Then why not just call him weaker? "
He did, when he called Mihawk the World's Strongest Swordsman in the same sentence lmfao 🤣. Bro this manga is aimed at teenagers it's not supposed to be that complicated lool
I don't see any flaws in my line of reasoning yet. You can be the weaker swordsman but not weaker overall depending on how you can make up for it like with my Jozu example.
The flaw is that this does not make sense. Shanks
is a swordsman, Mihawk
is a swordsman. Mihawk is the
strongest swordsman.
Swordsmanship is the only fighting style Shanks has. For example, you can say Mike Tyson is stronger than Mayweather as a boxer but Mayweather is more skilled. In this case, Mihawk is both stronger and more skilled. You could say Mayweather is stronger than McGregor as a boxer but that doesn't make him stronger overall, and that works because McGregor has another fighting style.
Shanks does
not have another fighting style. He is a swordsman, end of. He is strongest when using swordsmanship. If Mihawk is both more skilled
and stronger
and a swordsman, then he is stronger overall, because if Shanks narratively cannot defeat Mihawk using his sword, then he's sure as shit not gonna magically get stronger if he throws his sword away and starts kickboxing lmfaooo 😂. He'll get shitstomped without his sword and loses to Mihawk with his sword, as does every other swordsman alive.
The agenda is over; Xebec proves that cutting is not the be-all end-all to swordsmanship. You can be renowned as an exceptional swordsman even when using blunt shockwaves etc... These non-cutting abilities also form a part of swordsmanship. It proves that Shanks is included in Mihawk's title and so would Xebec and Roger if they were alive.