Talk:Red-Haired Shanks Emperor/@comment-31369421-20180220205456/@comment-10336-20180411124944

Poor Shanks. One of the 4 Emperors, yet even his SE is still competing for the 'weakest legend ever'. Granted, his 6 was better than Sabo (at least), and had some limited use for speedruns/PSY-only battles.

His SE is a bit better as captain, and sub, but the big problem is that meta is moving away from one color teams. He was a very niche legend before and remains one after SE. Perhaps even more so, because his CA is still not good enough to clear tough content, and his special is so niche. And the recent crop of RRs gave us quite a few units that reduce DEF=0 at good CD too, making him even more not needed.

And he doesn't fit that well on Vinsmoke team because he is not a Powerhouse...

He was released two months after G4, and it is hard to imagine when you'd use 6+ Shanks if you could use 6+ Luffy instead.

Bandai failed with this one AGAIN, which is disappointing. They fixed Sabo who went from useless to quite good, and anyway, 6 Sabo can be kind of dismissed as 'early days mistake'. Shanks 6+ is not an early day mistake, he is the worst 6+, and Bandai shouldn't be getting 6+ that wrong.