This is a very good point, but Oda went out of his way to say that Kaido is unkillable
Oda also went out of his way to say that all kind of weapons broke trying to pierce through him yet you simply need an ability that has been spammed throughout Wano and has been shown by quite a good amount of characters.
So how strong is zoro when 4 scabbards sulong inu denjiro doji and kinemon combined couldnt open the scar ?
It depends on the context in which Zoro opens the scar, what attack he uses or to what extent he'd only need to excel in attack power, for example, but I'd put him around YC1+ by the end of Wano (using concepts popular among here, although I'm not the biggest fan of them).
How strong do you think I think Zoro is?
It seems you are mistaking me for some one else. You seem to know how strong i think Zoro is. Tell me then.
And no, this is happens to Zoro more than the rest of the strawhats. it was literally a meme at one point that Oda likes nerfing Zoro pre time skip when he fights his final opponet and its supposedly a complaint for Zoro specifically that he dominates too much post time skip.
If this was universal then neither the meme nor the complaints would be spcific to Zoro
I don't know how strong you think Zoro is. Personally I have him around YC1 right now (or a bit under that with progress during his fight) because I think he will face and defeat King as his main versus this arc.
Sanji defeated Arlong's number 2 after being beaten up underwater because he tried to save Luffy, was defeated by Kalifa before taking Jabra down, had to protect Nami while facing Absalom..., for example (not trying to raise a ZvsS debate here). I highly doubt there's such thing as "Oda nerfing Zoro pre-timeskip because he's too strong" as "Oda doing what he likes to do in order to enrich the events", to be honest.
Then the obvious question would be is "" WHo is his benchmark and how strong is he"
See, Zoro is a very uque character in this regard as we know for a fact how strong he should be EOS. Even Luffy is just vaguely "pirate king level" EOS and we don't actually know how strong that is. So everytime you scale Zoro, it must make sense according to that benchmark. If you are in the crowd of, Shanks is a haki man and Fujitora and Big mom aren't pure swordsmen so the real WSS is SHiryu (even though he also has a df) then its clear. Zoro's final form is around YC1-admiral level. And so from there we start Scaling backwards.
It goes on and On. you can;t scale Zoro properly without having an idea in your mind of how strong the current WSS is.
"Pirate King level" is clearly above anything we'd put in the top tier, not really that vague. The moment Oda drew Roger and Whitebeard clashing without even touching should have been the final nail in the coffin.
I believe Zoro and Sanji will be top tiers by end of series minimum, both under the tier belonging to their captain, and I don't really need Mihawk's level to establish so, only Luffy's.