They were not hypetools for Apoo, for a character who Zoro can one shot.
You can say Kaidou hypetooled them and thats believable.
This is Oda writing "Gorosei Saturn is LEAGUES above Sanji"
even if zoro has one shot apoo he still used as hypetool for apoo abilities lol
And that's what I'm getting at: the fight started with zoro being fooled by apoo's abilities, then zoro neutralized him afterwards.
The fact that sanji is bleeding because of a hax means nothing...
The scenario is even favorable for us
Luffy is exhausted and Saturn will want to kill Bonney because she now knows information that the gorosei doesn't want to divulge and sanji is the only one able to do anything about it.
it's still happening