Break Week Opinion: Zoro should’ve fought a Samurai in a proper swords battle

#1
The Queen fight vs Sanji is simply a better written fight. Even the Jack fight apart from the off screening. Why?

Inurashi had a legitimate backstory with Jack.

Queen has a legitimate backstory with Sanji and Judge/MADS.

Zoro has nothing to do with King or his character apart them being the right hands of their crew. Now Oda is trying to force feed us King’s backstory to “help” beat him. It’s contrived af.

What do we get instead? Zoro being exposed for not being able to fly…Again. How many times must we go down this route?







Now his opponent doesn’t even consider himself a “swordsman”. If Orochi was going to be weak, and Denjiro going to betray him, then use someone else, like Orochi’s son.

Imagine having an evil badass Samurai, part of the Orochi clan, and his son, being >= YC1 level or whatever fighting in a PROPER swords duel with Zoro, and not just “What is the secret Lunarian ability?”.



Zoro should’ve fought the “Strongest Swordsman/Samurai of Wano”. It’s such a missed opportunity.
 
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#2
Honestly King is just being used to faciliate Zoro leveling up/unlocking a new ability. I see no other reason other than giving him that 1v1 that most other Straw Hats got. The headcanon in 2017 was that he was going to face off against Orochi but that mans turned out to be a blob, then Kyoshiro stepped up to play and that dude turned out to be a friend so with that there ain’t any Samurai left that would hold a candle to Zoro. It would’ve been dope if Zoro faced off against a competent Samurai but King ain’t that bad of a matchup.
 

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The Queen fight vs Sanji is simply a better written fight. Even the Jack fight apart from the off screening. Why?

Inurashi had a legitimate backstory with Jack.

Queen has a legitimate backstory with Sanji and Judge/MADS.

Zoro has nothing to do with King or his character apart them being the right hands of their crew. Now Oda is trying to force feed us King’s backstory to “help” beat him. It’s contrived af.

What do we get instead? Zoro being exposed for not being able to fly…Again. How many times must we go down this route?







Now his opponent doesn’t even consider himself a “swordsman”. If Orochi was going to be weak, and Denjiro going to betray him, then use someone else, like Orochi’s son.

Imagine having an evil badass Samurai, part of the Orochi clan, and his son, being >= YC1 level or whatever fighting in a PROPER swords duel with Zoro, and not just “What is the secret Lunarian ability?”.



Zoro should’ve fought the “Strongest Swordsman/Samurai of Wano”. It’s such a missed opportunity.
Zoro had nothing to do with Mr.1, apart of being right hand of Crocodile, same for Pica.
I agree with you about him fighting a Samurai, but King is showing a decent fighting style, probably the best among the Beast Pirates.

Sanji x Queen suffer the opposite problem. They have a"backstory" but the choreography is boring, I love Queen gags but he's basically a massive punch bag for Sanji. Base Who's Who or a CP0 dude could be a lot better.
 
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Zoro had nothing to do with Mr.1, apart of being right hand of Crocodile, same for Pica.
I agree with you about him fighting a Samurai, but King is showing a decent fighting style, probably the best among the Beast Pirates.

Sanji x Queen suffer the opposite problem. They have a"backstory" but the choreography is boring, I love Queen gags but he's basically a massive punch bag for Sanji. Base Who's Who or a CP0 dude could be a lot better.
Yeah, but this is Wano, the land of his ancestors. This was the time for the "backstory". With all the hype about Samurais, to not get a Zoro vs. Strongest Samurai battle is such a massive waste.

 
#15
Let’s stop the cap. Sanji vs queen currently is trash. The choreography is trash. This just seems like a hate thread because you said king is pica 2.0
Has your brain rattled around your skull too much? How is Sanji turning evil "trash"? That's the best plotline in Wano right now.



Zoro vs. Sanji will be exciting more exciting than King vs. Zoro. It'll basically be like Goku vs. Majin Vegeta.

This just seems like a hate thread because you said king is pica 2.0
You realize people were literally saying King looks like Pica in his silhouette. It's Pica 2.0. in that it's not about pure swordsmanship but it's about "figuring out a secret" about his power, like Zoro tried to figure out Pica's "real body secret".
 
#17
Has your brain rattled around your skull too much? How is Sanji turning evil "trash"? That's the best plotline in Wano right now.



Zoro vs. Sanji will be exciting more exciting than King vs. Zoro. It'll basically be like Goku vs. Majin Vegeta.



You realize people were literally saying King looks like Pica in his silhouette. It's Pica 2.0. in that it's not about pure swordsmanship but it's about "figuring out a secret" about his power, like Zoro tried to figure out Pica's "real body secret".
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#19
Has your brain rattled around your skull too much? How is Sanji turning evil "trash"? That's the best plotline in Wano right now.



Zoro vs. Sanji will be exciting more exciting than King vs. Zoro. It'll basically be like Goku vs. Majin Vegeta.



You realize people were literally saying King looks like Pica in his silhouette. It's Pica 2.0. in that it's not about pure swordsmanship but it's about "figuring out a secret" about his power, like Zoro tried to figure out Pica's "real body secret".
You were saying it’s pica in the sense of king is trash and it will be a mid diff.

Also I’m talking the fight itself. Not sanjis character development. The fight itself is laser beam dodge kick
 
#20
You were saying it’s pica in the sense of king is trash and it will be a mid diff.
This fight will end the second Zoro figures the "secret".

Also I’m talking the fight itself. Not sanjis character development. The fight itself is laser beam dodge kick
Yeah, because we haven't seen the climax. It's just the buildup. Sanji having to turn into a "machine" to beat Queen.
 
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