Despite getting cheapshotted by Zoro while in a duel with Drake, Apoo recovered quickly afterwards. Poor Apoo didn't think Drake would capitalize on it to finish him though, essentially losing due to the tagteam effort
But in the end, it's a good way for him to lose, showing reasonable close range skills to match up to hybrid Drake in close combat, but losing due to outside interference after a while, to show he has decent defensive close stats, while taking into consideration his sound base range fruit
On the other hand, i thought Jinbei would fight a wounded Jack, but it seems he'd face the other fishman instead
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Not that it matters. Chapter 1000 - Ace vs Kaido incoming