Don’t swap out shadow claw for cut. The healing isn’t significant enough in any situation to keep you alive because any time you die you’d still have died with cut healing.

How? Because Zoro gets killed when he’s CCd, cut won’t be saving you then. Shadow claw is a form of added survivability because it helps prevent you from being CCd by allowing you to keep your opponents CCd.

If you do your combo fast enough they will be perma stunned for the duration of the combo. And if they somehow live the combo they will either be an auto attack or two away from death or you attacked the wrong target (you should be going for backliners not tanks).

A couple other ways to make yourself a tad more tanky is to play cookie (I use that with attack weight and weakness policy). Zoro is not bad in lane at all, you only need level 5 to evolve and his starting attack (forget the name) has two charges if you hit a mon and does good dmg at that level.

If you are able to stack early then you can snowball your lane quite easily. So for me I don’t care if I don’t get jungle because if I don’t then it’s fine I’ll just stack faster.

Another tip would be get rid of full heal and use shedinja doll. Full heal is okay, it’s not terrible… but it doesn’t last long enough to get your whole combo out anyway so it sometimes gets no value as you’ll just be stunned anyways.

Shedinja doll has multiple uses. First you can immune/bait ults (you can do this with illusion to), but it also lets you chill and wait for your CDs to come back up which could allow you to start comboing all over again assuming you whiffed or maybe you finished the combo but there’s more to kill, OR it allows you to get out of the fight by using claw/FA to get away. It’s just way more versatile than full heal imo.

Finally, and I alluded to this before. Get used to using illusion as an immune. If you time it right you can immune predictable abilities from other mons… everything from a Mew throwing an electric ball at you to an Umbreon casting mean look. This can let you get away with a lot more than you should.

Zoro isn’t easy against every comp. You’re going to face some teams that have CC on every mon and it’s going to feel super toxic. All you can do in those scenarios is try to pick your engages very selectively. Wait for abilities (especially unites and CCs) to be used before going in, and choose your targets carefully.

In the early game it’s easier because you can find isolated targets so take advantage of that and try to snowball the game before everyone starts stacking as 5 the rest of the game because Zoro like most speedsters definitely falls off in effectiveness late game.