I'm not going to blame people too much for misreading that part and thinking Kaido just did his usual tank job.
I blame Oda who did a poor job illustrating that whole sequence because he was rushing to get to the Luffy's part. Oda should have given Ashura at least even 2 more pages and it'd have been much better.
Oda wanted to reveal Ashura(after 500 chapters), Kaido attacking, Zoro parrying then countering him all in 1 double spread. No wonder the execution looked messy and some people missed certain things. I myself missed the part where Kaido attacked Ashura Zoro and the latter parrying the first time. I caught that bit later.
This is all on Oda, he couldn't even go a single chapter of Rooftop without Luffy dominating it and had to rush through everyone else so he could quickly get back to him.
I blame Oda who did a poor job illustrating that whole sequence because he was rushing to get to the Luffy's part. Oda should have given Ashura at least even 2 more pages and it'd have been much better.
Oda wanted to reveal Ashura(after 500 chapters), Kaido attacking, Zoro parrying then countering him all in 1 double spread. No wonder the execution looked messy and some people missed certain things. I myself missed the part where Kaido attacked Ashura Zoro and the latter parrying the first time. I caught that bit later.
This is all on Oda, he couldn't even go a single chapter of Rooftop without Luffy dominating it and had to rush through everyone else so he could quickly get back to him.