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Yes Coby has grown faster than Luffy had. I think Oda is trying to send us after a red herring on who will be Luffy's Garp, so he is strengthing Coby. I think Smoker's rise in rank is slow because he is already so high up, plus he is kind of a head strong. He continuously goes against the WG, where as Coby went against Akainu when he knows he was wrong. I think Smoker will get some advancements from VP and rise in power. Luffy has outpaced Smoker so fast that he was like you can't beat me how you are. The disrespect to say that.Real talk, has Coby had faster growth in the series than Luffy? Just thinking back - Luffy was already a monster when he met Coby's ***** *** on Alvida's ship. Obviously Luffy kept evolving from that point, but he had a solid base of abilities already from his childhood. Coby started from scratch and has now reached a pretty high level (for those who are reading the manga). If there IS a time-skip, I could see him being top-tier Vice Admiral level (i.e. still under Admiral and Yonko level, but really really strong).
Coby's haki has to bloom it is just him and Helmeppo out on the seas. His crew is a bunch of weak marines compared to Luffy's ship.