Bougya Shanks vs Teach is going to happen this arc. How Oda will set Teach up to be the next villain.

#1
Teach has defeated Law, but he still lacks the hype to be Luffy's next opponent. He has no advanced haki, meanwhile Luffy has all 3 forms of advanced haki.

Furthermore, even granting that Law is a more dangerous foe than Kid, Shanks looked considerably better than Teach to the point to where it makes Teach seem underwhelming in comparison. To put it another way, do you really see Kaido struggling as much against Law as Teach did?

imo Oda needs to do something that hypes Teach to be the next main antagonist. In one shotting Kid, a man who 2v1ed Big Mom, Oda portrayed Shanks as one of the strongest characters in One Piece(if you didn't already believe this). Someone who's at the very least on Kaido's tier. If Teach were to defeat Shanks, a feat that even Kaido seemed to be unable to accomplish, it would portray Teach as one of the strongest pirates in history. The very portrayal he needs in order to be the next villain.

That is why I think this is the very thing that will happen during the egghead island arc.

A lot of people think Teach needs a third DF to be the strongest, however I'm not entirely sure this is the case. As we haven't seen him use any awakenings yet. This will likely be the key to Teach's victory over Shanks. Shanks will push Teach to extreme diff and utterly beat the shit out of him, much in the same way Kaido did to Luffy. Teach will nearly die. Then he will awaken the yami yami no mi and/or the gura gura no mi, with this being the catalyst to Teach's victory.

Meanwhile on egghead island, Luffy will defeat Kizaru, with Luffy either killing Kizaru or being presumed to have killed Kizaru(basically what happened to Kaido at the end of wano). With Kizaru gone the WG's balance of powers will be thrown into disarray, forcing the Gorosei to accept Teach's proposition and accept Hachinosu into the world government.

At the end of Egghead. Teach will have 2 awakened DFs, be the strongest pirate in history, and a King ordained by the World Government. The ultimate opponent for Luffy going forward.
 
#5
Why would Kizaru's potential defeat prompt the WG into accepting BB's request? I don't see where that correlates.
It's not like BB is going to fight for them and Koby isn't going to be their answer for a vacant Admiral spot
 
#6
Why would Kizaru's potential defeat prompt the WG into accepting BB's request? I don't see where that correlates.
It's not like BB is going to fight for them and Koby isn't going to be their answer for a vacant Admiral spot
There is a correlation, although one not mentioned in the original post.

The whole thing about Koby as a hostage (and potentially Garp if he gets captured here) is that they would be killing a hero of the marines the current generation (not only of marines, but of citizens worldwide) look up to, supposedly damaging both the marines' morale and reputation.

If they lose Kizaru and Koby at the same time the damage to morale and reputation would be double.
 
#8
There is a correlation, although one not mentioned in the original post.

The whole thing about Koby as a hostage (and potentially Garp if he gets captured here) is that they would be killing a hero of the marines the current generation (not only of marines, but of citizens worldwide) look up to, supposedly damaging both the marines' morale and reputation.

If they lose Kizaru and Koby at the same time the damage to morale and reputation would be double.
Also Nika has returned

even if Teach isn’t a long term solution, the WG could at least use him to try to get rid of Luffy
 
#9
There is a correlation, although one not mentioned in the original post.

The whole thing about Koby as a hostage (and potentially Garp if he gets captured here) is that they would be killing a hero of the marines the current generation (not only of marines, but of citizens worldwide) look up to, supposedly damaging both the marines' morale and reputation.

If they lose Kizaru and Koby at the same time the damage to morale and reputation would be double.
Ah I see, BB would force their hand at that point. Thanks for clearing that up
 
#13
Could it be that BB's Yami awakening is absorbing DFs into his body without even needing to kill them? For example he can just take Fujitora's DF by making long enough physical contact. If BB can do this much, he can beat Shanks.
 
#14
Could it be that BB's Yami awakening is absorbing DFs into his body without even needing to kill them? For example he can just take Fujitora's DF by making long enough physical contact. If BB can do this much, he can beat Shanks.
How could this help in a 1vs1 against a fruitless man?

I believe he can and will beat Shanks but I didn't get your point.
 
#15
How could this help in a 1vs1 against a fruitless man?

I believe he can and will beat Shanks but I didn't get your point.
By absorbing the powerful fruits in his body before fighting Shanks. Having 5 DFs like darkness, quake, gravity, repel, light, warp, etc etc all those unfair hax in one body will guarantee a win against haki master imo.
 

Apollo

The Sol King
#16
Let him awaken his DFs, so we can see those powers at their peak. WB had the power to destroy the world with Gura, while Yami is hyped as the most powerful logia.
 
#17
Teach is set up to be the final villain. Now Oda is hyping up Shanks while BB wasn't hyped up so much (his fight with Law was nowhere as overwhelming as Shanks and vs Kidd, and Law and Kidd are shown as equals, 2 sides if the same coin, just like BB and Shanks). Why? Because BB will still grow, get his 3rd df and who knows what until he is ready to fight and defeat Shanks and at that point only EoS Luffy will be barely able to defeat him. Between now and the BB fight I guess we will get Imu and hus lackeys, an Elbaf arc with maybe giants as the villains or directly some WG guy (are the gorosei actually fighters? Who can be a stronger villain than Kaido and BM at this point considering Shanks and BB are EoS stuff?)
 
#18
I think BB will invade Elbaf when Strawhats are there. Maybe Luffy ran into the scar man. Luffy will have to hurry to New Marineford though, because Akainu scheduled a public execution.
 

Pantheos

Heavy Metal
#20
No, Shanks vs Blackbeard wont happen in my book.

After Kid and Law, also Luffy will get another lose, he will be overpowered by Saturn and he will be lead to Elbaf after that. There, Kid, Law and Luffy come together, get their next power up arc. But Law will be more focused about getting knowledge together, Kid and Luffy will just go into strength, Haki and perfection their DFs. Maybe they even train together and fight each other in training.
After that, they will again go their routes.

Then Luffy will get to Blackbeard and fight him, while Kid will go again against Shanks, and finaly beat him.
 
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