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Shanks is a Haki monster.. both him, and Rayleigh use sword in their fights, but they are not considered as a "swordman" like Mihawk.. out of your list.. I go with Shanks.
Second Strongest Swordsman in One Piece
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The term swordsman is relative in one piece. It's a freaking pirate theme almost everyone uses swords duh! As the term swordsman what qualifies as a swordsman the attitude,portrayal, title/label, or just using the sword without Haki? Either way they all use haki hence why there's different type of haki and classification. Just because you don't act like a badass swordsman or have that mentally or cool personality doesn't mean you're not a swordsman. Shanks and Rayleigh obviously are sword wielders and they obviously know how to use it. In other culture, mythology and even current swordsmanship the ultimate art of swordsmanship is not using a sword at all. A weapon is the extension of your body fact! so do you consider jedis swordsman?...since they don't use a traditional sword. Just to make it simple anyone using a sword is consider a swordsman because that's a fact u dont' have to act cool and mellow to be a swordsman. Dragon>Gorosei>Rayleigh (rusty/old, but for all intended purpose and overall experience etc)>Shanks>Blackbeard(if you include DF user)>Luffy's Grandpa( thought he's raw haki, but he does use a sword just rarely ever)>Mihawk>Shiryu>Vista>Zoro(obviously at the end he'll be on the top 5 strongest people not just swordsman)>Law. For specific classification of swordsman Gorosei>Mihawk>Shiryu>Vista>Zoro>Law. (dragon,shanks,rayleigh and other conquer's haki user wouldn't belong here for practical comparison).
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kmrasengan
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Law could only do that because his DF powers, not because of his swordsman skills and we haven't seen Zoro's limit, he barely showed us anything so right now i'll go with Shanks maybe, and people, if the manga say that mihawk is the strongest swordsman then he is, yeah Shanks may be stronger than him overral but what we're counting here is swordsman skills so don't put rayleigh or shanks above mihawk because they're not better than him with a sword.
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kmrasengan
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And also this, he just use a sword to combine with his DF powers. We haven't seen Law in a real swordsman fight.
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kmrasengan
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Shiryu? I tought about him, they said he was very dangerous but we haven't seen much of him and shanks has more hype, but i want to see Zoro vs Shiryu.
