In このボクのように _完ペキな仙人_ 仕様にはまだ成れなかったんだよ彼も！  
I thought that it meant "Just like me, not even he could attain the _perfect
sage_ method!"

However the official translation is  
"He couldn't become the perfect sage _that I have become_!"

My understanding or the sentence is that 彼も and このボクのように implies that both
persons couldn't attain 完ペキな仙人. Am I correct or is the official translation
correct? And why?

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grammar syntax
How is ~ように used/linked in this sentence?
The official translation is probably better, because apparently this creature
is claiming to be a "perfect sage" himself. (But it depends on the story.)

Probably you're misunderstanding what この僕のように modifies. You're treating
この僕のように as something like a sentence adverb, but this この僕のように actually only
modifies the na-adjective right after it, 完ペキ. この僕のように完璧な仙人 forms a noun
phrase that just means "sage who is as perfect as me" or "perfect sage like
me".

If there were a comma after この僕のように, then it's possible to interpret it as a
sentence adverb.

>   * 彼のように私は英語を話せない。  
>  I can't speak English like him. = My English is not as good as his.
>   * 彼のように、私は英語を話せない。 (sounds a bit unnatural)  
>  Just like him, I can't speak English (either).
>

**EDIT:** 仕様 here is not a synonym for 仕方（しかた, a way of doing） but a different
word meaning "spec". As a suffix, ～仕様 means something like "-grade", "-spec",
"-ready", etc (eg 冬仕様 = winter-grade). So strictly speaking, this sentence is
talking not about actually becoming a sage but about the "readiness" to become
a sage: "He could not be as 'perfect-sage-ready' as me ..." or "His body was
not prepared for becoming a perfect sage ..." The official translation seems
to have simplified this part.
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