what would zoro do to make you think he will be high admiral lv by end of wano?
imo, i think the gap between YC1 and admiral is quite big.
I can see Zoro sitting somewhere between this gap by the end of wano, leaning closer to the admiral spectrum.
So using the battle forum tier list, I’d put YC1 into High High Tier & Admirals into Mid Top Tier.
Zoro’s feats on the roof already are more than I’d expect from a YC1. I don’t believe Katakuri or King could scar Kaido. And I don’t think either could take Hakai on however briefly.
Luffy beat Katakuri in WCI, and even though that victory is overall suspect, by the end I think it’s fair to say Luffy ~ Katakuri. Then Kaido absolutely demolished Luffy in one shot from a far far weaker attack than Hakai. Now, I’m willing to accept Luffy being one shot as PIS. But even if a one shot was too far by Oda, I think that shows thay rooftop Zoro > Luffy during round 1 with Kaido. Which means Zoro > Katakuri.
So that already has me putting Zoro over YC1. Then if Zoro defeats King while still nerfed from Hakai (I’m not expecting Chopper to fully recover him 100%), that shows the gap between Zoro & a YC1 to be even greater.
And I’m also not ruling out Zoro either forging a black blade in Wano whether it be against King or Kaido, or Zoro developing his ability to put CoC into his attacks now that he’s aware he has it. If he does even 1 of those things, which both would be
major power ups IMO, while beating King pre injured I’m willing to put Zoro in the tier of Admirals.
Coming out of Wano I expect the SH’s to be approaching their end game but not there yet. And I think Zoro will be Yonko level by EOS. So that puts him in striking distance while still having room to grow.