More people needs to realize this.
Yeah.
When chars are being seen as a duo / form a pair in action-shounen context, they either don't have a drastic difference in strength (, or the difference is too big so it would create a contradiction.
Itachi Kisame and Kakashi Guy, for example. We know how strong Itachi/Kakashi is, and much much later Kisame and Guy are shown to be a real capable person.
If in One Piece Zoro is always, or only, have a Duo with Luffy, then his powerlevel formula will be x% of Luffy.
But Zoro has pairing with both Luffy and Sanji, so his formula will consider both, not just Luffy's like above.
not exactly even in this thread you got people who created accounts just to trashtalk like the frauhawk guy or kaios threatening to kill people and saying he hates his brother because he likes zoro, i remember bleakash pretended to like zoro to get into the zoro FC and constantly spam about how much stronger sanji is for example, just a few days ago there was some sanji fanboy talking about putting zoro fanboys in mass graves and mods let him get away with it too
Well, there's always toxic people in every sides. Happens all the time everywhere.
I'm just pointing out that they are more delusional than anything.
If you remember Punk Hazard and Dressrosa days, they're busy crafting scenarios as to why Sanji doesn't actually "lose" against Vergo & Doffy.
Random, targeted, newer example is the Sanji fandom in a youtuber's circle (SuperiorIQ). If you've seen the videos and comments, you would see Sanji fans comes up 1001 ways and defenses as to why he can win.