You are so dumb that you are unable to follow your own reasoning. You were the one that claimed that we can just look at enemies that the student defeated to know the strength of the master. Even acted as if bounties mattered as if Buggy is a badass.
To make it easier for a retard, like you, to understand: use a better example, animal. Only a shit character always remains weaker than his master and claiming that every enemy is weaker than a master when the master never showed anything on this level is moronic. Now try to think a little and maybe your stupid ass will understand some day. Maybe...
Yeah, I know. He asks why he would challenge Shanks after he lost his arm. That was the reason for the second question after the one you quoted.
Since you usually debate in good faith, my reasoning is actually very simple: if Mihawk was clearly the better swordsman and won against
Shanks in their bouts it would be clear in the dialogue. Even assuming that he is actually serious that Shanks is not on his level anymore, this still implies that he was good enough to have a advantage in whatever way they choose to keep the score (it can very well be that some of their bouts were like Gay vs kakashi level of bullshit). The question by itself was: if Shanks was weaker than Mihawk when they fought, why the dialogue shows Mihawk as the challenger? Specially because Mihawk never sugarcoat anything.
That was basically the challenge
No you brainless shit eating time wasting little donkey
The fact that you mentioned zeff tells me your brain is full of lotion tissues and dog shit while your diet only consists of toilet water and dirt you lick off of windows.
All of Zoros feats and Odens feats can be scaled to Mihawk because they are two pure blood swordsmen who have not accomplished the strength of the strongest.
Zoro unlocked his advanced CoC and stomped King who admirals can't beat without cheating and neither can they beat Marco and the reasoning for Zoro being able to unlock one of the strongest CoC in the series was his ambition of becoming stronger than Mihawk one day.
Which if you understand the basic concept of 2+2 = 4 then the fact that Zoros CoC is that strong and it is still getting stronger and stronger than Mihawks CoC is much stronger and if Zoro can stomp strongest YC1 who is damn near admiral level himself, then Mihawk can stomp an admiral because Zoro is still getting stronger and stronger until he finally gets as strong as Mihawk.
And Mihawks bounty directly applies to his strength because the REASONING for his bounty is that he is stronger than Shanks and stronger than every swordsman.
He can become Yonko anytime..he had to Yonko title he gave it to a clown.
Shanks Haki was never strong enough to make a black blade and make a WSS.
Reasoning for Shanks bounty was his strong crew and famous commander and he barely have 4 Billion bounty.
If Mihawk took that lowly yonko title and killed buggy..his bounty would automatically be 5 Billion because without being a leader of the crew his bounty is nearly 4 Billion.
That all tells us Mihawk is stronger than ever Roger and Whitebeard much less Shanks.
And you can keep bringing Vista to give yourself satisfaction because admirals are actually canonically embarrassed by commanders while Mihawk was day dreaming against Vista.