User blog comment:Luffayking12/Shanks DF ?????????/@comment-3425840-20120109013135

I don't understand why I was mentioned? Did I ever argue about Shanks' powers with anyone? I don't remember. Well since I did not, here is the chance of arguing. Shank's treasures swimming. He told Luffy more than once that how important swimming was for a pirate. I doubt we will take a devil fruit and lose the ability to swim. Then again since he had lost his his arm, he might have done it to make up for his strength loss, but, that has nothing to do with tattoos as NWW explained. As for power I think if a olddude like Rayleigh is powerful enough with out a devil fruit then Shanks can also be the same.