So Shanks can't be cut due to his superior Haki level, and overpowers his opponent due to Haki difference, and you think that would make him a ''more skilled'' swordsman? LOL.
Oda still not even adding 1 single sword technique from Shanks inside of Film Red that suppose to highlight Shanks of course making this suspicious. Mihawk fans will be disappointed and cry a lot since they are so sure about how Shanks fights but somehow Oda never speaks about it.
We also have a panel Alber refusing to be a swordsman despite using a sword, Zolo calls him killing machine instead.
Then Alber:
Using a sword, even skillfully (as Alber used) doesn't make them swordsman according to Oda.
How he got his scars from teenie dfless, hakiless Teach is another mystery
Biggest mystery? At least 3 literal haki monsters not fucking sensing the weirdness about Teach for decades when pre ts Luffy and Zoro did it at first sight.
Back to Shanks. I think a valid option of making Shanks a good fighter is giving him some super CoC Susanoo. If Zoro can CoC produce Asura, Shanks should be able to produce something like that too. A much much bigger advanced one, given his experience.
Thats exactly what I'm expecting too, glad we're on the same page heh. Maybe it could look like a gyphon too, hence his sword's name? particularly huge one even ofc?
Tfw we still don't know why Zoro can use Asura and thus what it actually is too.
Same guy literally says there Oda never said SKILL
Then he said it LOL. You make this easy for me.
What is that FraTroll? Is that mean Greatest is wrong translation?
Just because its called strongest sometimes, that doesn't make GREATEST translation disappear, also LMAO troll, Sandman himself translated this as GREATEST:
This is Dai Kengou title, not Saikyo, the better translation is Dai Kengou since swordsmanship is a skill, not something called as strongest man or creature LOL. You don't say strongest marksman, you say greatest marksman, it could be different in Japanese language, but in English, you don't say strongest marksman. You can be swordsman, and marksman and something else at the same time, stronger swordsman can lose to inferior swordsman due to other fighting styles.
Keep putting my quotes in your signature desperate troll.
Same guy literally says there Oda never said SKILL
Then he said it LOL. You make this easy for me.
What is that FraTroll? Is that mean Greatest is wrong translation?
Just because its called strongest sometimes, that doesn't make GREATEST translation disappear, also LMAO troll, Sandman himself translated this as GREATEST:
This is Dai Kengou title, not Saikyo, the better translation is Dai Kengou since swordsmanship is fighting a skill, not something called as strongest man or creature LOL. You don't say strongest marksman, you say greatest marksman, it could be different in Japanese language, but in English, you don't say strongest marksman. You can be swordsman, and marksman and something else at the same time, stronger swordsman can lose to inferior swordsman due to other fighting styles.
Keep putting my quotes in your signature desperate troll.
Its called Dai Kengou many times, infact the first translation for that title is Dai Kengou in chapter 5.
Why do you think VIZ choose to use Dai Kengou instead of Saikyo here:
When it was saying Saikyo? Because Saikyo doesn't make sense for English language, you don't say strongest marksman, you say greatest marksman. Same for swordsmanship, its a fighting style.
Lol The fact that literally everyone u mentioned is a devil fruit user
Oda never uses the term ‘ strength ‘ in these supposed things , he actually did the same thing by saying Denjiro has the greatest swordsmanship among the scabbards which shows us 2 things
1. Denjiro is the strongest scabbard
2. Most of the scabbards are swordsmen ( which is in fact true with prob the exception of raizo and kanjuro and both of them are also df users lol )
And about that ‘ how does he actually fight argument ‘ ….
It’s simply being excited abt how shanks will fight in the future , nothing regarding his fighting style being something different from swordsmanship
Now let’s talk about shanks always using his sword while he wants to fight
1. Ace comes to visit him and when shanks talks abt fighting, the first thing he picks is his sword

When shanks challenges everyone at marineford
He takes out his sword

When shanks fights wb
He takes out his sword and uses it to clash with the emperor


When he wants to block an attack from a toptier
He takes out his sword


The funny thing is even after the haki blast towards greenbul
Shanks is seen holding the sheathe of his sword,
Looks like shanks instinctively grabs his sword when he is angry .

even while being young , all we saw was shanks using a sword while fighting

Oda always tries to squeeze shanks’ sword whenever he is introduced in the manga
- u can see it urself on how he tries his best to squeeze gryphon in the cover pages


when oda drew an art for shanks to promote film red , we still see shanks with a sword
It’s almost as if gryphon is very dear to him
Which is very true , so true that oda has actually mentioned gryphon being beloved to him

And I have also noticed a thing here , oda often puts this ‘ beloved blade / sword ‘ term in the vivrecards of known swordsmen

- tashigi and brook also fit in this category with their vivre cards who are swordsmen themselves
- I have actually never seen oda using this term for someone who is not a swordsman
It’s almost as if he has categorised these characters using this term
- oda had absolutely no problem in naming these people as ‘ a group of swordsmen ‘ even tho he saw shanks there

- now the thing which puts the nail in the coffin on how oda actually views shanks as a fighter is
With a cover page he was trying to draw himself


when oda tries to draw a group of characters with the title ‘ a sword story ‘ he thinks of drawing shanks in it
- shanks has swordsman written all over him but due to a certain agenda many people deny him being a swordsman .
- film red fucked debate by giving shanks a further enhanced sword style in which he uses flames
And also shows how shanks fights and he uses a sword every fucking time


- shanks beating the monster first time by using his sword

- Yshanks beating the monster second time by using his sword
i think is safe to say hes a swordsman but this doesn't define him and shanks and crew will do anything it takes to win if they decide to participate in a conflict, from burning people's eyes out with cigarettes to shooting them in the back of the head by surprise. imo shanks will use a sword at a very high level comparable with mihawk but he will also cheat his ass off and fight dirty in a way that makes usopp look honest, just to make sure he wins.
he does coo killer in the manga. he sent the wifi haki to green bull only. everyone else didn't know shanks was there. even luffy who should be able to tell bc of his emotion sensitive coo couldnt tell it was shanks.
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