So you also believe Zoro will fight King?
lol seriously. We're in a small minority man. I'm going to love it when everyone aside from the minority is proven wrong.
Tbh, I just try and look at patterns. Like, I totally get where a huge chunk of the Zoro fanbase is coming from. You have Zoro with Luffy on the roof, its an irrefutable fact now that he's there because Oda wants him to be. And I definitely get all the strong feelings that are coming from that about Zoro, but I think there's also a reality check to what truly
might happen in the next 5/10/15 chapters: That is that Luffy is normally deemed and warranted his own personal victory.
More than any character in this story, and rightfully so, Oda maintains the focus of the main character to satisfy his own battles and achievements. This isn't like the oars battle because they didn't defeat oars to achieve a signficant milestone, Oda drew the fight with Oars to show what the strawhat crew could do before he destroyed them for 2 years.
Luffy by the end of the arc is either going to achieve Yonko status or entirely demolish the definition of what it means to be a Yonko. Unfortunately, this really has nothing to do with Zoro and his goals.
And here's the thing, I totally get why he's on the roof, but imo Oda has him there to draw the direct Oden parallel with Enma and that's honestly it. Once Kaido acknowledges his feat, he's not needed anymore to fight Kaido
Whether or not that turns into Zoro vs King is irrelevant, I just don't see Zoro overtaking or overshadowing the bulk of a predetermined match between Luffy and Kaido. Its been set up since Punk Hazard. This was a discussion with Law, not with Zoro.
And honestly I think the biggest tell is just how "perfect" the matchups seem to be lining up. 6 strawhats are currently fighting 5 of 6 Tobi Roppo. Not one Supernova, scabbard or side character is taking those fights. They are entirely Strawhats monopolized. Funny enough Chopper and Drake are together as the last non-monsrer trio strawhat dealing with a virus that makes you attack your allies with the last (former) Tobi Roppo, but i wont get too deep into that theory.
Finally you have not only Luffy, Zoro and Sanji, but Yamato available for subsequent fights against Kaido, King, Queen and Jack. It almost fits too perfectly with Luffys crew, which funny enough actually has me a bit skeptical anyhow. The pure fact that the Strawhats have essentially taken over nearly every beast pirate fight, all while Marco is seemingly being used to simply hold off two calamities, is pretty telling to me that those calamities are geared towards Strawhat battles.
People here question what Marco would do if he doesn't fight King, because technically the new generation is supposed to take out the old. However, if people actually read 1003, it also mentions the new generation (which only showed Luffys crew and Yamato funny enough) has to defeat the Executives (i.e. Calamities and Tobi Roppo) in order to win. So really, Marco being in either location is contradictory to what Oda is setting up.
If you believe these things, it becomes a bit easier to understand why Zoro vs King is possible. People here also like to confuse me saying this as 100% fact for some reason too. I've only said it's possible and it brings the guard dogs out smh
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Are you hoping for it because you want Zoro to fight a strong swordsman or because he's #2 for the Beast Pirates?
It's sort of both. As a Zoro fan, i just want him to receive the same growth merits as Luffy has. "Yonko" really hasn't ever been Zoro's goal, outside of him stating he wants to "cut Kaido" this arc (which was never brought up prior). Its not like Luffy and him are going to double team Blackbeard or Shanks, this is why Shiryu and Mihawk exist (allegedy). This is why I think King is here too.
Only time will tell at this point. We have to see how the rooftop fight plays out before making any more guesses.