Future Events Shanks losing to BB will be very embarrassing for the "Hakiman"

#1
Blackbeard's main strength is that he can annul Devilfruits. Shanks has no Devilfruit. He is the perfect person to defeat Blackbeard, but for story reasons he will still lose. Blackbeard will probably win by playing dirty, but still. People won't debate about Redhair being top 1 anymore.
 
#3
Blackbeards also an incredibly skilled fighter scarring shanks who was dueling mihawk

Blackbeard pre devil fruit was a viable option to take over Odens spot instead of Ace as second division commander

The dark dark fruit does more than just take away devil fruit powers and he also has the quake quake fruit

Blackbeard May be strongest against devil fruit wielders, but he’s by no means weak against non DF users.
 
#4
I'm willing to bet Kid is going to cheapshot him, like Mr. Go did to Luffy, so that Blackbeard can get the lethal hit. Like probably assign Shanks's sword to the ground while he's focused on Teach.

Kid has significant build up with shanks and Oda needs to have him do something to justify him getting the 5 billion+ bounty alongside Luffy.

Also, Teach full on mid diffing shanks would be absolutely bonkers and would turn Luffy vs Blackbeard into another asspull fight like Luffy vs kaido.
 
#9
Blackbeard's main strength is that he can annul Devilfruits. Shanks has no Devilfruit. He is the perfect person to defeat Blackbeard, but for story reasons he will still lose. Blackbeard will probably win by playing dirty, but still. People won't debate about Redhair being top 1 anymore.
That depends on how Shanks lose. But in reality Shanks will lose to BB in an high/extreme fight.
BB having two fruits should effectively "negate" any "disadvantages".
 
#10
It’s kinda the point, it will show that BB is damn near unstoppable and it raise the tension between him vs Luffy. Not only he indirectly/directly killed two people very close to Luffy, he’s also strong enough to beat someone who in theory should have an advantage
 
#15
the road to laughtale even higlighted the scar again. oda always builds people up before they fall. greenball vs king and queen for example. now he has put shanks on a pedestal with the haki flash, to throw him down soon.
 
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#16
I really don't think Shanks will lose anymore.
It seems Oda tries his hardest to subvert expectations and Shanks losing to BB seems very obvious
Luffy becoming Pirate King is not obvious ? Zoro beating Mihawk is not obvious ? Teach fighting Luffy is not obvious ? Luffy fighting Akainu is not obvious ?
Oda will change any of that ? :seriously:
if its story requirement, Oda can't do anything about it, unless he wants to ruin his own story :gonope:
 
#17
Blackbeard's main strength is that he can annul Devilfruits. Shanks has no Devilfruit. He is the perfect person to defeat Blackbeard, but for story reasons he will still lose. Blackbeard will probably win by playing dirty, but still. People won't debate about Redhair being top 1 anymore.
the concept of Haki being stronger than DevilFruit is so stupid
Kaido who claimed so, used DF power as his ultimate attack
Luffy who is main character his ultimate attack is DF
Haki is just an addition
I don't know how Garp was supposedly strong as Whitebeard without any DF, WB had both strong Haki and Strongest DF but here we read he was equally strong....wth :kriwhat:
 
#18
If it's not a fair fight then that doesn't make Shanks weak. Whitebeard lost to blackbeard too but he was against the Marines, admirals, and blackbeard's crew shooting him.

So wasn't really a fair fight.

Shanks can lose to Blackbeard by trying to protect someone from one of Blackbeard's attacks then Shanks gets pounced on instead. Same way Luffy will lose to Blackbeard. Hostages, cheapshots.
 
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