It was during the Kaido fight that Bo put Luffy > Mihawk. It’s less about Luffy and more about Mihawks lack of feats. That’s literally all it is. If Mihawk gets feats that put him > Luffy I’d change my mind.
You’re right I have Shanks > Luffy it’s because of feats lol. The way that Shanks handled Kid, Greenbull, and his haki was compared to Joyboy puts him at another level for me. If Mihawk does something similar then I’ll give him the same credit.
1. oh okay so you're pulling this stunt, you're choosing literal feats over narrative portrayal, so you have kinemon > dragon, since Kinemon for example undoubtedly has more feats than dragon like his durabilty feat of taking kaidos attacks. Which is why he also scales over a character like katakuri for example.
While using this methodology
is sound, it is sound only up until a
certain point, where you have to logically assume a characters strength based on their portrayal.
But if you literally want to ignore everything about Mihawk's portrayal, you can go ahead, but that is
illogical.
Really it seems you're being a bit disingenuous when you say "that's all it is haha". For example if we analyse a feat you just brought up, Shanks one shotting Kidd right:
The attack Shank's used to one shot kidd
is his swordsmanship, and you and I both know that attack was not anywhere near the strongest sword attack Shanks can do
, especially after seeing what gaban just did. And you wouldn't say gaban>shanks either even though he showed a stronger attack with a weapon.
The fact that Mihawk's swordsmanship is superior to shanks's, should tell you that Mihawk's sword techniques would also have the ability to one shot kidd. If you disagree because he "simply hasn't shown a feat" of him doing something like this:
You're actually choosing the more illogical take, even with what you think is sound reasoning to base off of literal feats, because you're trying to say the strongest swordsman has weaker attacks than that one instance of shanks using divine departure and not going all out.
So I wouldn't rate that methodology too highly when it comes to tackling topics like this.
2. Also another flaw in that line of argumentation is:
What move has shanks shown that is stronger than bajrang gun? because he hasn't actually shown a move as powerful as that. You might go "shanks haki was compared to joyboy though" but the problem here is
enough hasn't been shown to understand that comparison especially if we use your methodology.
You understand that his haki being compared to joyboy
is not a feat,
it's a narrative statement, similar to mihawk's title (a statement you're choosing to believe without the literal feat you claim we need) . According to
your own logic, for it to have any validity he'd have to go all out, so we can directly make that comparison between shanks haki and joyboys.
Because for all we know, if the giants saw bajrang gun, with the scale and haki it was letting off
they might have compared that to shanks's haki as well, just like the haki joyboy let off. Shanks would have to show something stronger for that statement to
isolate shanks and joyboy alone in another tier.
So with that being said, I don't know why you're so certain shank's is > luffy,
other than his portrayal , like the joyboy comparison, and if you are consistent you would have mihawk > luffy for the same reasons.
Because based on what we've seen, for example I don't know why shanks one shotting kidd is special, when it's perceivable that bajrang gun could obliterate kidd and his crews ship. Especially since Kidd's crew is fodder besides Killer, and both have them haven't
shown anything anywhere near it's level, to where they are capable of handling it
3. So hopefully you understand why this line of logic doesn't particularly fly, you're choosing to hyper-impose it on Mihawk
because of whatever reasons, but even I don't believe luffy is > shanks. Because I accept Shanks's portrayal, just like I accept Mihawk's portrayal, and both of them are portrayed on another tier while Luffy is still learning to master g5 and his haki.