Shanks ship has a Viking theme to it and he’s been tied to Viking mythology for awhile

Shanks is an amalgamation of Oda’s idea of piracy
One other major thing, Loki is a good guy and is essential against the World Government. Oda would never de-hype such a character lol. Shanks would flex against a bad guy on-panel like Shamrock instead.
 

ZenZu

The only one who can beat me is me
even a basic punch is much stronger than G5, Kizaru easily blocked Snakeman punch neg diff then later clashed with basic G5 punches and was huffing. G5 overall even base normal power is his strongest gear
There's also hybrid (not awakened) Lucci being side by side scaled with G4 Luffy, just like Yamato was with Snakeman.

So using @Shiroyru's own argument. Lucci looks better in this department.
 

Veku

Flamboyant
Tbf, Yamato is either strong, or getting powercreeped to shit, since we need 5 characters other than Goofy to beat Lorosei
Yamato is Kaido's daugther, she's got plenty of potential and Gorosei haven't been shown anything to suggest they are anything than your average top tier at best
 
One other major thing, Loki is a good guy and is essential against the World Government. Oda would never de-hype such a character lol. Shanks would flex against a bad guy on-panel like Shamrock instead.
But he did with Law lol

Oda is fine with having the good guys lose because in his story they keep growing. On the other hand villains are static because they don’t follow the unbreakable will the good guys have therefore they don’t grow as much
 
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