I can't work around those feats my man. I'm just trying to work some PL into this because no matter how it's seen this makes Kid look far too bad man, like, couldn't even survive one attack? At this point and after that portrayal in Wano?
Yeah, I mean even I expected Kidd to put up some fight. Law at least did somehow fine against Blackbeard. Now either Law is much stronger than Kidd, which I don't believe, as they were always portrayed alongside each other, with Kidd even being a conqueror, or Shanks' abilities are truly off the charts. Just the way Shanks was portrayed as he walked into battle with Kidd, with Kidd being an insecure boy sweating as he was going into battle, while Shanks was portrayed as the most handsome, powerful and glorious man there is.
And people thought Shanks will just get off paneled by Blackbeard.
CoC less Oden is a thing as CoC barrier on sword could block that attack.
Zoro can casually deal with the attack now that ended Kidd.
Like probably can deal with it in his sleep. Simply because he has sufficient tool to do so.
I mean, Shanks and Mihawk are close in power. In fact, Oda himself wants to keep up the debate in the fandom. Hence saying Mihawk has greater swordskill than Shanks rather than simply saying Mihawk is more powerful, also having them share a birthday and panel time, also giving Shanks a height exactly 1cm more than Mihawk, akin to Zoro being 1cm taller than Sanji and King being 1cm taller than Queen, which is pretty precise to be accident.
Oda is doing this on purpose, lol.