You could argue that reason shanks took kid out so easily as well was because kid had also had his railgun deflecting on him too in combination with the divine departure hitting him.
Not counting the ones without feats like dragon and 1/2 Shanks/ Mihawk they are tied for now, the next ones below them is quite significantly inferior to these 2 3/4 Luffy / Akainu. Akainu mybe slight edge but dont forget luffy stood against Kaido, someone we know that will bust the hell out of akainu 5 BB 6 Kuzan 7 The gorosei. ( they are probably all the same lvl)
Top 5. I believe he is a celestial dragon with specialty way beyond the average pirate. Warrior like his father Figarland, Haki Mastery like Rayleigh, with potential of Roger if he wouldnt have ever gotten sick. @godgoku1776
shanks doubters are some of the funniest people in this community lmao. they will see him literally doing shit never before seen like its nothing every time he appears and ignore it while glazing people that literally have to leach off of him for relevance(mihawk), got sonned by him in canon(akainu and bb at mf), or straight up running away(gb). if any of those characters had one of the feats shanks did they would never downplay it
He has the bests feats. I also think he's the strongest (except for Imu) just how characters react to him. Like Kidd fought against Kaido and Big Mom yet he one shots him. His Haki is unrivaled.
@@milesrieger7449 well to me, its just the fact that coc can only get stronger as the user themselves gets stronger. essentially meaning whoever has the strongest coc should be the strongest. aka shanks(or imu the literal conquer of the world)
This is what im saying idk how we downplay someone that is clearly a golden boy and a favorite of the author of the show😂 he will undoubtedly make a big show of power soon.
13:02 katakuri can NOT see 10 seconds into the future, never stated nor implied. 10 seconds were stated because its the longest distance we've seen. Falling to your knees doesn't take 10 seconds
In katakuri’s introduction, he retold capone bege his vision of the future, if you count the amount of words katakuri said and apply the average speaking pace of 150 words per minute then you can estimate that he looked around 12-15 seconds into the future.
Shanks is essentially depicted as the stand-in for Gol D. Roger. He is somewhatt the Heir and Guardian of Rogers throne. Especially in terms of skill and attack potency Shanks styled himself after the Pirate King. Narratively it makes sense to have Shanks close to but not quite at Rogers level, so that Luffy after defeating Shanks can claim the crown.
It’s already stated shanks has the strongest observation haki lol just bc he only used it to see ten seconds against Kidd doesn’t mean that’s all he can see
i mean now the anime episode is already out and the sequence is literally 30 seconds and its pretty clear that shanks just stops watching after seeing what kid did, not because his vision ran out
Can't understand why people are doubting Shank's dominance smh. He literally kept Kaido away from Marine Ford with his presence alone. Let that sink in
@@eazyekilla_7903 stated they fought. It just didn't last long, so either kaido got no diff'd or he gave up and left before the fight ended, either way that implies he cant make it past shanks
Daily reminder that Blackbeard left a scar across Shanks face while he was ON GUARD and that was before Blackbeard had the Gura Gura no Mi devilfruit and possibly even before he had the Yami Yami no Mi devilfruit.
@@jojoplayz3008 yeah thats true, the shanks yall are using to gas bb with was barely after rogers execution lmao, hell he didn't even have facial hair based on the uta diary
@@solardxgamer1692 literally shanks HIMSELF was the one who brought up Blackbeard scarring him lmao, you can say what you want but by his own admission Shanks acknowledges Blackbeards power.
The only characters I have above Shanks are Imu, Blackbeard, and Mihawk. I could also put Kaido on top because of his title, but his title has many flaws and doesn't have as much narrative importance as Mihawk's in my opinion. Zoro's entire ambition, goal, and character hinges on Mihawk's title being true. Or else Zoro will fail at achieving his dream and fulfilling his promise to Luffy and Kuina. And Imu and Blackbeard are basically Luffy's endgame opponents. And that Luffy will already have surpassed Shanks at that point.
@@mrackz5694 Well yes if we go by pure feats then Kaido and Luffy are at the top, because of the crazy shit they were doing on Onigashima. But there is a reason Imu, Blackbeard, Mihawk, Shanks have been left for the final saga.
