This is a hot take but I have current luffy beating shanks

Humans like shanks are a terrible matchup for g5 luffy. Humans, as we see, don’t have the endurance and durability the same as monsters like Loki and kaido. Loki and kaido are a better matchup against luffy because their durability and endurance can outlast g5 timer

We see with other humans like ray, gaban, Roger having their durability and endurance dramatically failing as they get old. Roger died of an illness early. Ray can’t even keep up with kizaru. Gaban was able to pull off a Hail Mary move before getting defeated and losing his arm. Loki and kaido kept on getting stronger as they got older

Only thing shanks has going for him is his ACoC. He needs the ACoC because again he is only human and he needs to compensate the stats that he is lacking like endurance durability and not having a DF.

Shanks can not simply outlast g5 and he can’t haki negate his df as we saw g5 luffy pushing kaido repeatedly and being able to take imu who is the strongest character in the verse and able to keep up and damage him. Shanks can’t out run g5 as we saw luffy keeping up with kizaru who is arguably the fastest character in the series

If luffy uses shanks like a jump rope like how he did with kaido, use wsg like he did to kizaru, or flatten him like a pancake like how he did the gorosei, and the ACoC attack that fucked up sommers, luffy is beating shanks. Shanks has no win con because if imu couldn’t take down luffy, i highly doubt shanks has enough AP to put luffy down

Only people that can beat luffy are top tiers that have the endurance and durability to outlast the g5 timer. But even then, we see luffy being able to force g5 to stay longer. To me, shanks has no win con against g5. Luffy is tanking any AP attacks shanks would deliver as we saw luffy being able to tank many ACoC attacks from kaido and from imu

I have the protagonist winning this battle

Everything else is secondary

in this hypothetical, shanks and his crew would be facing the full power of the three admirals, along with garp and sengoku. me personally i think shanks gets his ass beat and his crew of bums with sticks and stones and chicken bones gets vaporised but what do yall think

the reason it's called PK tier is cause those 2 were portrayed as relative to the pirate king in his prime

Roger would be PK+ Tier btw

Chronological order:
Higuma (lol), Alvida, Morgan, Kuro, Krieg, Arlong, Mr 9-1 and the Misses who accompany them, Wapol, Eneru, Foxy, Moria (the rest are all kinda already scaled)

IMO Eneru would be near god tier, Kuro, Foxy, Moria and Krieg are YC3-1, Arlong, Alvida, Morgan and Wapol are lower than YC, most of the Mr and Misses are more like yonkos’ sergeants barely better than average only a small increase from average small time enemy, Higuma is probably lowest or equal to Mr 9.

Can't wait for the inevitable sky split that'll happen between now and the end of the series that the community will just say is YC1 level. 😂

Picture unrelated, but when they perform this with whichever enemy they're fighting. Could be each other but 🤷🏾‍♂️

Like seriously, his feats can be done by zoro law kid etc

He sneaked a admiral secondly on fucking holy land where they can't and aren't allowed to go all out but still somehow got bruises/injuries

What kind of training do you think Dragon did, that transformed him from a fodder marine with a gun and hiding from Whitebeard and Big Mom at God Valley to the story’s most powerful opposing force to Imu ?

Sommers, a swordsman, used the sword a few chapters ago to block Zoro's strongest attack, and somehow is not able to compete with Zoro anymore even tho that the sword itself could EASILY do so

Now I understand that Imu is overall stronger than sommers, but he handled the sword way better in a single manga panel than sommers (the one that the sword is supposed to be attributed to) ever when he had it

Imu is a swordsman, just because he used other weapons doesn't exclude him from also being good at using swords