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The Third Raikage's best attribute is his strength which even surpasses his own durability!
You two would be right if it was Ay (Fourth Raikage) whose best attribute is his speed but on this case, we are talking about a character who pushed a draw against a literal Bijuu, it's Hachibi, the second strongest Bijuu, known for casual mountain busters.
Fourth Raikage's durability feats:
- Easily tanked a Rasenshuriken which should fuck you up on the cellular level with billions of molecular chakra blades, keep in mind that the Third Raikage was at the disadvantage because of the elemental advantage (Futon > Raiton)
- Tanked lots of attacks from other shinobis at the war
- Fought against 3.000 shinobis for 3 days
- Was able to travel with Mabui's Teleportation Jutsu which teleports someone with the Speed of Light which normally rips someone's body apart
- Flesh like steel and blood like iron (but that's irrelevant for Zoro since he already cut through steel Pre-TS)
And now about his strength:
- The Hachibi thought that its Bijuu Dama was able to damage the Third Raikage when it fought against the Sandaime but the Hachibi was unsure about it because lf the lacks of memories (the Raikage was definitely injured, though)
- The Sandaime Raikage's strength, as I said above, surpasses his own durability with his Nukite; his Four Finger Nukite easily penetrated through stone and even rubber, his Three Finger Nukite adds far more force but his One Finger Nukite actually even managed to penetrate his own durability!
- Since the Hachibi couldn't remember correctly how the Third Raikage was injured during their battle but it was indirectly mentioned that the Third Raikage probably injured himself during the battle against the Hachibi; a beast known with casual mountain busting attacks like a Bijuu Dama.
But you are definitely right about Zoro being faster than the Third Raikage. Zoro is MHS+ whilst the Raikage is only MHS but even on this case, Zoro should be definitely cautious that the Sandaime won't hit him with his finger technique, that shit is powerful as fuck.
I see Zoro high diffing the Sandaime because Zoro himself can dish out casual mountain slices with nameless attacks. And his higher end attacks are sure stronger than nameless one.
Although Zoro won't injure the Third Raikage that easily - like I said, even the Hachibi had a hard time injuring him - his higher end attacks such as SS or ISDS should definitely make huge damage against him.