King said he was verging on his limit.
As here we see a landed hit didn’t make a single dent
but after Zoro landed this attack he observed
King became forced to block
when just a moment ago Onigiri had zilch effect, now King has to block basic attacks?
we can conclude King’s flames become much less affective after sustaining damage
This explains why he turned off flame mode because at this point the flames had lost their defensive usefulness he might as well remove it so as to make use of the enhanced speed
Whixh is why Zoro’s adCoC only could defeat an already worn out King with no flame mode
Hence, why not argue in the same vein for King who didn’t have mink cum fed to him, that he was worn out from Marco (who we saw was capable of delivering damage) while Zoro started out at full health
Tldr, Zoro had to use adCoC to defeat a worn out King whose flame mode had been rendered so useless he was just in basic form
This version of King being a highly inferior version to Queen, even WW would have a solid upper hand against this version of King
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