Loki being stronger doesn't mean he beats mihawk or shanks in a 1v1, I'm talking about his overall base stats.
If Shanks can lock loki up without having to have a difficult fight with him, he should do that, why would he do otherwise when they literally share history together, being in the same room when Loki killed his father.
Shanks felt responsible for Harald's death, and doesn't want Loki to die either. What I'm talking about is overall stats like I already mentioned, could Mihawk outskill loki despite loki having more AP than him? sure, could Shanks have more haki mass to compete with Loki? sure.
When I mentioned why you have certainty, I was talking about from an objective standpoint, you say you're trying to scale loki this way, to not put him above kaido and old gen, sure sure, but your bias reeks for shanks, even if it turns out to be true, which it very well could be.
The scenario I painted was an IF statement in the first place, IF and only if Shanks had to go about it in a roundabout way.
Loki's attack has demonstrated it's affect and the surrounding context behind it shows it's portrayal, you can't even say shanks divine departure does as well on Harald, because we haven't seen it's affect on an immortal ancient giant.
Right now you have to objectively say Loki looks more impressive until otherwise, but you refuse because you're biased.
Dude, I already answered all of that,
I already said Loki have Superior Body & Superior World Threatening Power than Shanks, what more do you want?
But I told you that when Adv. CoC enters the Conversation, all that Superiority becomes Obsolete,
I literally listed so many Characters who are Superior than Shanks as a Being, but can They beat him? My Answer is No,
You're triggered by my first comment where I said that "Shanks can beat Loki in a fair 1v1",
And then you come & talk to me about Stats & whatever, even though I only mentioned Dueling, I never ever said Loki have Inferior Stats than Shanks, I even said that Loki is bigger Threat than Kaidou & WB,
You're just arguing for the sake of argument, you just want to say "I'm Biased" & then write a story around it,
Bias is when I lean towards an idea even though it doesn't apply to the logic I follow, it's when i twist & switch opinions to suit my agenda,
You can check my comment from previous threads about Adv. CoC, I always said that when Adv. CoC is included in a Duel, it makes all Stats Advantages Obsolete (Which includes DFs, Race Superiority, Abyss Contract, Science Boost, Special Weapons ... etc), and I don't apply my Logic only to Shanks, I said countless times that since Adv. CoC does that, then all Adv. CoC Users in their Prime are Equals, so I don't consider Roger or Xebec any different than Shanks, same for Garp or Oden or Rayleigh or Gaban,
My Opinion is still the same, I will not put anyone above Shanks & his Equals, unless I see a Power that Deletes Adv. CoC,
If Loki's DF or Ragnir is shown to Negate Adv. CoC, then I will be the first to put him above Shanks & his Peers.