Lol fraud roger had no competition in becoming the PK and had oden gift wraped to him otherwise he would never become PK
PK is a consolidation prize.
You can even call it by Roger's action after finalizing the sail. Oden didn't gift him shit, if not for Oden he would find another fraud to read poneglyphs perhaps some bitch from Ohara.
Roger and Rocks were rivals. Roger dueling with Garp and Whitebeard was him trying to make up for lack of challenge that Rocks brought to the table for him.
Kaido himself holds Roger in the highest regard, ofc u may say he never called him above himself but cmon. The statement about Haki is clear what Kaido meant.
Kaido stopped developing to me, I was genuinely surprised when I saw that quick King flashback, Kaido fucking smiling from ear to ear, feeling passion and shit.
We need context on what broke him. Kaido is a bit like Doffy to me but obviously Kaido peaked almost at the top of the world whereas Doffy way lower.
I see this comparison because they had dreams beyond simple ruling a country or shit but yet they had to stop at this.
At first I thought it has something to do with Rocks beating the living shit out of him but Kaido meeting King happens after the God's Valley incident. We need more insight.
No one came close to Roger. Whitebeard agenda is bullshit. I love WB but he was afraid of Kaido.