In response to the admirals place in the story debate

I saw a debate yesterday about power scaling of the admirals compared to the yonko. Here is my perspective.

Many people try to predict matches such as big mom vs kisaru or kaido vs aokiji. But in my opinion the yonko clap every single admiral with maybe the exception of akainu. And that reason was introduced in wano. During the events of desrosa what we knew about the admirals was that they had extremely powerful devil fruits and can use haki. Making them really tough if we compare them to just the strawhats, but in wano conqueror haki was more fleshed out, we still haven't seen the full extent and applications that CQ haki has, but we know that when kaido and Luffy clashes it was something never before seen, later added to the recent garp developments with his galaxy punch. We can somise that at the very least the admirals arent able to use this power since they are always shown to be scared of it example: during marineford.

What we know about conqueror's haki is that it is corrolated with the desire to be king or at the very least a pure expression of one's will. I don't see any of the admirals for the exception of akainu having the power to manifest conquerors haki.

I do see all of the yonko being able to use it. That would explain why the new world is a place controlled by the yonko. Since if any of the admirals would show up, they would get clapped and be sent home.

In egghead island we know that Luffy didn't use his conquerors Haki against kisaru, being the Weekest yonko out of the bunch. He only used the normal application of Haki and gear 5 to ko kisaru.

What does that mean for the story. I would bank on the idea that everyone who has the power to freely use his conquerors Haki can beat and admiral in a fight. And the admirals at this moment are for the yonko to fight in order to protect their crew ( since I don't see any yonko second commander beating a admiral) but maybe after we get the results of Zoro vs Lucci. We can get a better picture of how more powerful the strawhats are.