Speculations Zoro woud be handicapped in his fight against Shiryu

Wtf are you talking about bro? The lineup in Xebec’s crew are all confirmed mid to high-top-tier level people and yonkos. That is literally the peak of PL established with only Joyboy and Imu (2 lategame EoS additions) surpassing that by a good margin. We’ve already seen the gorosei and they’re also just hovering around that level with added regen hax. Only Luffy will surpass that level, Jinbei can go to hell. He’s yc1 level max with new PUs, he should have already reached his ceiling a long time ago. Never mind the rest of the SHs below him.
Zoro and Sanji will literally be Yonko level at least, who knows who’ll join the crew next but I’m sure the straw hats will get their oden equivalent who’ll hit yonko level, Usopp is set to far surpass his father who’s a High tier on his own, and the rest of the straw hats are all going to be High tiers as well with Franky and Robin already comparable to jinbe on land they’ll grow to being comparable with water jinbe by end of series easy.

acting like this crew is capped by anyone is nuts.
 
About Shiryu strength debate , I don't think he is stronger than kuzan or blackbeard. But he can be aleast oden level . Zoro is already surpass oden at wano and eggland prove it.

Shiryu would be pica 2.0 as tricky fighter force zoro use coO at limit . Zoro will hit and struggle to find him.

The battle would start when Shiryu attack zoro out of nowhere .
 
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Zoro and Sanji will literally be Yonko level at least, who knows who’ll join the crew next but I’m sure the straw hats will get their oden equivalent who’ll hit yonko level, Usopp is set to far surpass his father who’s a High tier on his own, and the rest of the straw hats are all going to be High tiers as well with Franky and Robin already comparable to jinbe on land they’ll grow to being comparable with water jinbe by end of series easy.

acting like this crew is capped by anyone is nuts.
We don’t know if Usopp will even surpass his dad in combat power, there’s literally no indication of that being a done deal. Yasopp is a high commander and Usopp can’t even get past Page 1 the last time I checked. He’s not about winning through brute force but with tactics, meaning he‘ll sit really low in a traditional tierlist even by EoS. He’s a weak character by design but he’ll have more character moments.

A bunch of high-tiers that aren’t even as strong as Katakuri by the end of the series has a higher chance of losing to Wang Zhi (who has solid top-tier portrayal even in his advanced age) alone. Just count the number of top-tiers from either side and that’s the simplest solution. Not unless Luffy reaches a peak where he can solo multiple yonko level characters at once… a very unlikely thing to happen.
 
We don’t know if Usopp will even surpass his dad in combat power, there’s literally no indication of that being a done deal. Yasopp is a high commander and Usopp can’t even get past Page 1 the last time I checked. He’s not about winning through brute force but with tactics, meaning he‘ll sit really low in a traditional tierlist even by EoS. He’s a weak character by design but he’ll have more character moments.

A bunch of high-tiers that aren’t even as strong as Katakuri by the end of the series has a higher chance of losing to Wang Zhi (who has solid top-tier portrayal even in his advanced age) alone. Just count the number of top-tiers from either side and that’s the simplest solution. Not unless Luffy reaches a peak where he can solo multiple yonko level characters at once… a very unlikely thing to happen.
Unless you think Van Augur isn’t going to be stronger than Yasopp for some reason, then of course Usopps going to vastly surpass his father.

They’ll all be >= Katakuri.
 
Oda can always just hype up Shiryu's blade, haki and fruit then use those to make for a decent Zoro fight. Awakening his fruit can make it pretty dangerous if Oda plays it right. Just off feats and portrayal, he's YC1 just not the most impressive one but his blade is clearly lethal if the Garp feat is anything to go by so he's a great swordsman and his fruit could awaken to make for a good match wiith Zoro. I used to hope he'd get his blade to eat a devil fruit back when I was underwhelmed by his fruit but Oda can just hype it up and make him a well-rounded fighter (granted he wasn't hanging with Garp 1v1 for an extended time like Aokiji but for his level well-rounded). It's easy to clown him after getting slammed and insulted by Garp but he shifted the battle for Aokiji who capitalized in the end on Garp's reduced stamina. For the third strongest Blackbeard Pirate, he isn't too bad.
 
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