Not necessarily. Mihawk shot a blade beam at Whitebeard without any CoC or CoA behind it. As evidenced by the fact that Jozu ate it without being affected due to his devil fruit. Pure swordsmanship means pure swordsmanship. Everything else just makes you a better fighter.
And like I said...
The funny thing to me is that the focus here isn't quite on track. Shanks is a swordsman, but swordsmanship isn't his primary skill and he isn't actually, as far as we've seen, a particularly talented swordsman at all. There is one metric that exists in One Piece that you can use to judge a...
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