Lol, luffy deserves all his victories.
Only one that wasn't 100% was vs katakuri.
Luffy dogwalks all of zoro opponents, zoro gets killed by luffy opponents.
It has been like this ever since as early as nami introduction arc where zoro lost to BUGGY.
Why does this schizo fandom can't accept that zoro will never be on par, let alone as strong as luffy?
He is neither killua nor sasuke, he doesnt have the same plot importance as those 2 aforementioned ones and was never portrayed as such.
King isn't as strong as kaido, katakuri isnt as strong as big mom, beckman isnt as strong as shanks, aokiji/shiryu isnt as strong as teach, ace/oden/marco werent as strong as whitebeard, whitebeard wasnt as strong as xebec, rayleigh wasn't as strong as roger.
Number 2 are NEVER as strong as their captains hence why they are number TWO, whats so hard to understand about it???
You must be reading Two Piece my man lmao. His victory over Doflamingo was not 1v1, his victory over Cracker was not 1v1, his victory over Katakuri was laughable, his victory over Kaido required multiple rounds
after Kaido survived one of the longest gauntlets we've seen in the manga.
Zoro bodied Luffy's opponent before Luffy did with Hody lmfaoo, and without plot armour Luffy's opponents dogwalk Luffy too 😂 Terrible argument
Idk why you're bringing up pre-TS as if Zoro wasn't canonically equal to Luffy on Whiskey Peak and as if Zoro didn't scare the living shit out of Luffy's opponent Arlong.
Zoro's technically had stronger opponents than Luffy's in arcs too, he just didn't win. Mihawk > Krieg, Kuma > Moriah. Thus, Zoro must've been stronger than Luffy in these arcs because his opponents were stronger - your logic.
If, after 1086 chapters, you still can't see that Oda treats Zoro
better than Luffy when it comes to battle then idk what to tell you. Oda
always makes sure Zoro looks good because he's the token 'badass' of One Piece. Thus, common sense dictates that he will usually look good in comparison to Luffy, especially if they're fighting side by side. On the other hand, Oda's willing to make Luffy look fucking terrible lool.
Kuzan
is as strong as Teach, that was an awful example. Kuzan was willing to fight Teach and his whole crew lool, Teach ran from the man who Kuzan fought evenly for 10 days. Furthermore, your examples are awful because this is not EoS. Every character bar Teach that you mentioned has reached their prime - they're no longer growing in strength. Thus, if you were arguing EoS Luffy > EoS Zoro when their power levels are static, then you could use them as valid arguments.
But you're not; you're saying they'll never at
any point ever be close which is utterly baseless and has zero precedent because they've objectively been very close before at multiple points in the manga. Luffy and Zoro are still growing in strength and grow at different rates. Sometimes one is stronger, other times the other is stronger. It's not fixed - their power levels are dynamic depending on when they get their power-ups so at any point in an arc they could be super close or super far from each other. For some reason this bothers insecure Luffy stans who always revert back to "muh no.2 can't be close to muh no.1!11!!" lmao.
Funnily enough the same applies to Sanji here as well - for a chapter, IJ Sanji was actually quite close to RT Zoro. It's just so happened that in the following chapter Zoro grew significantly stronger.