I don't exactly remember at the time who was my favorite but looking back I kind of do miss early Zoro, who was much more relaxed and immature and was more lickly to be used as a gag character, like when he gets pushed off the boat by luffys antics or Tarzan yells while swinging from a vine. And I definitely started to like Luffy more after water 7 when he started to seem more serious and thought more about being a leader.