Did he actually struggle against cipher pol? Honestly don’t remember. Do you got the panel
If shanks was a top tier 12 years ago so was blackbeard
Shanks was Great Pirate , Yonko level
Base Teach matched and scarred him lol
Also it's not stated that WsW and co lost to RHP if I remember wel
Shanks only took the df lol
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Newsflash, you gotta be Yonko level in strength first, before other people in verse start calling you a Yonko.
Shanks asks Luffy to surpass him by becoming a Great Pirate. Oda had these ideas in his head in chapter 1 and years of dishonesty on how Shanks was Babanuki level before he got the Yonko title get exposed.

Cope
Oda made Shanks yonko/Great Pirate only 6 years ago. Shanks only got 1B bounty 12 years ago
Anything else is you coping
Top tier Shanks is easily beating Kidd but i must believe Top tier Shanks will struggle against base Teach and not even win lol
When Garp talks about Shanks, he says "he's now one of the 4 great pirates alongside WB" not "he was always a Great Pirate"
Nobody considered Shanks Great Pirate ir else he would be having 2B+ bounty back then and yonko/great pirate status
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Apparently WsW and Teach are top tiers to pose a problem to Great Pirate Shanks 12+ years ago