Simpji cuckboys are amazing.
They defended their virgin idol even when Oda was humiliating him at his lowest while the same Oda was making their nemesis, Zoro the chad, shine as much as possible.
This went for freaking years.
OMG my leg vs Vergo, lasting 10 seconds against Doflamingo, baking a cake instead of kicking asses in WCI, stomped into the ground by Drake, getting stomped into the ground by Animal King while pleaing for him to stop, the entire Black Maria thing. On a side.
On the other side. Oneshotting Vergo's peer, defending himself against an Admiral even pushing him back and gaining his praise, stomping fellow WG Supernovas left and right without even remotely going all out, Rooftop hype "strong pirates leaders of the new generation" " strongest rookies" "monsters" and so on, assisting and protecting his captain so many times against two Yonkos, a ton of impressive feats against the Yonkos in both offense and defense, culminating in blocking and then tanking a combined attack from Hybrid Kaido and Big Mom launched to destroy all Supernovas, and then go 1 vs 1 with Hybrid Kaido and leave him a wound heavy enough to leave a scar, without external help or involvement, showing Haoshoku Haki and replying Oden's feat and massively surpassing the combined strength of the Red Scabbards who couldn't even re-open Oden's old scar, let alone create a NEW one.
They didn't even believe anymore, they were destroyed. Now they exit from their hiding, because of a single phrase, believing that a phrase can erase a thousand of feats, portrayals, basically the entire manga up to now. It's so funny how desperated they are.
A phrase that only means that Zoro and Sanji are the strongest men behind Luffy, that "they have Luffy's back" exactly what the volume 73 SBS said. Guess what, we know this from... forever?
But somehow this "wings" thing becomes they having similar strength (willingly ignoring what volume 73 SBS said) . Come on. Don't be so desperate. You just want Sanji to be a bionde version of Zoro. Which sadly, he is not!
Zoro and Sanji are the PK Luffy's wings, sure. Just like Rayleigh and Gabban were the PK Roger's ones.
Still Zoro and Rayleigh are on a completely different level than Sanji and Gabban. Future WSS vs nothing and Dark King vs nothing. Haoshoku Haki vs no Haoshoku and Haoshoku Haki vs no Haoshoku. Right Hand vs Left Hand and Right Hand vs Left Hand. Rayleigh called Roger by his name, Gabban called him captain like everyone else, just like Zoro has a closer relationship with Luffy than anyone else does have.
This manga is easy.
Sanji can still be a good character and a strong warrior and he is. Some people's obscene obsession for him being "religiously" "almost on par with Zoro" is just nonsensical. It's like they having a difference in strength ruins their perverted Yaoi dreams, maybe?
I just want to remember that Sanji is currently fighting someone that Zoro intimidated with a casual flick of his wrist, while Zoro is fighting someone that stomped Sanji into the dirt with a nameless attack even if Sanji was using the RS.
Being in a panel together doesn't mean being equals or close. Oh, if you said it means, them be aware that for the few Zoro-Sanji panels, there are a shit thousand of Luffy-Zoro panels... and like zero Luffy-Sanji ones. Guess this doesn't count, of course, guess why... like all manga and databook statements of Zoro being the vice captain, being the first mate and on par with Luffy, of course they don't count, guess why...
It's Luffy > Zoro >> Sanji >>> every other Mugi.
Luffy extreme diffs Zoro.
Zoro high diffs Sanji.
Luffy mid diffs Sanji.
That's how always it has been and always it will be. Actually, by feats Zoro should mid diff Sanji and Luffy should low diff Sanji, but I want to be generous and to give more sense to the M3 thing.