I doubt that we don't know how strong Shiryu is and we know nothing about King's haki my point is fighting a top commander is not "bad" because he still needs to deal with Shiryu some people here act as if he is top 5 or something since when fighting a dude worth 1.32B+ is a bad thing?
Your argument doesn’t even make sense then. If Zoro beats King in this arc, and is strictly King level, doesn’t that already mean he can beat Shiryu too?
Btw, I’m on the Zoro vs King train. I just believe Oda is going to severely nerf Zoro with that drug side effect so that the fight can be entertaining.
But as it stands, No Commander has feats near Zoro’s. And Zoro is still getting stronger. He is still learning about CoC and Ashura and Black blades and may even get Nidai Kitetsu at the end of the arc,
So even if you only believe Zoro is King level, that already means he is not going to struggle against Shiryu… Unless you are again going to say Shiryu is above commmanders