You guys assume that every YC1 is at Katakuri's level, when it's not the case. YC1 and First Mates vary in strength, some of them can be close to their captains (like Beckmann and Shanks) or not too far behind.
So fighting YC1 is not a downgrade, some of them can give a relatively hard fight to Yonkos, and it might be the case for King. Zoro is not competing with the Yonko directly (for PK title) so him fighting them doesn't make sense ( it obviously makes more sense for Kid (and Law?) to do that) He will have his time against a Yonko lvl character when he fights Mihawk.
Oda not giving Zoro a proper 1v1 with Kaido doesn't matter. He still gave him absolutely impressive feats that you decide to ignore or downplay.
No they are impressive feats that you Zoro fans up play to the goddamn heavens to the point where some of you claim Zoro’s AP > a Yonkos
Zoro is fighting a YC1 who has not been more impressive than the ones before him, it is just Zoro fans that are praising him cuz he is fighting Zoro
Whether King is stronger or weaker than Marco or Kat doesnt matter they are all in the same ballpark and a battle between each would be nothing short of high-extreme diff
YC1s that do not stand a chance in front of actual Yonkos
I dont even hate Zoro, but I am sickened by his fans who jump bandwagon of giving imaginary feats to him like Hakai being 1000x stronger than Ikkoku even though Hakai is literaly half of BM’s strength alone