headcanon to assume any top tier matches his fs as well bar kaido
with that metric
kata is a better fighter
How do you know that Kaido is stronger than Katakuri? :cheers:
Joke aside, of course portrayal is important as well in which top tiers could bypass Katakuri's FS with their AOE attacks or advanced Haki but even then, it highly depends what a top tier can offer against Katakuri. Do you think amnesia Big Mom, without DF and Haki, can defeat Katakuri just with her superior strength? Of course not, he would pummel her over and over again.
Katakuri is simply a tricky opponent in which top tiers win against him if they outlast his Haki well enough during a stamina fight or if they can match it directly.
Marco can win against Katakuri as well, simply by outlasting him, Luffy tried to do this as well at first but he rather decided to surpass Katakuri directly without that stuff. Dude is a stamina beast after all.
King neither has portrayal comparable to top tiers nor something like Marco in which he could easily outlast Katakuri's Haki. But King's portrayal puts him on a comparable level with Katakuri anyway - but on this case, the match-up is the most important one in which I do not magically give King the ability to counter Katakuri's FS. He HAS to show it.