User blog comment:Ranger94/Shankses role in One Piece/@comment-24287735-20150815124043/@comment-34981281-20150815135625

I hate when people act like Luffy vs Shanks in inevitable. You know, maybe if this were Dragon Ball Z, but it's One Piece. It's an adventure story, not a fighter, and Luffy just has to surpass Shanks as a pirate, done so by finding the treasure and being named Pirate King. Luffy hardly ever fights when 1) he isn't pissed off at the opponent and 2) the opponent is a straight-up swordsman.