When Sanji had just joined the crew and Zoro was on the verge of death, yes.
It is for you to substantiate why this qualification matters. In fact, you are welcome to start substantiating any of the claims you've made thus far.
One occurrrence doesn't constitute a pattern. If you want to favor that over the now very established formula that has been a thing for 20 years, be my guest.
Like this bullshit.
Setting aside you asserted Zoro fought the #2, without qualification for strength, as a matter of "narrative logic" dating to the beginning of One Piece:
King, a swordsman and Kaido's #2, being Sanji's matchup on the basis of him being able to fly or use fire, never made sense. I'm talking about narrative logic based on Oda's way of doing things since pretty much the beginning of One Piece.
Sanji has clashed with, fought and defeated opponents equal or higher in both strength and station to Zoro's on more than one occasion since the beginning of One Piece, dating all the way back to their first arc together as Strawhats in Arlong Park.
As recently as Egghead, Sanji was the only one of the Wings to face Kizaru, the #2 authority present behind the Elders.
But anyone who's not utterly biased can see it's intellectually dishonest. You're grasping at straws and forcing an imaginary narrative.
You are projecting like a mfer.
The only times Zoro doesn't fight the right-hand man is when the second strongest opponent isn't the right-hand man, but he always fights the second strongest opponent regardless, the #2 either in terms of both rank and strength or just in terms of strength.
Except, as established, he doesn't.
I believe you're dumb enough to not have picked up on the obvious.
In addition to being the only one that could move using Tekkai, Jabra was the more experienced DF user with a Zoan better suited to combat and possed a custom, wolf-themed Rankyaku. Two piece though.
Not only he was weaker than Ryuma, but he wasn't even taken down by Sanji. Nami took him down.
Sanji knocked his ass out and he woke up 5 chapters later to kidnap Nami during Oars' rampage, against who his performance outshined Zoro's despite his insane nerf.
Again, your asserted Zoro's opponents have been the #2 - without qualification of strength - since the beginning of One Piece, and this is obviously untrue.
King, a swordsman and Kaido's #2, being Sanji's matchup on the basis of him being able to fly or use fire, never made sense. I'm talking about narrative logic based on Oda's way of doing things since pretty much the beginning of One Piece.
The strongest two on Thriller Bark were Oars and Moria btw.
You can word it however it pleases you and talk about how close they were as much as you want, it really makes no difference. King was both the RHM and factually the second strongest, so Zoro's opponent. It's not more complicated than that.
You keep projecting while substantiating none of your claims. I'm not convinced you understand what makes something fact.
The
fact you've not actually responded to any of the counter arguments or evidence makes it clear you know you've got no leg to stand on, but you're too much of an insecure runt to admit you've lost the argument.
The only time when it was reasonable to think King would be Sanji's opponent, was before the start of Wano. Because back then, we didn't know whether Kaido had an even stronger underling that would serve as the Ace or Joker of his crew, the Shogun could easily have been an extremely strong samurai holding that position. And we thought Queen would likely be a woman. But once characters were introduced, there was no doubt left.
It was reasonable up to any point upto 1022.
Your position is rooted in nothing but hindsight bias.
How does the fact Sanji later incorporated one of their moves to his style means he fights like them?
You're the only one conflating alike with exactly the same. Nobody fights exactly the same as their opponents in One Piece, and Sanji has fought armed and unarmed opponents, so King wouldn't have been unprecedented, but you ignored this like everything else debunking your bullshit.
Does Luffy fight like them because he learned to use Soru?
He fought alike for a time, but not long. He doesn't need G2 to achieve Soru like speeds and G2 is more of a low level measure.
Sanji couldn't even use Sky Walk when he fought Jabra, so that doesn't help your point.
Nice red herring.
They were alike on the basis of being on being unarmed martial artists with extensive repertoires of kicking techniques. That Sanji didn't rip off Moon Step to develop Sky Walk until the time skip is changes nothing. There was ample likeness prior.
You'e dishonestly twisting your own frail logic – which is Sanji supposedly fighting opponents who fight like him when he does face them – to score points (yet still missing the mark).
Every accusation is just a confession.
You're blatantly trying to distract from the reality you have nothing to substantiate your own arguments or attacks on mine. You're a pedantic piece of shit trying to escape the fact you keep getting dunked on.
Fuck outta here.
