Why would sharks know that bb needed that particular devil fruit
We know so little about Shanks that I obviously can't answer that lol.
But the thing is, Shanks was scarred by Blackbeard and also told Whitebeard before that he knew Blackbeard was bad news.
Basically, I think Shanks has been keeping an eye on Blackbeard for longer than we know. Ofc this is speculation.
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Semi-bloodlusted Rufi with his 'chosen one' df power couldn't beat a semi-serious pre-Shusui and Enma Zoro in Whisky Peak
I think an important thing people always ignore is MATCHUPS. Even if Luffy is stronger in all stats, Luffy would just punch into blades.
Luffy is NOT so fast that Zoro cannot react. Zoro is not as fast on his feet as someone like Sanji, but Zoros ARMS are fast as fuck boi. Every attack of his is a blitz.
And Luffy attacks with his own body, making himself a huuuuuuge target. So yeah, realistically, if Zoro actually tried killing Luffy, he would just defend with the blades and Luffy has no way of hurting him without slicing his own arm in half.
In Whiskey Peak I am convinced Zoro never tried to go for a kill, they both were just pissed and talking big.
In the anime version Zoro even PUNCHED Luffy with the blade in hand because they didn't know how tf to animate this without Luffy hard losing logically xD
In the manga the fight is barely shown ofc.
So yeah, Luffy loses by default because a swordfighter with decent reaction time and enough haki to cut through Luffys haki has the matchup advantage.
But don't worry, Luffy stans will claim Zoro can't cut through Luffys body xD