I like to think that Mihawk helped Shanks out with training his arm. We know they met sometime after Shanks lost his arm and hefore Mihawk turned up with that wanted poster. It explains how Shanks got back his strength and why Mihawk is disapointed. He’s seen Shank’s current level.
Not once did this guy mention that Shanks has the Greatest Haki Feats in The Series. Nobody comes close not even Roger and Whitebeard (from what we have seen) which is Crazy.
On the divine departure scaling you didn’t mention how Kids strongest attack, Damned Punk, blew up in his face point blank. That definitely did huge amounts of damage to him and should be considered when scaling divine departure.
Kid didn’t fire the Damned Punk so I wouldn’t scale the explosion to the attack in general. That said I don’t think it makes a difference especially considering Killer helped defend Kid he still got knocked out.
@@zagessj even if it didn’t fire, it is still gathering large amounts of energy, enough to destroy an entire fleet. Though when it exploded it probably wasn’t at full power. Also killer didn’t really defend Kid he sort of just made a move to but got caught in shanks attack and the explosion while not accomplishing anything. I definitely think the damned punk explosion put some real damage on kid.
I’ll put it this way. To me there’s no way that one of shanks attacks did more damage to kid than everything that big mom and kaido did during the entire raid. If there’s one thing kid is good at it getting hit hard and getting back up. So for kid to be dying and unconscious after shanks attack that explosion must have put in some work. At least that’s my reasoning.
haki causes explosions you would have to prove it wasn't a haki explosion. Also shanks attacked kid during the 10 seconds, so you can argue kid didn't even charge the attack
@@OGTwist we don’t know how much charge Kid canon had, I’ll grant you that, but considering the following scenario see which one makes more sense. 1) shank cuts through Kid’s canon, while he is charging it up, to attack Kid which causes the canon to explode. 2) shank cuts through Kid’s canon, while he is charging it up, nothing happens with the canon, and shanks haki materializes in explosions. Which seems more plausible? Also, I don’t recall haki creating explosions, only creating shockwaves. Shanks is strong, but not 1 attack > big moms entire kit.
Shanks did promise Luffy that he would challenge him when he became a great pirate and said that he would get there with Buggy. Him deciding to move happens after reading the paper where it is announced Buggy and Luffy are Yonko.
For sure a mihawk victim. We're about to see our glorious musketeer king neg diff the gorosei, have shanks saying 'glad I lost one arm I don't want to fight you I'd look like a rat!'
He's not the strongest but definetly amongst the top tier as he's constantly hyped up to be on the level of characters like Kaido, Whitebeard, the other yonkos and the OG admirals. Still overrated imo as people thinks he's the strongest yonko (which he clearly isn't) or just the strongest pirate in the current era
Shanks can't be the strongest because Mihawk exists, also, IMU, potentially Akainu, Blackbeard are good candidates to be stronger than Shanks, as they've shown less feats, the stronger characters tend to show feats later on.
Yep. Also lets imagine we give shanks his two arms and a black blade and we take mihawk's arm and give him a normal sword😂would ppl still argue then? Probs
@@abdu7095 That's got nothing to do with what I'm saying. Mihawk is canonically strength than Shanks, as statements and title prove this from the literal MANGA and vivre cards and databooks. Cry more if you want.
You downplayed shanks heavily here in my opinion. Saying shanks future sight may not be that impressive when he was easily seeing double the length in the future katakuri was ever able to. Not to mention, Shanks might be top 3 in terms of speed feats in the series. Hes that guy, and the only people i can genuinely say are genuine arguments for being stronger than him are Blackbeard and Dragon. Some other wildcards are St. Garling and maybe Imu. Hes definitely lock top 5 alive though.
I think the future sight time frame is questionable there isn’t an accurate way of determining how long went by in the Katakuri wedding scene. I should’ve explained that better but it’s perfectly reasonable to say Shanks saw a longer distance in the future.
@@garou417 shanks has better showings and portrayal, cope about it. There’s nothing except statements and a title to actual argue mihawk is stronger. And titles have notoriously been loosely accurate in one piece. I mean buggy is literally an emperor. Off that alone a moron could try to say he’s stronger than most pirates when he’s not.
