Character Discussion Shanks gave his arm to the Lord of the Coast because his Haki could have hurt Luffy

[CoC: Color of Clowns]

Nothing has driven me more mad in this series when it comes to power-scaling than this dude eating Shank's arm:

Today I came up with the only satisfactory answer I've ever heard of: Shank's Haki is so damn broken that if he had attacked the Lord of the Coast to save Luffy, the force from his Haki would have also harmed/killed Luffy.

Shanks realized he couldn't punch the Lord of the Coast fast enough to save Luffy, so he gave his arm instead. Luffy beat the Lord of the Coast with a single punch in Romance Dawn: Shanks should have no problem defeating this beast.

Shanks could have beaten the Lord of the Coast, but the attack would have possibly harmed Luffy, so he chose to give up his arm, rather than risk hurting Luffy. Shanks is a true boss.

 

[Jailer]

CoC can be redirected tho to not target your allies, I assume Shanks had good enough control at that time

He simply bet his arm to the new era, simple as that, figurative meaning.

 

[Embers Kaios]

Ehh I always thought it was because if he used his power and killed the sea king, the sheer force alone would travel from the east blue to the grandline where Mihawk resides and 1 shot him by accident

 

[ranady]

No need further explanation, he only made a bet for future generation.

 

[Kyou]

No stop trying to make sense of stuff

 

[Boiroy]

Because he was tired of losing against Mihawk and needed an excuse not to fight against Mihawk anymore

 

[Finalbeta]

Only Tama could defeat the Lor D. of the coast.

 

[mly90]

What do you think of this interesting theory @Lor D. Coast

 

[Lor D. Coast]

Nothing has driven me more mad in this series when it comes to power-scaling than this dude eating Shank's arm:

Today I came up with the only satisfactory answer I've ever heard of: Shank's Haki is so damn broken that if he had attacked the Lord of the Coast to save Luffy, the force from his Haki would have also harmed/killed Luffy.

Shanks realized he couldn't punch the Lord of the Coast fast enough to save Luffy, so he gave his arm instead. Luffy beat the Lord of the Coast with a single punch in Romance Dawn: Shanks should have no problem defeating this beast.

Shanks could have beaten the Lord of the Coast, but the attack would have possibly harmed Luffy, so he chose to give up his arm, rather than risk hurting Luffy. Shanks is a true boss.

My haki is stronger.

 

[Eagle]

Fun fact: originally Shanks wasn't going to lose his arm, but at the time, Oda's editor said the story wasn't very "interesting". Therefore, Oda resorted to the choice to make Shanks lose his arm.

 

[GeneralP123]

Nothing has driven me more mad in this series when it comes to power-scaling than this dude eating Shank's arm:

Today I came up with the only satisfactory answer I've ever heard of: Shank's Haki is so damn broken that if he had attacked the Lord of the Coast to save Luffy, the force from his Haki would have also harmed/killed Luffy.

Shanks realized he couldn't punch the Lord of the Coast fast enough to save Luffy, so he gave his arm instead. Luffy beat the Lord of the Coast with a single punch in Romance Dawn: Shanks should have no problem defeating this beast.

Shanks could have beaten the Lord of the Coast, but the attack would have possibly harmed Luffy, so he chose to give up his arm, rather than risk hurting Luffy. Shanks is a true boss.

My own headcanon is that he really doesn't care about losing and arm so he bet it on Luffy.

 

[Minatoze Narutomaki]

do you really have to make yourself dumb just so you can accept something dumb ?

 

[straightforward]

he 'gave up' his arm because he wanted luffy to feel guilty and indebted bc this way the kid is easier to manipulate

of course, it's also possible that he's just really weak

 

[mmd]

I thought about this before..Now I can ask why Shanks didn't use the sword..Oda just wanted to cut off his hand..We may never get a logical reason from him

 

[Herrera95]

Shanks unleashed CoC at that moment.

Maybe other kinds of haki too.

It is really hard to scale even considering Shanks didn't had haki.

But the real reason was just to create emotional moment. Oda already said that was editors demand not his original idea.

 

[Malio]

No the fish overpowered him and took his arm. There's no nuance or context I was told. If you lose a limb, get stalled or just get cucked by Oda (Big Meme) that's it, there's no "outside factor" excuses.

Shanks got the L because of a Fish

 

[LANJI CUCKSMOKE]

dont try and power scale a decision simply made by oda and his editors to make that moment meaningful.

 

[SkySanji]

Shanks didn't let anything happen, he just wasn't fast or strong enough to prevent the fish from taking his arm, this tells us that fish > Mihawk.