Underestimation lowers your durability ?
Yeah, thing is Sanji himself emphasized the broken bone, that little injury could've been fatal by his own admission, not much to argue here :
Zoro vs Carrot isn't a comparable scenario at all. Sanji didn't get taken by surprise, Vergo beat him at his own fighting style head on, that's why it's such a huge L.
I give current Sanji his credit, he would flatten Vergo, but not in PH.
Understimation lowers your guard and can have a considerable cost in the actual battle/clash, simple as that, thats why Zoro got pierced like paper while fighting Killer without his "Punisher" after getting quickly distracted for a brief time.
Even a Gifter can hurt you if you are not aware. This panel you showed could be viewed in many different ways, like he wasn't 100% HP and he didn't realized it? He thought Vergo was easy to deal with at the start and wasn't worrying at all until he realized he made a mistake? And as i said, this logic doesn't apply to Sanji only, clearly.
Don't even come with this excuses, if Sanji was in Zoro's place against Carrot (supposing he can hit female), it would be this very same clown fiesta.
Carrot wasn't one of the main enemies of the arc like Vergo was back in PH, thats an even bigger deal.
"Sanji can't even beat Carrot lmao he struggled against her
![Kobeha :kobeha: :kobeha:](https://i.ibb.co/P6XbSwV/kobeha.png)
, Sanji is definitely Veteran level, he couldn't even beat Page One 100% confirmed
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Using this to absolutely confirm that "Vergo beat Sanji" is the same thing as saying Carrot completely outspeeds Zoro in every single way because of their brief clash. Its like saying Denjiro is on Zoro's level because they clashed equally, and Zoro looked at him respecting his strength until the start of the Onigashima raid. Again, despite if someone is ignoring the context (and all the possible adversities) as much as they want.
Until some time ago i used to see some people arguing that Daifuku pulling Sanji back with a named attack (doing no dmg) while Sanji was carrying Pudding in his arms means he wasn't a match for Daifuku by any means. What kind of logic is that? It feels like there are standards that only applies to some characters, Sanji gets bashed much more by everything he does than Zoro, it definitely doesn't matter if Zoro gets offscreened and is shown panting against Bettle-Gifter for some unknown reason.
And here is the answer, it's called:
Being used as a hypetool because these characters are strong enough to be used like that.