Btw, to expand on your shanks future sight point, katakuri in his introducation was able to perfectly retell the future that he saw to capone bege, if you count the amount of words he said and use the average speaking pace of 150 words per minute, you can estimate that katakuri saw 12-15 seconds into the future (which luffy and maybe kaido scale to) which is a whole 2-5 seconds more than shanks, and shankstards will convince you he’s the best future sight user with no evidence 😂😂😂😂😂
@@davitanaka2430 Are you a fan of the show or a troll? Did you even watch this video? I don't think you are a fan because you'd know that Shanks lost an arm to a random SeaKing. That's not good durability, especially compared to what Kaido had endured without using haki.
@worldbosspf1 I agree to an extent. Out of Kaido's top 5, 3 can definitely defeat him 1v1. 1 scarred him badly and probably would have won. Shank's by that logic has a good chance of winning, too.
Bro shanks isn’t gonna fight Kaido like some caveman where they just smash eachother with clubs like Patrick star. Shanks has one of the best observation haki and is also extremely fast Kaido is barley getting hits in. Roger also has less durability but he would win too he got killed by fodder swords
Shanks can never be the strongest, Mihawk is stated to be the worlds strongest swordsman in NAME AND ACTUALITY. and the title is in reference to combat prowess, because zoro needs to BEAT Mihawk by taking the title, and when Zoro asked for training to BEAT Mihawk, Mihawk taught him HAKI and made him physically STRONGER, FASTER, MORE SKILLED. All of which Shanks specialises in. Kaido would just slam bro too
What if Shanks pulls out a Gat? Can he be the Strongest then? Cause Pirates use Guns and Shanks Crew all carry a Heater with them so its not a far stretch to say that Shanks can't have one too.
Im terrified of what shanks could be able to do a celestial dragons son who was raiswd by the pirate king with some of the greatest haki mastery in the story he is a threat but we dont know how major
Mihawk looks at the same current day Shanks and calls him a one arm has been. He’s stated to be a proficient at seeing character’s strength in the data book.
@@abdulrisark4782 Nope... He used his one arm as an excuse to avoid facing Shanks and rather to face a swordsman who's hungry for the title of "The World's Greatest Swordsman" than Shanks.
@@shawnorjiakorcurrent Mihawk vivre card says Mihawk is the strongest swordsman in one piece Oldbeard databook says Oldbeard was the strongest pirate Kaido has feats statement potrayal narrative over shanks
@@abdulrisark4782 Beating Mihawk isn't Shanks' dream and I'm talking about Zoro who wants the title more. After seeing those feats what Shanks did... No wonder why Mihawk avoided facing him. Plus, we don't know who's victorious or the context in those clashes. But for me... I'm seeing Shank stronger while Mihawk is the better swordsman.
I believe he is ,I think he's haki strong like Roger but nerfed because he lost an arm , Shanks would be pirate king if he had both arms, I believe Shanks haki increased more after the fights with Mihawk which would put him above Mihawk in an all out battle to death no rules
he definitely is!100% sure BB would cheat or do some hostage tactics to beat shanks and his crew. if marco joined shanks as support the chances of bb beating shanks is lower even if he cheats
zage happy cinco de mayo Though we see more of Dragon Shanks will always and forever be the strongest, most powerful character ever of all time in the history of One Piece #1. #2 dragon for Now. i bet shanks in Marine Ford. Would cut, slice, magma, punk and half. Pre time skip post time skip. Also, I bet Shanks can also manifest a new left arm made entirely out of HAKI. What do you guys think? he is the God of haki after all all three types of advanced forms
@@rdrummer2there are no reasons for mihawk to be stronger, shanks wins extreme diff. Titles mean nothing. Old whitebeard was world's strongest man, still he was said to be weaker than marineford garp, see the logic? Now don't say "he was sick". Cuz in that sense he in present is weaker than shanks. And potrayal and feats wise shanks stands out.
We also have to consider Imu : if the Five Elders have strong Haki, and even Conqueror's Haki for some of them, then Imu is almost guaranteed to be a top tier.
