Healthy Zoro vs Don Krieg

[SSJ2]

Assume Zoro never fought Mihawk and challenged Don Krieg. Who wins?

 

[Pocket-God]

Honestly I get the feeling Zoro could've stomped Krieg, that might be why Oda had him get rekt by Mihawk.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Depends whether or not he made any gains from the battle in Syrup Village. During the battle against Kuro, Zoro seemed to practically get blitzed by Kuro, whereas Luffy was able to quickly catch up with him. That said, there ought to be a significant gap between the two at that time, so Zoro likely doesn't have what it takes to get past Krieg's defences like Luffy could without making gains to reach Luffy's level.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Zoro looked really unfazed when he saw Kuro, even when Kuro did things. Looked like Zoro thought he could own Kuro any time he wanted to. In-fact he looked more worried about Jango, l0l.

 

[Notaka]

Tough call. Luffy didn't really struggle in East Blue tbh, and Zoro was shown to be his equal in whiskey peak

I'd give it to Zoro. He could be able of cutting down Krieg's spear and armor

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Zoro was shown to be his equal in whiskey peak

Zoro did receive far more severe injuries in his East Blue battles than Luffy did though and as he stated himself in Enies Lobby, the Straw Hats got stronger through overcoming death several times on the islands they visited.

 

[Notaka]

Zoro was shown to be his equal in whiskey peak

Zoro did receive far more severe injuries in his East Blue battles than Luffy did though and as he stated himself in Enies Lobby, the Straw Hats got stronger through overcoming death several times on the islands they visited.

That's true but this makes me think Zoro is a saiyan

There's also scenes of Zoro training so it could very well be that he managed to reach Luffy's strength by the time whiskey peak happened. Still, Didn't Arlong think that Zoro was a huge threat, after he saw his wound? Zoro's durability is insane

So even if he didn't have enough strength, Zoro could win via battle of attrition. Maybe.

 

[Warmmedown]

Kuro's speed really has nothing to do with this, since Don has nowhere near that level of speed

 

[Fantastische Hure]

Don Krieg is also lower than Kuro.

 

[SSJ2]

Zoro was shown to be his equal in whiskey peak

Zoro did receive far more severe injuries in his East Blue battles than Luffy did though and as he stated himself in Enies Lobby, the Straw Hats got stronger through overcoming death several times on the islands they visited.

Is that really fair tho? He was critically wounded by the strongest swordsman alive.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Kuro's speed really has nothing to do with this, since Don has nowhere near that level of speed

It's more to act as a comparison between Luffy and Zoro at the time rather than Krieg.

Is that really fair tho? He was critically wounded by the strongest swordsman alive.

Hence why the boost he'd gain from overcoming death should've been quite great.

 

[Big Ank]

I echo CC's opinion.

 

[Warmmedown]

Luffy doing better vs Kuro really only shows that Luffy was better than Zoro at dealing with a fast opponent, due to better reaction times, better anticipation, better vision or just being faster himself. With Don Krieg speed was never near to being a limiting factor for Luffy, so I doubt it would be for Zoro. The main limiting factors for Luffy were Krieg's armour, Luffy not being able to swim and to a lesser extent Krieg having some decent firepower. Zoro's strength and durability is what's relevent here and we learned next to nothing about those things against Kuro. Unless anyone here thinks Zoro could actually be too slow to deal with Krieg.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Luffy doing better vs Kuro really only shows that Luffy was better than Zoro at dealing with a fast opponent, due to better reaction times, better anticipation, better vision or just being faster himself.

That would still suggest a significant gap between them when in most instances when they were equal, it was in both power and speed.

The main limiting factors for Luffy were Krieg's armour, Luffy not being able to swim and to a lesser extent Krieg having some decent firepower.

Aside from swimming not being much of a factor, Zoro would still struggle with these to the same extent Luffy did. Also, without help, Luffy would've been killed by Krieg's MH5, so Krieg can definitely win if he gets the chance to use it

Zoro's strength and durability is what's relevent here and we learned next to nothing about those things against Kuro.

We learnt he had some difficulty against an amped up Buchi, who Kuro treated as the same non-threat to him that he was prior to the hypnotism.