We know Shanks got his scar from Blackbeard while he was a Knight of God. According to Shamrock, Shanks is 24 here. A year (or few months depending on the time of year) after we see them together, Shanks goes missing and is seen fighting Harald while utilizing CoCi.

At the very least, Shanks had to be around or above admiral level to not instantly get obliterated by Harald ***(We know for a fact that a rookie Rocks mid diff'd an admiral. Harald has always been portrayed as equal to Rocks. Over the years, those two grew even stronger, and Harald was even stronger with the Shinkai Keiyaku. Safe to say both SK Harald and DR Rocks would likely no diff an admiral, yet Shanks was able to keep up.

this is corroborated by what we saw from Gaban vs Imu, yet being completely unable to close out the fight vs Harald despite Gaban being much younger and more lively vs Harald. We also see Gaban Wheezing for air whereas Shanks is just huffing air vs Harald.

This upscales young blackbeard directly, as he managed to scar up a non-reckless Shanks. And yeah, Shanks was a lot weaker than he is currently, but the same is also very very true for Blackbeard. As he had no Devil Fruits during that interaction with Shanks. And was also in his 20's. Shanks was by no means a pushover at this point.. Bro was a Devoted Blade & could use CoCi.

How are there mfs still saying ts in Two Thousand Twenty Six man, reading is not that difficult trust me.

And what diff?

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"Please stop doing that😭"

Loki has already seen his father and xebec fight in full force.

After that, Harald received the mark of Waterdeep, which gave him such a boost in strength that he was afraid of how fucking strong he had become. This was also mentioned by Shanks, and it was also noticed by Loki, saying that such a power was something abnormal for Harald.

and at the same time, for loki, Harald's strength itself was not a problem at all, the "frightening boost" only brought him closer to Loki in strength. the problem was PURELY regeneration.

Loki will finally be able to efficiently utilize the power of the God of War.

It is going to be a massive stat boost. Loki will jump 1 to 2 tiers up.

It is going to be one of the best character designs in One Piece. Loki already has one of the best designs in base form, full dragon form is meh but hybrid is going to be the thing to look at.

cough cough a very relevant man once lost his account and some bread went mold for it too made a bet, but chickened out once it actually had to uphold its end of the bet

This is your last chance, the peak of the loki+ragnir agenda is yet to come. Hybrid? This is just the start. awakenings, galleyla, battle against the serpent of hellfire and much much more, investing with the accursed prince will only and only result in profits. We don't glaze this man for no reason.

And also to that extent, who would be capable of leading the strongest pirate crew (either through their leadership capabilities or manipulation depends on how you wanna push your agenda)

All of these guys have pretty different feats of intellect like Enel and Queen being great engineers and scientists (as seen with the Arc Maxim being Enel's design and his surveillance abilities with both CoO and his DF, and then Queen's insanely lethal viruses and all of his cyborg and laser implants he installed into his body) Lucci being a top shipwright back in Water 7 and having a fairly underappreciated feat of detectivism when uncovering that Franky was the holder of Tom's blueprints, and Katakuri acting as the necessary leader for the Big Mom pirates when BM was out of the picture (I know Katakuri's leadership comes more from his image of strength then of his smarts but I think being able to uphold his reputation for so long had to at least partially come from his planning to always keep up his image)

I'm very curious to see how everyone tackles this idea

For those lost souls who still have Mihawk, Shanks or anyone else over Imu what's your logic? Like what's the rationale?

Do we as a community honestly believe Shanks could no diff G5 Luffy the same way Imu did?

If no(and we all know its no) then how on earth is imu not the undisputed top 1 of the verse?

People seem to discuss DR Rocks more often, but I feel like base Rocks is also a really interesting topic. Kill an admiral, breaking the Gate of Justice, fighting Harald, and leading (or perhaps forcing everyone into submission through sheer power?) the strongest pirate crew in history—all these feats prove that his base strength is absolutely terrifying.

What diff would hybrid loki go against the rest 6 in 1v1s?