User blog comment:Knight.angelx/Can Zoro ever surpass luffy?/@comment-79.107.221.68-20100330135530

to become the pirate king,Luffy needs to find the one piece just like Roger,and not to defeat everyone,he could not fight against Shanks for example,both because they are friends and Shanks is much stronger than him.Zorro needs to surpass Mihawk,quite difficult as we can see Mihawk can fight against a yonkou as equal.in the series there are two battles between Luffy and Zorro,the result of the first was draw until Nami interrupted,the result of the second was probably Zoro's victory.So yes Zorro is equal to Luffy.