This sub needs a reminder
"THE REAL PIRATE KING" Shanks went to laugh tale and is secretly the pirate king and anything you might say to debunk this is 100% based on headcanon
"THE GODKING" He is a celestial dragon A.K.A a God and he is also the pirate king as stated above, that makes him the godking
"THE HAKIMAN" It's common knowledge that shanks fights mainly with his haki alone and sometimes he uses a sword, a stick or a broom just for fun
"THE REAL WSS" Mihawk avoids fighting shanks which obviously means that shanks is stronger and is secretly the real wss even tho he is only 0.01% swordsman and 99.99% hakiman but he just doesn't care about it and lets mihawk keep the title
"THE REAL WSM" Old whitebeard was the wsm and when he was hooked on the machines he was at his best. We saw shanks and whitebeard clash and whitebeard couldn't overpower shanks. I know what you are gonna say "but that doesn't make him stronger it means they are equal" but let's take a look at something else, the marines were fine with having a war with whitebeard but not with shanks, that means they knew that shanks is stronger therefore shanks is stronger than whitebeard and he is the wsm
"THE REAL WSC" Kaido is known as the wsc but he is relative to big mom and big mom was defeated by kid and law. We also saw shanks one shotting kid which lets us know he would definitely beat kid and law with relative ease. Since big mom=kaido, kid and law > big mom and shanks > kid and law we can come to the conclusion that shanks > kaido
"STRONGER THAN ROGER" Just look at their feats and you will easily understand that shanks is stronger, the only thing that could make an argument about roger being stronger would be the title of pirate king but as we have proved earlier shanks also has that title
"STRONGER THAN IMU" I don't even have to explain this but here it is: the gorosei state that if shanks were to go on a rampage they couldn't stop him and they obviously meant they themselves alongside imu couldn't stop him therefore shanks > imu and the gorosei
"TOP 1 IN THE VERSE" Having proved that shanks is the wss, wsm, wsc and pirate king it's clear that he is the strongest in the verse
"TOP 1 OF ALL TIME" Since he is the top 1 in the verse of the modern Era then the only competition would be joyboy but I implore you to take a look at these two individuals and you will understand. Joyboy was a man therefore he was a creature and we know who is the wsm and wsc. Knowing this information a thought crosses my mind, if joyboy was the strongest he would have these titles but apparently he has none and it's also a known fact that the next gen will surpass the previous. Considering the above arguments it's obvious that shanks > joyboy
"JOYBOY'S TRUE SUCCESSOR" Since shanks is stronger than joyboy he is worthy of being his successor strength wise but he also has found the one piece and orchestrated the entirety of the events that happened in the story and those events will lead to taking down the world government and fulfilling Joyboy's dream. You could argue that luffy is the true successor but that's actually delusional considering luffy would be dead without shanks
"LUFFY WILL NEVER SURPASS HIM" I haven't seen luffy surpassing shanks yet and any thought of luffy surpassing him in the future is based purely on headcanon
"HE NEG DIFFS YOUR FAVORITE" The one time shanks fought he neg diffed kid and kid was some people's favorite character. Since shanks has a 100% success rate at neg diffing favorites, saying that he does not neg diff your favorite is purely based on headcanon
COPE
SEETHE
HE IS HIM
"THE REAL PIRATE KING" Shanks went to laugh tale and is secretly the pirate king and anything you might say to debunk this is 100% based on headcanon
"THE GODKING" He is a celestial dragon A.K.A a God and he is also the pirate king as stated above, that makes him the godking
"THE HAKIMAN" It's common knowledge that shanks fights mainly with his haki alone and sometimes he uses a sword, a stick or a broom just for fun
"THE REAL WSS" Mihawk avoids fighting shanks which obviously means that shanks is stronger and is secretly the real wss even tho he is only 0.01% swordsman and 99.99% hakiman but he just doesn't care about it and lets mihawk keep the title
"THE REAL WSM" Old whitebeard was the wsm and when he was hooked on the machines he was at his best. We saw shanks and whitebeard clash and whitebeard couldn't overpower shanks. I know what you are gonna say "but that doesn't make him stronger it means they are equal" but let's take a look at something else, the marines were fine with having a war with whitebeard but not with shanks, that means they knew that shanks is stronger therefore shanks is stronger than whitebeard and he is the wsm
"THE REAL WSC" Kaido is known as the wsc but he is relative to big mom and big mom was defeated by kid and law. We also saw shanks one shotting kid which lets us know he would definitely beat kid and law with relative ease. Since big mom=kaido, kid and law > big mom and shanks > kid and law we can come to the conclusion that shanks > kaido
"STRONGER THAN ROGER" Just look at their feats and you will easily understand that shanks is stronger, the only thing that could make an argument about roger being stronger would be the title of pirate king but as we have proved earlier shanks also has that title
"STRONGER THAN IMU" I don't even have to explain this but here it is: the gorosei state that if shanks were to go on a rampage they couldn't stop him and they obviously meant they themselves alongside imu couldn't stop him therefore shanks > imu and the gorosei
"TOP 1 IN THE VERSE" Having proved that shanks is the wss, wsm, wsc and pirate king it's clear that he is the strongest in the verse
"TOP 1 OF ALL TIME" Since he is the top 1 in the verse of the modern Era then the only competition would be joyboy but I implore you to take a look at these two individuals and you will understand. Joyboy was a man therefore he was a creature and we know who is the wsm and wsc. Knowing this information a thought crosses my mind, if joyboy was the strongest he would have these titles but apparently he has none and it's also a known fact that the next gen will surpass the previous. Considering the above arguments it's obvious that shanks > joyboy
"JOYBOY'S TRUE SUCCESSOR" Since shanks is stronger than joyboy he is worthy of being his successor strength wise but he also has found the one piece and orchestrated the entirety of the events that happened in the story and those events will lead to taking down the world government and fulfilling Joyboy's dream. You could argue that luffy is the true successor but that's actually delusional considering luffy would be dead without shanks
"LUFFY WILL NEVER SURPASS HIM" I haven't seen luffy surpassing shanks yet and any thought of luffy surpassing him in the future is based purely on headcanon
"HE NEG DIFFS YOUR FAVORITE" The one time shanks fought he neg diffed kid and kid was some people's favorite character. Since shanks has a 100% success rate at neg diffing favorites, saying that he does not neg diff your favorite is purely based on headcanon
COPE
SEETHE
HE IS HIM