@gotta<3OP:
They fought like 10 years ago .-. before Shanks lost an arm. I bet Shanks won some times, Mihawk won others. It just happened that Mihawk won the last. No one was saying "oh those times where you always lost to mihawk" ….
I say that the Shanks of today is not interested in holding such a title as 'the world strongest swordsman'
Like I said before. Your argument is how Times have changed.
Until We see a the difference of that Strength they've gained as Individuals we don't know if Shanks is stronger.
Mihawk is Stronger(than Shanks) unless Shown otherwise regardless of how long it's been. Being a Yonkou doesn't give the Individual Captain the Title of the Strongest. Which Mihawk currently Holds.
I'll Clearify myself further since you might be misunderstanding. Just because Mihawk holds the title of the Greatest Swordsman doesn't mean he has no Equal. Shanks and Mihawk fought before and their duals became legendary. Their fights are epic like that of Akainu and Aoikiji. If they fought again could Shanks win, Sure… but it would be a Deadly close battle. Thats why they are Rivals and Equals, With Mihawk Holding the Title of the Strongest Currently. I don't care if you think Shanks is Stronger, as long as you acknowlegde that they are Individual Equal Fighters than we have a base to judge Shanks strength.
Your Basing the Strength of Shanks around a Single attack he exchanged with WB and Akainu + him Being a Yonkou.
While Am basing his Strength with his Actual Fights he had + Around His Equal counterpart Mihawk.
@gotta<3OP:
Who said so? Collected power? Your just taking that up your ass.
If you think Being a Yonkou isn't about Support and Allies than your an idiot. A Single person By himself cannot become a Yonkou even if his the Strongest person in the World. Thats why WB had two Titles. 1 that's given to someone who has Vast Powerful Allies and Support "Yonkou" and 2nd "The Worlds Strongest Man" which is an individual based Title.
@gotta<3OP:
But Shanks has the smalles crew (only one boat). That would mean the individual power, including his own, is higher than the other Yonkou's, otherwise he would be a weaker Yonkou, and balance would be broken.
Does Shanks have Allies in the New world the Size of WB, needs to be seen. We don't know that yet. And even if he doesn't His Crew makes up for it. I also Agree that His Higher than the other 2 Yonkou not including WB. It was also never said that All Yonkou are Equal. They are the most Powerful Pirates who Rule the New World like Emperors. Their Strength especially the Individual Captains may Vary Greatly like that of the Shichibukai. WB was By far the most powerful of them. He was called the God of the Sea. He didn't have a desire to wipe out his competition like the rest of the pirates.
@gotta<3OP:
If Shanks was weaker than an Admiral is crew would cause no threat to the Whitebeard Pirates. We all saw how whitebeard dealt with Admirals. Yonkou's being weaker than Admiral's also misses another point, the marines fear the Yonkou. If they had 4 fighters stronger than one, they would've no reason to do so. The probability of Yonkou's joining foreces is not high, and Akainu has an offensive position against pirates. I doubt he wouldn't have tried to destroy them.
Agains let me clearify myself further. Shanks and Admirals are Roughly Equals in my opinion, With a Fight that would last as long as Akainu vs. Aoikiji with ME believing an Admiral having the edge in the end Due their feats. You can Believe Shanks would win and I can't decide that for you. However, I come to these conclusion Due to Compareing and contrasting with Characters that Shanks has fought with. People who Shanks is being compared to Openly admit WB is head of them and are being Beaten like their kids… Whitebeard the World Strongest man had a tough Time takeing down 1 of them who almost killed him as well. I do not See Shanks Winning against such a man, Even if he can it will be a battle which would leave both sides permently handicaped forever.
The Marines Fear Luffy as well, his no Yonkou.... The Marines Fear many pirates, The Yonkou are the most powerful of them. They claimed countries, obviously they would fear them. That doesn't mean They are strong enough to Take down an Admiral who are the Back bone of the Navy.
Shanks Wasn't a Threat to the WB Pirates.... Marco Says Shanks wouldn't do anything stupid to the Oldman. WB says his 100 years too early to be addressing him through a messenger. Shanks went to WB to show that his Serious about the Threat of BLackbeard. His asking WB leave the matter to Him or do it yourself, Ace isn't Strong enough. Obviously Shanks fails.
"7Warlords+Marines Counter 4Yonkou"
The Shichibukai All 7 on the Marines Side + Marines To Counter All 4 Yonkou" Counter does not mean to Defeat All 4 at Once or Even Take on All 4 To a Stalemate. Counter Can be Interpreted in many different ways than.
Some of you were saying if the WG is this powerful than the Yonkou wouldn't Exist, However they can dwell in territories where the WG has NO AUTHORITY The New World. The New World pretty much Belongs to the Yonkou.
The Yonkou aren't the only threat to the WG, there is a more threatening force to the WG who is Dragon/Revolutionaries.
Than there are Thousands of Pirates Fodders and Hundreds of Worthy and capable and Threatening Pirates and a Handful of Serious contenders who may be capable of giving a Yonkou a tough time and in the near future even take such a title.
The World government has to be capable of dealing with all of this.They have to be as powerful as I'm suggesting in order for them to stabilize the world from chaos.Also they cannot leave some of the post they have set up in the world or else Pirates or Revolutionaries will take advantage and take over.
The Marines cannot simply send their entire force or even half to deal with the 1 or 2 yonkou in the New World when they have so much to look after.
Perfect Example is Whitebeard. They brought him out instead of going in.
If they aren't at least as strong as this "The Shichibukai All 7 on the Marines Side + Marines To Counter All 4 Yonkou", than the WG wouldn't exist.
The Yonkou Are Extremely Overestimated especially as Individuals who's not Whitebeard and The Marines and Shichibukai are Extremely underestimated.
@gotta<3OP:
Hmmm, would he be RAPED from all sides? No, jesus… He wouldn't have stopped the war, but he wouldn't be raped. Crocodile had no support most of the war and he did quite well... The same for Boa Hancock to a degree. Shanks wouldn't be able to stop the war like that, but he wouldn't be 'raped'.
What do you think would have happend if Shanks Showed up alone and the Battle went on. In the end the Navy would win. Blackbeard+ his crew were Being held back by Sengoku and garp alone. Akainu was fighting the all the WB Commanders at Once. The fodders pirates are being Slaughtered by the Navy,And than you have Shanks show up alone. What do you think will be Shanks Fate??? Shanks Comes in alone Saying he wants to end the war. Kizaru and Aoikiji rape him…... Seriously Shanks has no chance coming in alone. All the Pirates their would have been raped(Including Croc, Luffy, Ivanko, Marco.. Everyone) had Shanks not showed up with his CREW.
Akainu was Injured and Fighting another Yonkou(Him+His Crew) isn't the smartest thing to do. Akainu is shown to be Really cunning. His not stupid enough to risk attacking Shanks and forcing an all out battle with another Yonkou in their Current state. Mihawk + the Shichibukai were leaving. They had Agreed to fight only WB. Attacking Shanks would be Retarded.
The part about Blackbeard being more injured than Akainu… You've got to be kidding. He had just shown up to the war and he only took 3 hits. Akainu was Hit 2 Massive blows by WB. and many other hits from Marco, Vista, and WB commanders.