User blog comment:Marijuanna/Bad ass theory about how to get to Laftel/@comment-4783583-20120205025503/@comment-3177945-20120205185248

Yehh, Raftel, my bad. I have the same feeling as you about the last island before raftel, but I do think luffy will meet Blackbeard and not shanks, and by that time Blackbeard will have defeated Shanks already. No matter how awsome a Luffy x Shanks fight would be, they are still friends, it would lack the excitement of a final battle with a true villain