Will depend almost entirely on how Zoro beats him tbh.
If it‘s another Mr 1 where once Zoro works out what his deal is, he one-shots, then that’ll be a bit meh.
If Zoro works out how to fight him, and then the two go on to have a proper fight, that’s a lot better. Could have potential to be Zoro’s best fight so far in that case. My hope is that, like with Luff vs Katakuri, there’s a CoC clash between the two that signals the real start to the fight.
So far I’ve enjoyed the fight, I think it’s got a good flow to it. King’s background race mystery is more interesting than he is as an individual, though.
Exceeding expectations? Slightly. He was disappointing in his fight with Marco- the part we actually saw, I don’t care about off-panel shit. But as a right hand Oda was unlikely to permanently shaft him (poor old Jack did not have that protection) but King did have the looks of him being a but if an afterthought in an arc packed with characters. That’s been turned around. Most One Piece fights go with the villain being on top first, so I’m not especially losing my mind over him beating up Zoro at the start
