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You can argue for luffy being stronger than him now tbh And you’re still ignoring matchup and the unknown circumstances of the fight. For all we know shanks will become stronger and/or luffy will be nerfed

We don’t know when or under what circumstances they’ll fight Also luffy isn’t going to make the same amount of growth every arc

Also imu might have an ability to negate devil fruits too with the potential Umibōzu connection So that’s shanks, Blackbeard, and imu Shanks through his haki Blackbeard through his fruit abilities Imu through idk

My point is them currently If roger could potentially do it to his equal whitebeard shanks should be able to do the same to current luffy

Shanks can do it to other top tiers so idk. Roger might’ve even been able to do the same against whitebeard So idk him getting stronger without his fruit might end up really important Based on nika luffy might get some weapons training

At this point luffy has already advanced extremely far in both his fruit and haki development. While he might need a bit more time to fully master them further point is he’s already a master in both So what if his next step is just improving his base abilities next? His crew potentially...