No its sick rodger. The rodger whom clashed was a sick rodger.

Its why he had to rush things and begged for oden. His time was running short

Again the entire narrative depicts rodger>whitebeard. They were never classified as equals.

Infact the notion doesn't even make sense

Whitebeard is more durable, more superhuman, has a broken debil fruit and haki and yet still was second to the man that had greater haki than him which compensated for every other stat whitebeard had over rodger.

Which again Implies how vastly more powerful Rodgers haki actually was
even in god valley they clashed equally, and nobody ever specifies that it was sick roger he was equal to. it's just roger in general
 
shiryu is obviously meant to be a training tool for his CoO so he can have future sight like mihawk

you keep ignoring that he still said loki could beat him while he was going berserk.

people forget that oda glazing shanks doesn't mean he'll go to absurd heights with the wank. he still felt comfortable putting mihawk above him, for example, and even portrays primebeard above him too
I never bought the hype for Shanks personally.
Ok then Nusjuro is Zoro’s final fight.
 
I never bought the hype for Shanks personally
Yeah I'm 50/50 with Shanks always because he's simply never had the chance to do much, y'know?

Like his current feats are impressive but I wonder how well he'd look under the spotlight; I mean look at how people started calling the old gen frauds after GV lmao.

Part of me suspects the Garling stock crush might end up repeating itself with Shanks, but the other part is skeptical.
 
I just can't buy the idea that Shanks, Nusjuro, Shiryu, or whoever else was actually the true strongest swordsman alive, and that Zoro will fight someone else after Mihawk. It kills the entire idea behind his rivalry with Mihawk
Well the theory that Zoro vs Mihawk is the last fight in the manga is one of the dumbest theories in the entire community.

Nusjuro’s strength is a secret, so he’s exempt from the WSS title. I don’t see the issue here. And Oda can obviously have Shiryu surpass Mihawk if he wants
 
even in god valley they clashed equally, and nobody ever specifies that it was sick roger he was equal to. it's just roger in general
God valley should not even be counted since even rox didnt believe whitebeard could help put him down. Rox put his faith in GARP and RODGER putting him down. Not whitebeard.

Whitebeard and bigmom literally failed to do anything to garp (Rodgers equal)
 
Well the theory that Zoro vs Mihawk is the last fight in the manga is one of the dumbest theories in the entire community.

Nusjuro’s strength is a secret, so he’s exempt from the WSS title. I don’t see the issue here. And Oda can obviously have Shiryu surpass Mihawk if he wants
This is just shitty writing. It's weird to have Mihawk be built up so much and basically be synonymous with Zoro's goal just for Oda to pull the rug and say "Sike! This random character is actually STRONGER than Mihawk!! Now Zoro has to fight HIM instead!!".
It doesn't make sense.
 
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