Signs of growth since the fight he had against Vergo.
You have absolutely zero evidence to support Pica was around Oven level, nor that Daifuku is twice as strong as Pica. There's also no evidence that Sanji was able to match his haki, as they weren't fighting all out and they didn't fight for long anyway. Sanji still hasn't shown hardening. You're completely exaggerating to prop Sanji up.
With the raid suit he is much stronger than an ancient devil fruit headliner on the suits first use without any adjustments added. And why have Sanji fight a headliner so soon with the suit, talking as if this headliner with an ancient zoan is nothing more than a quick win and test run for the suit? He is obviously fighting a calamity. There is nothing else for Sanji on this island.
This is also not true. He's not much stronger than an ancient devil fruit headliner. We saw nothing but snippets of their fight, and Sanji has done absolutely nothing significant to him. He's not going from beneath NW veterans to above a calamity in one arc.
The minks have Jack. Sanji has Queen. Zoro has King. Luffy/Law/Kidd have Kaido/Big Mom. There is a reason the editors are saying the series is almost over. We are in the Yonkou Saga. If Luffy is considered a true Yonkou after this saga, then Zoro, Sanji and Jinbei are his top commanders, and must all be at Jack-King level.
Sanji probably isn't going to solo Queen. Luffy had to fight two commanders in the same arc to surpass YC1 level. It doesn't make sense for Sanji to go from below YC level (getting humiliated by Vergo/Doflamingo) to all of a sudden being on YC2 level. Not to mention there's far too many characters in this arc for clean 1v1s, especially now that BM's crew has shown up. And that's not counting Jinbe, who is still stronger than Sanji and is not simply going to slow down. Based on what we've seen, if there are solo fights, Zoro and Jinbe are the only ones who have shown that they can handle it.
What might happen is Zoro and Sanji receive some help like Luffy did against Doflamingo and Katakuri. They are damaged because of something else (Law and Katakuri's pride). Regardless, if Luffy can go from 500mil to 1.5b, then his top 3 men/commanders can't be around 500-600mil after the next arc ends.
Actually, they can. If the gap between Luffy and the rest mattered that much, then he wouldn't have been elevated to over 1.5 bil while his next highest was Jinbe.
Edited by AHK, 03 February 2019 - 06:39 AM.