Mihawk yes Lakainu no he scared of the scabbards😂 A full powered healed 9 scabbards low diff all the ladmirals A few injured weakened of the weakest scabbards Delt with Greenbitch along with an 8 year old
@@toms6291 The goresei were overhyped. The admirals are stated to be the highest military might they had and have the feats to prove it. Saturn got no diff by Gear 5th Luffy and Sanji vibe check the old sword geezer. The only ones capable of being stronger than Shanks at this point in the series is Dragon, Mihawk, Akainu, and Blackbeard.
@@vovoty5904he's not wrong you gross admiral fan 😡😡 But to be fair the scabbards are rumoured to have fought vista so it can't be helped that Lakainu was scared.
Shanks is my favorite one piece character. I love this man. I gotta say though, I doubt he is the “strongest” at least in the classical sense. His character is like Luffy imo (fitting I know). His strength comes from his ability to bring out the best in his crew. Not to say either of them are weak. I just think that their true potential would never be reached in a classic 1v1 situation.
In my opinion, after timeskip there was only one character that was stronger than Shanks currently alive in the verse and that was Kaido. However Shanks has to be extremely relative to Kaido because he stopped him from Marineford. Now that Kaido is gone, I think Shanks is the strongest charcter in the verse that are scale-able (with feats) not including Imu.
I legit believe that he is as strong as whitebeard and kaido. Probably stronger. Once we finally see it, everyone is going to feel so dumb downplaying him even a little bit
Then he should have just killed kaido. Avenging oden and free wano. He also let someone as dangerous as blackbeard walk away from marineford. Ace went to wano to avenge oden but shanks didn't?
About future sight you got everything wrong luffy future sight fir what we know of is only 1 second just cuz luffy knows how to use future sight doesn't mean he increased its time katakuri is 3 seconds and 7 seconds more is definitely a very big gap shanks will see more than what katakuri will in a fight and get hit easier.
It’s never been stated (as far as I’m aware) on how far Katakuri can see with Future Sight. If you know when this was stated please provide the source. Maybe I should have been more clearly but it was conjecture on my part about how far Katakuri saw during the Wedding. I did say IF Katakuri can see up to 10 seconds then Shanks feat wouldn’t be as impressive.
@@zagessj yeah your right but what sense does it make for oda to hype up shanks observation haki like that if katakuri someone we already seen had better future sight? Shanks has been hyped up to be the best haki user so it makes no sense for katakuri to be any where on his level in any form of haki. Idk just my opinion
Great video, both Shanks and Mihawk are really interesting characters and i can't wait to learn more about them. I honestly always thought of Shanks and Mihawk as mostly equals to each other even now i know both of there fans would hang me for daring to say that but i honestly don't care that just my opinion. While i do think both of them are some of the strongest in the verse there are three characters i would personally put above them which are Dragon, Blackbeard and Imu.
The fact that Shanks got clapped by Blackbeard before he had devilfruits and while on guard, and used to get farmed by Mihawk, automatically disqualifies him from being the strongest.
Shanks became a yonko 4 years after losing his arm Not 6 He did not become a yonko by talking and negotiating He faced a lot of foes And relearned His sword and Increased His haki Mihawk Doesn't care about him because his potential is nerfed Not his entire potential is gone Shanks can reach most of his potential But mihawk wanted the full thing to be entertained for a little while However most of his potential is still higher than everyone roger Wb kaido luffy But mihawk is above all of that
Mihawk isn’t that strong bro he’s weaker than roger and whitebeard the way people talk about Mihawk tells the audience he is not THAT guy he’s just pretty strong
I like how Mihawk's claim to fame is just his Title and no actual feats to back any of that up. The only Noteworthy Mihawk feats in the Story are Him Destroying Don Kreig's Armada and Stalling Vista. But still Mihawk is Stronger than Prime Whitebeard and Even Roger according to some Geniuses🤣🤣🤣
As of right now, Luffy is the strongest creature and has the best feats in the verse. Until Shanks or anyone else can clap BOTH Saturn and Kizaru at the same time, and summon the other elders, they're not worth being compared to Luffy. Monkey D. Luffy >>>>>> your favorite character
@solardxgamer1692 If it was that easy then Rob Lucci with the rest of Cp0 plus the seraphims should've been more than enough right? Let alone an admiral and one elder...
