User blog comment:Ghmorello/Chapter 919: Gotta Get Back! Back To The Past!/@comment-24850639-20180928170343/@comment-24850639-20181001180532

Man, I don't even know what to address first.

RE: Zoro vs. Jack - There was never any real logic to the unjustified hype around this potential clash, other than the fact that the two of them are swordsmen. This dates all the way back to the Zou Arc, when it was assumed that due to Jack's introduction, that the arc would culminate with some kind of final battle against him. Why people assumed it would be Zoro who fought him and not Luffy at the time I can't tell you, but needless to say the confirmation of Jack's presence in Wano has re-ignited this speculation. To be fair - that speculation has more credence now than it did back in Zou, but I don't think much. The people of Okobore are going to give Jack the name "Luffytaro" because he told them to, not "Zorojuro". Zoro does need to prove himself to be Yonko Commander level AT LEAST by the end of this arc, so I can give you that, but it doesn't need to be Jack that he proves this with.

RE: Jacks strength - I saw a rather dangerous misconception here, which is that Jack fought the Mink in sulong form. That is quite erroneous, as InuArashi heavily implied that the battle would have had a much different outcome had they shown him their "trump card". Jack also didn't fight all the mink at once - he fought the Muskateers, and then the Guardians in alternating order every 12 hours. Furthermore, he wasn't directly fighting all them, he really only fought Inu and Neko for the most part. His fodder fought everyone else -  the Mink also revealed that Jack had a seemingly endless supply of subordinates. I encourage you go read those chapters again. Jack is pretty damn strong, but claiming he'd curbstomp Zoro is preposterous when you haven't REALLY seen Zoro cut loose. Even if he is currently stronger, Zoro would still give that dude quite a run for his money.

RE: Hawkins vs. Zoro - LOL @ causing Zoro to need medical attention. Zoro survived a slash from Mihawk several arcs before the Straw Hats ever got a doctor, and people are losing their minds over some damn nails? Zoro was completely fine after that clash, and only accepted the medical help because Tsuru and Kiku didn't necessarily offer a choice in the matter. Feel free to point out these "injuries" next time we see Zoro - a day hasn't even passed yet, so he should undoubtedly still have them if they were that bad, no? Lets not forget that he had someone behind him so he couldn't just outright dodge them, and also had them shot at him from point blank range, yet still managed to deflect most of them. He then immediately disposes of Hawkins pursuit attempts with ONE ATTACK. Not saying Hawkins probably isn't strong, but people need to chill with giving him a W over Zoro in that situation.

RE: Luffy vs. Cracker & Katakuri - Please explain to me what part of Luffy's final strategy to beat Cracker required Nami's assistance. Because from what I saw, it certainly looks like Luffy took note of Cracker's strategy to try to hide among his biscuit soldiers and sneak in a strike, and used it against him. He waited for him to try this shit again, used the Gear 4 version of Gomu Gomu no Fuusen, and sent him flying straight through his busoshoku haki-imbued biscuit soldiers for devastating pain. Nami's involvement amounted to Luffy having a food source, nothing more. Cracker could produce an unlimited amount of soldiers, so Nami could only slow him down so much. Luffy also didn't need to eat just biscuit soldiers to get full, the Seducing Woods was shown to have at least Tea and juice to fill his belly for the purposes of that attack.

Vs. Katakuri, please explain to me in what way Luffy getting hit with that arrow impeded his battle efforts. Please explain to me in what way Katakuri stabbing himself impeded his battle efforts. Neither of the combatants showed any legitimate proof of slowing down in that fight after these occurences, and I certainly challenge you to prove me wrong. Luffy only continued to get more impressive, and Katakuri continued to curbstomp him just as easily. By the end of the fight you could barely even notice the stab wounds, if at all. I have my own problems with that fight, several in fact, but in the grand scope of the entire fight, the damage received from that scene was negligible.