Kid and Killer mostly seem to exist to show Luffy and Zoro that they were right to train for two years instead of going to the New World directly. Kid’s been crippled and scarred, Killer’s right arm is some horrible burn tissue and he’s been force fed a useless DF.
Having said that, it would be very unlike Oda to put all this time into making Kid stand out from the original Supernovas- which he unquestionably does- without giving him some sort of payoff. It won’t be the payoff people thought he would get in Saobody, where it seemed that Kid could be a genuine rival and contender as PK.
But he will do something against Kaido, although ultimately being quite significantly overshadowed by Luffy. I would be very, very surprised if at the end of Wano we have a Dressrosa situation where Luffy and Kid are given the same bounty and held to be the joint reason Kaido was defeated.
Having said that, it would be very unlike Oda to put all this time into making Kid stand out from the original Supernovas- which he unquestionably does- without giving him some sort of payoff. It won’t be the payoff people thought he would get in Saobody, where it seemed that Kid could be a genuine rival and contender as PK.
But he will do something against Kaido, although ultimately being quite significantly overshadowed by Luffy. I would be very, very surprised if at the end of Wano we have a Dressrosa situation where Luffy and Kid are given the same bounty and held to be the joint reason Kaido was defeated.
At this point do you think Kid will have a higher bounty than Zoro post Wano? Since the Straw Hats will invariably be considered a proper Emperor crew after Wano, and Kid will still just be an independent captain...or seen as a subordinate to Luffy like Bege's crew. I find it unlikely that Law and Kid will have comparable bounties to Luffy after the arc since their status as captains is so wildly different now.