Forum:Who will battle Shanks, Luffy, the captain, or Zoro, the swordsman?

Who is going to go 1 on 1 against Shanks?

We all know from the start that Luffy aspires to get stronger than Shanks and defeat his crew, but who will be the one from the Straw Hat Pirates to go 1 on 1 against Shanks? Is it the captain who has always wants to defeat Shanks from the time the straw hat was given to him, or the swordsman who's ultimate goal is to be the best swordsman in the world, but to do that he has to defeat the rival of Dracule Mihawk, who is the official swordsman of the four most dangerous pirates in the world, which kind of means that he is almost, or as strong as Mihawk.

Dragonlord00X 14:38, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Who else but Luffy? I let go and fall deeper. This will be the end of me. 15:16, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

What makes you think they will fight at all? They're friends, remember. Luffy has no reason to fight Shanks or anyone on his crew. That goes double for Usopp pointlessly attacking his own father. 15:24, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

I think they might just have a spar instead of a real fight just to see where they level up against the RH pirates. like for luffy it might just be a little battle and for usopp i could be target practice lol with his dad, and the others could do something too like a cooking battle hahahaha 50.92.124.22 18:41, May 13, 2012 (UTC)

Zoro will definitely challenge Shanks, without a second thought, just as he did when he first met Mehawk. He wants to fight strong swordsmen and Shanks fits that requirement. The fact that Shanks is Luffy's friend does not matter to him in the least. He warned Luffy not to get in his way when he agreed to become part of Luffy's crew (and later found out that he was the only crew member). Luffy will have to let Shanks and Zorro fight and just hope that they agree not to kill each other.

^ You are totally wrong...

Am I? I wanted to be fair before I made a reply so I checked the manga to make sure my memory was still accurate. Yep...It was as I remembered. Sorry guy, but I'm totally right on this one. Here's the manga page that spells it out: Chapter 6, pages 6 and 7. Zorro will definitely challenge Shanks if they meet and Luffy has agreed to not stand in his way.

^Okay, now you’re causing me to write; I will try to make it worthwhile. First, that was in the beginning of the series, a lot has happened since chapter 1-10 of One Piece – maybe you should catch up. For example, during the Thriller Bark Arc what did Zoro do? Was he willing to sacrifice himself to save Luffy – yes! Now going to the Alabasta Arc, Zoro was told to save Smoker, correct? This shows that Zoro will protect Luffy even if that means giving his life; in addition, this also means that Zoro will listen to Luffy no matter what the command is – I could go on but I don’t want to, hopefully you can read between the lines. All this shows is that Zoro has the highest amount of respect for Luffy; why would someone who has a large amount of respect for Luffy attack his hero?