So only the narrator can give info dumps in a manga now?
in OnePiece that's the most reliable but it depends how you wanna interpret what marines stated.. if you wanna take that as a solely skill ie; superiority in swordsmanship .. which can mean either that Shanks doesn't utilize anything else but his sword in combat not even kicks or guns.. then thats plain superiority to Shanks then its baseless given the factual discrepancies and the drought in that decade to really conclusively say that Mihawk is still superior let alone now over 10 years later where Shanks is completely different and has monumental defeats under his belt... its just a disconnect of realities of 2 different times
Marines are a flawed organization and they contradict in story realities and we see them do so as well so there is no point in taking anything ambiguous from them as a factual instance of realty
How you came to that conclusion?
I just don't question info dumps. These are presumed facts and it is irrelevant how the person making the statement got it
thats your prerogative to take things literally.. i don't or many don't here as well
you are just regressing at this point.
You don't know how burden of proof works. Your logic =/= fact
its ironic where the burden of proof is on you to prove that Marines are not taking old duels and Mihawk's existing status into account + Shank's arm and are using plausible in story instances where Mihawk and Shank's have said to have fought and shanks had shown inferiority in competence
the argument completely changes if you includes hax like haki, kicks, sabotage into account.. then its not only about skill or swordsmanship its about who's superior to whom regardless of skills of swords.. but rather everything taken into consideration.
and we both know we can't prove that coz we don't know how it will go down.. nir do the marines ..
I'm not even saying Shanks is superior I'm just saying the assumptions based dodgy claims ain't a smart way to play this out