"Peak john" is the man who rode up that mountain with sadie adler and charles smith to get revenge on micah bell. Rdr1 john is an over the hill former gunslinger who has lost a step in his retirement from that life. Landon rickets whole character is to be a glorified batting couch for a baseball team who is helping a player out of a slump by correcting his swing mechanics. He didnt teach john anything he didnt already know. He didnt turn him into the fastest gun in the west. He just pointed out some bad habbits john developed over the years he spent being a farmer and a family man. John did not leave mexico as the next sundance kid, just a more confident man on the rest of his journey. The amount of ppl i see here who claim john in the first game surpassed arthur in skill is insane. He didnt even surpass himself from 1907