Brother, Roger is also > Shanks. Luffy is trying to surpass Roger, thats his goal and you wanna tell me there is already another guy who did? Come on.
New gen Always surpass the previous one.
You have no Facts to prove Roger ~ Shanks. Nothing that way was ever portrayed. Only thing Roger have above Shanks is "pirate king" title and I tired of saying this pirate king is a fame title.
If he was so strong what made him sneak into bigmam territory. Whereas shanks made direct entrance to Marineford war.
Shanks and Roger both have Kamasuri with them , And shanks > Roger Kamasuri.
Only person I can make exception is Xebec who is probably stronger than shanks.
Luffy isn't trying to surpass Roger , he's trying to surpass Current Yonkou. Only thing which exist between Roger and Luffy is their dream that's it. It was just Roger words , In 20 years a few individuals who will surpass us will put an end to stuff , we were too early. And these few individuals is at the very least 3-5 people (Luffy, Zoro , Shanks , Mihawk , dragon most probably).
Name me one feat Roger has over Shanks? You got none.
Kaido ~ Shanks ~ Roger ~ WB
It's just y'all delusion to make Luffy the god of one piece and want him to Power creep even Yonkou. Which won't be happening.
Also look at the bounty. Mihawk is strength based and is just 3.6 B , Roger had Influence and strong crew (+1B)
Then he got to know about World history and void century.
If a clown like Robin get around a billion bounty just for existing and reading , those who know it ofc posses higher threat.
Remove that from rogers and he falls to 4.5B
Which is correct cuz 4.6B Kaidou and 5B Whitebeard , hold WS title which would make sense why higher than Roger if he didn't had void century knowledge.
You have zero hype from Roger to put him above Shanks.