Eventhough Oda is nerfing Sanji, I believe he will defeat King. Oda knows that Sanji has a huge fan following and he will give him some cool moments.
Sanji maintaining 3rd place of popularity poll after all those years of Oda not giving justice is the most surprising... it's been like more than 10 years of not getting his moment of the arc!
However, I feel that if this arc ends while Sanji did not satisfy ALL his fans... meaning not just a W... but a MAJOR W that would silence even the haters to be very satisfying... Sanji will no longer hold the same value, even by his fans, and 3rd place would truly be lost.
Also, Sanji fans me included have this arc, In Wano as final stop for Oda to have climax for every strawhat, Chopper included... where we get SHs moments similar to the highs in climax of Enies Lobby... had Oda failed to deliver that, Oda is on my top shittiest mangaka hands down for ruining his series to focus on irrelevant characters and ignore SHs....
Soooo many chapters for Red Scabbards and Oden only to be this irrelevant for future events... and ignore SHs at same time?
What a fucking trash would that be!
Like seriously, almost the entire of act 1 and 2 is about getting allies, samurai, red scabbard gathered, flashback, then they just don't matter... AT ALL...
What a waste of time and space, yet giving 2 chapters focused on shining your main characters is excused by saying "Oda doesn't have time to showcase everyone"
Fuck that, he does have time!
I swear if Oda does not satisfy us with EVERY SH, to a similar hype Enies Lobby level, I'd probably stop this show!
Even if everyone shined except Chopper just doing medics, I'll still stop it...
Chopper needs it the most out of everyone, more than even Sanji or Robin or whoever!
And Oda just has him in laborotary doing whatever the fuck that is!