When did I ever say sniper? A gun user and a sniper are not the same thing at all but I wouldn't expect someone who uses reductionary argument tactics to understand or acknowledge that. Also Shanks has 1 sniper we know of, Yasopp, Roo and Beckman weren't shown or portrayed as snipers.
Everybody is a Shanks fan but I don't care that much about him.
Shooter/Sniper Or however you call it; The point still stands. Saying Shanks is proficient at using gun just because he happened to have multiple people who prefer to use gun is beyond ridiculous. That aside, you're fooling yourself if you seriously believe changing fighting style would actually change the result. Swordsmanship is still his art of expertise, which means, the best of his attacks lies within his swordsmanship. So, if he can't pull a victory with his strongest fighting form, then he's not winning with a supplementary method.
What are you talking about Vista doesn't have a DF that's been mentioned. We've seen Shanks clash like what 2-3 times but I applaud your guys dedication to the "fact" that means he only fights with swords, we have no idea how Shanks fights because we've never actually seen him fight so as of now your doing as much speculation about his fighting style and abilities as I am. Who's to say for certain that the sword isn't something he uses for the average fight then when things gets serious he has a stronger style? Sabo has it now, he has his Mera Mera but if he comes across an opponent who pushes his capabilities with the MMnM he can bust out his Dragon Style.
Kiado is the strongest beast correct? But won't the alliance take him down?
You need to learn arithimetic
Well I agree it depends on the author
If I could rep you more I would, the fact that Shanks would get beat by the WSS just because he carries / uses a sword is ridiculous, it's not like he's a 1 trick pony like Mihawk where we're pretty sure all he uses is his sword, which fair enough he might beat Shanks purely in a sword fight after losing his arm, but for some reason people think that that's exactly how the fight would go between them, as if Shanks has no other means of fighting which is ridiculous.
The very first time we see his badassary... He fends of the sea beast with just a look, soon to be conquerors.. If he was such a fabled who was able to go toe to toe with Mihawk who soon gained the title of WSS, then why would he not use his sword as a range attack? Surely he'd be bale to, the first time we see Mihawk he's able to cut that huge ship in half with ease, Shanks surely would have been able to do the same back then... But of course Oda did it for the sake of setting up the story between Luffy and Shanks, because at the end of the day it's him that decides and he decided that Shanks had to lose an arm just so that Mihawk could be the WSS
It's simple, you guys just have a feeling that Shanks packs more than just a Sword... NOTHING MORE, I said it NOTHING MORE. Since you have no disproof against Mihawk > any swordsman. You're feeling Shanks can't be just a swordsman only with nothing to prove that he is not a swordsman only :|
Shanks is a swordsman at the end of the day. He can have all the tricks and usages as he wants, he's still portrayed as a swordsman, and that makes him weaker than Mihawk until proven otherwise. No wonder is saying that Shanks fights using ONLY his sword, but it is his primary means of combat. Therefore, he falls into the category of swordsmen which Mihawk is at the top of.
The fact that Kaku was a martial artist, assassin, DF user, and swordsman all at once should be enough to settle this nonsense.
No one's saying Shanks isn't a swordsman or that he wouldn't lose in a swordfight against Mihawk, I'm saying there's a chance he can overcome Mihawks' sword abilities with another style of fighting whether it be hands or gun or haki and win the fight while losing the swordfight. If Mihawk is an S in swords and Shanks is an A but Shanks is an S in hands and Mihawk is a B then Shanks could still pull off a victory in the fight. There's multiple forms of fighting it's not impossible to have a fighting style that focuses on taking on armed opponents while being unarmed.
@bold, but we don't know what his primary fighting style is for sure we can only guess based on the few brief clashes we saw, which iirc Shanks was always defending not attacking. Also I never said he wasn't a swordsman I said that just because he's a swordsman doesn't mean he doesn't have other fighting styles he could use, and use to get a victory over swordsmen including Mihawk.
Nope. Mihawk being the World's Strongest Swordsman doesn't mean he's the best at swordsmanship. It means of every person in the category of swordsman, he's the overall strongest one. And that includes Shanks. So while Shanks might have a martial art or a DF ability or a Haki trick that he can use better than a sword, for all intents and purposes so far in the series, he's a swordsman, and that makes him weaker than Mihawk overall.
Two defenses and his sword rival(who just so happens to only use a sword) as I said we don't know his fighting style. We can presume based on evidence but we don't know anything until it happens. Shanks used his sword for defense true, but the only offense we've seen from him(way back in chapter 1) was him running off that sea beast with his haki. That's all I'm saying, is it likely Shanks' primary is his sword absolutely, Is it possible he ONLY uses a sword, sure it's possible but we don't and can't know as a fact like your acting.
Defensive??? This is hypocritical, if you see Haki on Shanks and assume he is more than a swordsman why say Mihawk is only a Sword's man when he scared the Humandrills in the same manner Shanks scared the Sea king?
Because Mihawk has never shown CoQ Haki and I'm of the mind that it will be able to be used in a physical matter to some degree. Mihawk's personality also seems to have him more honor bound than Shanks in the sense I could see Shanks abandoning his primary weapon if it meant he could get an edge whereas I couldn't see Mihawk dropping his sword for anything similar to how I couldn't see Zoro using anything other than a sword(or some form of stick in a sword manner) Mihawk seems more stuck in his ways whereas Shanks seems flexible which leads me to believe he doesn't solely rely on his sword.
I can agree that we can't be certain about swordsmanship being his primary fighting style until when we get to learn more about Shanks. But it's rather obvious and logical to presume that his art of expertise lies within his swordsmanship, given the portrayal he received so far in the series. Strictly talking from what we know of him, Shanks can't be anything other than a swordsman. And it's completely irrelevant whether he has other other modes of fighting; He'd be beneath Mihawk as long as his most preferable fighting mode is swordsmanship.
