if zoro was taking on more serious swordmen until he gets to mihawk like idk, kyros, vista, king, cracker, smoothie. but nope, he is taking on monet and hyozo to get ready to challenge mihawk lol.
The path to WSS :
Cabbaji, Mr 1 (no haki) ; That Enel fighter; Kaku; FodderFishman swordsman; Pica; Kamazou (Vet)...
Path to PK :
Crocodile; Enel; Blueno; Lucci ; Hody; Ceasar; Chinjao; Doffy; Cracker; Katakuri (top high tier) ...
Just Crocodule > alone is stronger than combine force of Zoro pre ts opponents. Katakuri alone is stronger than every zoro opponents combined.
We are 80% done in the story... and people wanna make believe being WSS is hard as even being Admiral/Emperor.
When luffy will be fighting top tiers and winning
Zoro is fighting high tiers...
This is why it is dumb to believe Zoro growth rate amd power is/will be close to luffy.
Luffy remains 2x above Zoro, he always fight opponents 2x/3x stronger than those zoro fights.
This is why Mihawk is 2x/1.5x weaker than Kaido, BM, Akainu and Teach : These 4 are luffy main top tier fights he will fight,
So they cant be below Zoro "probable " Top tier opponents: Fuji (,he is a tier below Akainu) and Mihawk (a tier or 2 tiers below the 3 emperors and FA)
Teach>>>>Shiryu (that zoro will fight extreme diff)
Kaido/BM >>>Katakuri>=*King>>*Kyoushiro : *people zoro may fight extreme diff this arc.