User blog comment:Marijuanna/Shanks is the weakest Yonko/@comment-24850639-20160606142844

- Never heard one rumor that Shanks was the strongest

- Preventing Kaido from attacking Whitebeard is impressive regardless of what way you slice it. If he DID fight Kaido, he and his entire crew showed up without a scratch on them. If he DIDN'T fight Kaido, it speaks volumes that he was able to redirect a warmongerer like KAIDO without even drawing his sword.

- Stop saying Shanks doesn't have any subordinates, we know NOTHING about the structure of his crew outside of the group that visited Foosha Village. Even if we had proof that we didn't, it only makes it all the more impressive that he was able to stop the biggest war the world had ever seen without any.

- The title "Yonko" is only given after you achieve a certain level of INFLUENCE, not power necessarily. Influence applies to both territory AND subordinates. You can't achieve and maintain one without the other.

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with the orginal post, just saying lets be smarter about our reasoning here for discrediting him. The man's earned his stripes, stripes that we have not SEEN Kaido himself earn. We know Kaido has incredible durability, but we've seen nothing of his combat prowess, which is what I definitely take into account if you're going to call someone the "weakest". The only reason this opinion of Shanks is even circulating is because he's the last "good guy" of the Yonko and he doesn't go around picking fights like the others do.