Bro doesn't know what a Shonen is, if luffy was already the strongest the manga would have been finished, what do you think that the final fight will be a 10v1? BB, imu, akainu, mihawk, shanks, Aokiji they are all can beat luffy in a 1v1 right now. And no, luffy wasn't clapping kizaru and saturn at the same time, kizaru is holding back since the beginning and to saturn luffy literally did nothing since all gorosei can recover, he even got hurt himself attacking one of them. Get that boy to fight more than 10 minutes then we can compare him to the top.
@@solardxgamer1692 yeah but luffy was in the way. Saturn could have done it himself but he summoned all 5 meaning they need all 5 to go pass a yonko crew to end the message
It’s actually not ridiculous to state that shank is possibly stronger than prime whitebeard or Roger 😂💀💀….its a new era the old era will be surpassed sooner or later
That implication only applies for luffy’s generation. Shanks needed a balanced crew to make up for his lost arm, plus he’s only been a yonko for only 6 years that’s quite underwhelming 😂 Comparing shanks and luffy age for age, and the times they started their journey is a land slide in luffy’s favour. He’s done way more than shanks could ever dream of doing in 2 years 😅 So it’s quite clear that luffy’s generation are the ones that were being spoken about. Luffy, law, zoro, Kidd, Momo, Yamato, sabo, Koby(not pirates of course but you get the picture) etc.. these guys are well on their way to that type of legendary status
Databooks don’t matter. The statement of Whitebeard Pirates being the strongest is contradictory to the Red Hair Pirates being stated to have the highest average bounty and best balance of any crew. So I think that statement was just hyperbole to remind readers the WB Pirates were no joke. I don’t think the portrayal of when the crew shows up was that they just showed up to lose. It was never stated they ended the war because they achieved their goal they (the Marines) stopped because they were intimidated. Akainu in particular was sweating buckets and Shanks has already shown he can literally low diff Admirals. Saying the WB Pirates couldn’t defeat the Marines isn’t really accurate either Whitebeard nerfed which caused a lot of issues Shanks is by far stronger than Kaido Oda just wrote himself into a corner the only explanation I can think of is he knocked Kaido into the ocean. It’s also pretty obvious what the author is trying to depict when Shanks and Green Bull it wouldn’t make a difference if he knew it was coming and what about afterwards he should be able to focus up by that logic. Jozu’s words likely just mean prepared as in strong enough as there’s no moment once in the series this was emphasized. Also you have to ask how is one not prepared for king’s in the first place? Yamato has it and he wasn’t affected by her will and it’s obvious if Luffy just shot a random blast he wouldn’t freak out
RHP having the highest average bounty doesn’t mean they’re the strongest and we know they have a smaller crew which would help their averages. Regardless the narrator itself said WBP were the strongest crew at the time.
@@zagessj Yes but Benn, Roux, and Yasopp were mentioned by name. There’s inconsistencies throughout OP if this was any other stronger we could just take it at face value. If we get Benn’s bounty and it’s lower than Marco’s sure but I really don’t think that’s gonna happen. If the Red Hair Pirates are the Straw Hats’ final opponents for the One Piece that would also make them more powerful even if Zoro is fighting Mihawk at the time Sanji will have defeated opponents above the Admirals. Marco Ace Jozu Vista can’t be any stronger than an Admiral because we know for a fact they’re all losing to Akainu who took 10 days to defeat Aokiji. Many claim Aokiji is an outlier but there’s no reason to think Kizaru is any different. Kizaru was clean at the end of MF Aokiji was marked up. Kizaru got matched against Marco, Aokiji Jozu. Usually when they get matched up like that it’s symbolizing hierarchy
All things about Kaido are based on a lie. If he considers someone like Oden a top top tier, which he absolutely isn't, people like Mihawk and Shanks mid dif him. Because none in their right mind would say that Oden is nothing more than low-mid dif for Mihawk and Shanks. also Shanks being on whitebeard lvl is ridiculous? Why lmao?
@@tunnelvision7906Enel was a dumb bitch who didn't even know what gum is, kaido wasn't trying the whole battle of onigahsima and fought like 15 people, even when luffy used bajarang gun kaido could have easily dodge it but instead he decided to clash.
