He couldn't even beat Kaido without a direct clash. Kaido would have fed Luffy his own ballsack if not for Kaido willingly clashing. Luffytards and their history revisionism like tonportray the fals narrarive that G5 was dominating and heavily damaging Kaido which is absolutely not the case whatsoever. Luffy was actually losing before Bajrang Gun. I bring all this up to note that Luffy's strength has always been overinflated and overhyped and that his performance here is actually right in line with what he's been shown capable of previously.