Because Jimbei beats off BM cognac with a sword with his bare hands. Shanks acoc vanshot Kid. Auden to acoc (weaker than Zoro at that time) withstood Roger's acoc punch quite easily.
1.) Big Mom used more force and straight cut through Jinbe's special hardening + shark skin.
2.) Again, Shanks' ACoC is on a completely different level. Do you think Big Mom never used ACoC on Law and Kidd? We had fodders commenting how CoC kept being unleashed during their battle.
3.) So a character weaker than Kidd actually managed to tank an ACoC hit from Roger's SWORD. Dude, this actually disproves your assertion lol.
Let's compare. Kaido destroys the damned Punk with a slash, Zoro repels kaido's slash with one sword. The kid unexpectedly attacks with a nominal attack of the Apu and takes damage himself by breaking up with the apu in a draw. Zoro vanshot Apu noname blow with one sword. Zoro stops Hakai from two yonko for a while and puts Kaido scar in a one-on-one skirmish (top 2 wound). Kid catches a shot from Shanks. Zoro awakens ACOC+top ryoo by defeating YC1. The kid somehow threw the BM off the island.
Buddy, all of those feats are with his sword, you realise that?
Kaido cut Damned Punk because it is metal junk at the end. What makes it dangerous is the fact that Kidd can add his magnetic force on them. Reason why Big Mom was gravely injured from some steel pipes because they had Kidd's magnetic power.
Again, Zoro used his Ittoryu style on Apoo.
Again, Zoro used Barrier Haki on his swords to block Hakai. If he was barehanded, he wouldn't be left with 30 broken bones lol.
Dude, ASURA ZORO. This is barehanded Zoro. NO SWORDS. Just some irrelevant no sword style, without proper feats, to rely on against a guy who fucked up Big Mom on many occasions.
Once again, getting one shot by Shanks =/= losing to barehanded Zoro lmao. We know that a weaker character actually endured the same technique from someone stronger than Shanks. It seems Shanks put up far more strength into his Kamurasi than Roger ever did against Oden.
Exactly - ACoC against King and he also learned a whole new sword style which is KoH. All with swords.
But if one character has acoc + powerful ryoo + very strong physically, and the second has mediocre hacks, the winner is obvious.
It is not.
Zoro usually channels his physical attributes to his swords and that's his usual fighting style. If you take this away, Zoro basically loses a very huge amount of his general power. It's like saying Luffy can beat Kidd even if he just uses his head. It would make no sense as well.
Again, ACoC is no auto win.
What Zoro makes stronger than Kidd is the fact that his ACoC + swordsmanship makes him the superior fighter. If you take one away, the thing will look completely different.
Mate, it is not even clear if Zoro beats Queen without his swords...