smh. I don't think y'all understand how strong YC1s are. Katakuri fodderized Ichiji and was able to take on Capone and Jinbe at the same time.
He was literally low diffing Luffy in their first fight. The only reason why Luffy beat katakuri was because katakuri wanted to lose the fight. He was sick and tired of being the perfect brother and hiding his true self from his family, so he wanted Luffy to defeat him because in defeating him, Luffy would also defeat the lie that katakuri was living.
Its literally the reason why katakuri stomped Luffy, even after Luffy awakened future sight, and then instead of going for the kill, chose instead to cheer on luffy and allowed him to go snakeman, when he had shown before that he was perfectly capable of preventing luffy from using Gear 4th.
While katakuri was trying to kill Luffy in round 1 of the fight, in round 2, things changed. Because Luffy chose to come back and face kata when he had absolutely no reason to do so, Luffy inspired something in katakuri. Think back to what Mihawk said about Luffy in marineford.
Katakuri lived a fake life, pretending that he was perfect. To him, falling on his back was the greatest source of shame. Luffy ran away and got the shit kicked out of him multiple times, and after all that, was still able to come back to face kata. Its because of this, kata chose to test Luffy's will in the 2nd round, instead of killing him.
This is why kata chose to beat luffy to the ground multiple times, rather than just using flowing mochi to trap him(like he did in round 1), and then killing him with mogura.
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anyways, I bring this up because Sanji was portrayed to be on par with daifuku in WCI. He got low diffed by doffy in dressrosa. And even in wano kuni, he got worse portrayal than Drake's allosaurus form.
To suggest that Sanji could beat a fully serious YC1 is absolutely ridiculous, as from feats, its debatable if he could even beat dressrosa Luffy.
Sanji 1v1ing king would mean that he would have to be stronger than post-WCI Luffy, which is fucking absurd.
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For Zoro, its debatable if he could beat king. However, if he did, I don't think anyone would have any issues with it. Zoro was always portrayed to be close in strength to Luffy.
in wano, he got parallel power ups with luffy. With Luffy getting Rayleigh's CoA and Zoro mastering Oden's sword. Rayleigh being Roger's first mate and Oden being whitebeard's.
Zoro also took out a supernova without using santoryu ougi or asura and that was pre-enma.