Thanks for the answer
Would you say that you put battles in a "second place" or do you still care deeply about them ?
That is a loaded, not-so-simple question.
In Shounen in particular, battles are never just battles. They're the ideology of the protagonist vs the ideology of the villain -- and when it's done this way, I love the battles. For example, Doflamingo and Crocodile vs Luffy. Queen vs Sanji. Because you have a goal, and with the battle, the character faces a struggle physical or mental to get over to complete that goal and defeat the opposing ideology. Thus, we get speeches, life lessons, characters at their lowest needing words or powerup to break past their physical or mental limits that are holding them down, and that's where battles in shounen are great.
Now, when you don't have that, you get things like (don't kill me.) King vs Zoro. -- I absolutely hate this battle, and the anime didn't make it better because it has no substance. Aside from 'stopping a bad guy so Luffy can advance,' there was nothing to this fight. Zoro got a powerup, and mastered his new sword, yes. But why King? Just because he was YC1? There was nothing driving these two to battle aside from King being in the way. There was no ideology that concerned Zoro and only Zoro to battle King, there was no deeper story like Sanji and Queen, there was just ... Character A vs Character B to advance, type brawl.
So, do I put them in second place? Yes, if it's a battle just for a battle. No, if it's part of the story.
More examples:
-Sanji vs Saturn would have been great alongside Luffy for the reason that Sanji and Bonney and Kuma all share so much themes tying them together in being kindred spirits. This would have been a great battle.
-Sanji vs Kizaru to a point, because he also matches Sanji in strengths, but moreso because Sanji and Luffy were the most affected from losing everyone, and being unable to stop it in Sabadoy. Even better, whole crew beat down would have been that poetic justice we needed.
Current battles... if Sanji fights the Vice Admirals will not be satisfying unless they're literally holding Bonney by the neck and threatening her, or if Sanji just runs past them and kicks them all out of the way in one or two panels. Because they aren't a threat, they aren't really a driving force to the current story. They're just 'in the way,' and have no relation to the character.
Sorry for the wall of text. It's just, not so simple to answer.