User blog comment:Fliu/Thoughts on the Reverie Arc and Expectations for the Wano Arc/@comment-29391896-20180619123329/@comment-24850639-20180625160204

Sneak attacks are by definition less impressive. It's hitting someone who isn't prepared to fight. Are we seriously putting Axe Hand Morgan on Zoro's list of accomplishments? Really? Do people call Helmeppo a win for Luffy?

Saying Bobbin would've got wrecked regardless only further discounts this as a "glorious" win for Sanji. Sanji's attacks on Bobbin and Oven literaly only pissed them off. So not only were they cheap attacks, they didn't even do their job. The sneak attack on Raisin is really the only one you can count in that regard. Sanji's speed was impressive, I can admit that, but Oven was by no one means out of commission after that exchange.

Feel free to explain WHY Sanji didn't get a serious fight, in an arc that was centered on him from start to finish? Sure you can argue that the Straw Hats had another goal in the poneglyphs, but the main mission of this arc was for the Straw Hats to retrieve their cook. This was the perfect platform for Sanji to display some impressive strength, which fans have been clamoring for since the timeskip. You can try to justify it by Sanji's opponents being from a  Yonko crew all you like, but it's too late in the story for a Yonko crew's power level to be something distant and out of reach. It's time for the Straw Hats to be capable of taking out their big names, considering most of the time they are strolling into these places with a crew of 10 or less.