Tristan's statement reflects on how people saw her though, yes it was based on his own preconceptions but pretty much everyone thought she was like that.
True but at the same time, he made that call based on his current perception, not when he fully grasped the situation as a Servant like many of the Knights have after the fact.
There's a reason why most of them are filled with regret in many cases and how they believe they failed their King in many cases with the only one being unapologetic is Mordred.
Kaido (OP) vs Orochi (OPM)
Both are at their peak and gets all shown feats as well as scaling. Round 1: Kaido vs Orochi (Gaia Cannon restricted) Round 2: Kaido vs Orochi (Gaia Cannon usable) Location: Greece Win Conditions: Death
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It's still weird to me SB refuses to give One Piece it's due considering we know the Planet it's on is far, far bigger than we think due to how much landmass and sea there is and alot of the Islands the Strawhats have been on is freaking gigantic by "Island" standards.
EDIT: Let me bring in 2 extremely obvious examples of OP Downplay in that thread:
宝玉氷床 is the original name for the geographic feature that Chinjao split with his headbutt. 宝玉 means 'jewel', though 'crystal' is less awkward in English as part of the full phrase. 氷 means 'ice'. 床 means 'floor' or 'bed'. Crystal Ice Sheet seems to be what Viz went with. There's nothing here that suggests 'continent', which is 大陸, translating literally as 'big land' or 'mainland'. This is why I say it only exists in bad translations, because some bad translations did call it the Ice Continent.
And nothing we see on screen is even close to the size of a continent, he split a section that was maybe as big as a skyscraper.
Shiki is literally a non attacking move that scales to nothing
Baijrang gun one shot Kaido
Whitebeards quakes are basically never calced to multi continental except through wank calcs
EDIT #2:
Dude, if you can't imagine your character being able to circle the earth at least 7 times then it isn't fucking FTL.
By SB's ridiculous logic, Saitama shouldn't be FTL either considering how late he is consistently getting anywhere and being scared he won't make it to the grocery store for their sale on time...