What are you talking about?
Zoro fought and beat Kaido, top tier, in a 1v1, with 20 to 30 broken bones before he fought King. Zoro obtained CoC against Kaido. Zoro already had a battle against the top tier. It's kind of funny because when another top tier didn't defeat a YC he was not even focusing on you consider that a bad look. Yet when Kaido takes a L from Zoro it's nothing but excuses.
Zoro obtained ACoC and mastered enma against King. 2 power/skills Oden had that made him incredibly powerful. Zoro left Wano at a top tier level.
What you need to understand is the strength of Zoro's opponent isn't that important. What is important is how Zoro grows from his battle. Every opponent he face is just a stepping stone to prepare him to face Mihawk. That's the reason Zoro can and has face opponents weaker than him yet grown stronger from their battles. IE: Zoro battle against Branham. He wasn't stronger than Zoro but his range ability it made the battle difficult for Zoro to beat him. That forced Zoro to grow stronger, obtained flying slashes, to beat him. After Zoro obtained flying slashes he oneshot Braham.
Zoro fought and beat Kaido, top tier, in a 1v1, with 20 to 30 broken bones before he fought King. Zoro obtained CoC against Kaido. Zoro already had a battle against the top tier. It's kind of funny because when another top tier didn't defeat a YC he was not even focusing on you consider that a bad look. Yet when Kaido takes a L from Zoro it's nothing but excuses.
Zoro obtained ACoC and mastered enma against King. 2 power/skills Oden had that made him incredibly powerful. Zoro left Wano at a top tier level.
What you need to understand is the strength of Zoro's opponent isn't that important. What is important is how Zoro grows from his battle. Every opponent he face is just a stepping stone to prepare him to face Mihawk. That's the reason Zoro can and has face opponents weaker than him yet grown stronger from their battles. IE: Zoro battle against Branham. He wasn't stronger than Zoro but his range ability it made the battle difficult for Zoro to beat him. That forced Zoro to grow stronger, obtained flying slashes, to beat him. After Zoro obtained flying slashes he oneshot Braham.
That's just his way to cope with it.
The Zoro effect.