Ill actually throw this question to the crowd any Blackbeard vs Saint Shanks believer:
Do you believe that Oda, king of short battles (outside of Luffy) and offscreens, can justify that Blackbeard and his 10 commanders will defeat Saint Shanks and all of his 9 commanders (+ Rockstar) in a way that makes viable sense where:
A) He shows just enough for each BB member but not enough to spoil their fight with the Strawhats
B) Each fight is remotely given enough screentime?
This is reason #1 out of like 10 that fundamentally makes zero sense to me in the context of the story. Im not saying they cant have beef. Im not saying they cant skirmish. But ill never understand how the above (and many other things) can be justified when Luffy and Saint Shanks' relationship is literally what drives the story.
Kid and Law losing make sense. Its something Oda can do cleanly in a few chapters because they are 1 ship crews with only 1-2 notable members. Plus, they have been shown off already, so their defeats are justified in the context of not becoming PK.
Please, im just looking for actual sound logic of Saint Shanks being a hypetool for Blackbeard that doesnt sound batshit.
Do you believe that Oda, king of short battles (outside of Luffy) and offscreens, can justify that Blackbeard and his 10 commanders will defeat Saint Shanks and all of his 9 commanders (+ Rockstar) in a way that makes viable sense where:
A) He shows just enough for each BB member but not enough to spoil their fight with the Strawhats
B) Each fight is remotely given enough screentime?
This is reason #1 out of like 10 that fundamentally makes zero sense to me in the context of the story. Im not saying they cant have beef. Im not saying they cant skirmish. But ill never understand how the above (and many other things) can be justified when Luffy and Saint Shanks' relationship is literally what drives the story.
Kid and Law losing make sense. Its something Oda can do cleanly in a few chapters because they are 1 ship crews with only 1-2 notable members. Plus, they have been shown off already, so their defeats are justified in the context of not becoming PK.
Please, im just looking for actual sound logic of Saint Shanks being a hypetool for Blackbeard that doesnt sound batshit.
Oda highlighted the nature of the Devil fruits within his crew: mimicking ppl, invisibility, warping, hypnotism, disease, these are all the worst lowdown ways to knock ppl down. I do not think Saint Shanks will be overpowered but rather outplayed. As we see this chapter, we know now Teach evaded Saint Shanks twice
Once at the mouth of Wano, he projected Teach to swoop in
Second at Elbaf, for wtvr reason
I do think Teach will have minimum the strength to push Saint Shanks back, as he did when they were younger (scar)
Wtvr it is, I think this part of the story will be something Oda has been carefully crafting. Like he said prior arcs don’t matter, now the real throne wars for Pirate King begin

:cheers:

