What Would Happen If Luffy Joined Shanks Crew?

Yes, tell a story about Luffy training under Shanks for like 10 Years, then he gets homesick, decides to start his own crew after visiting fusha village for a bit, which just happens to coincide with his canon journey.

I couldn’t even imagine, Luffy’s too ambitious to not be a captain of his own crew

This man deserves a massive W for keeping Ussop alive AND making it make sense

Luffys whole style of fighting is infact inspired by snipery. Yes, he fights hand to hand, but because of his rubber abilities he literally shoots his fists at people. He says in the first chapter that his lunch is as powerful as a gun. He names most of his attacks after guns. So if anything he would have taken influence from Ben Beckman and yasopp and still become a sniper fist.

A fun theory of mine on why Shanks didn't want Luffy to join his crew was that he didn't want Garp on his ass trying to get his grandson back. Shanks wouldn't have the power or influence of a Yonko he has now back then.

Lucky Roux and Luffy will have an endless meat-eating competition! Edit: This was purely innocent and unintended😅

Garp: Where in the Godly ussop is my grandson

9:48 that's a cute cat you have there

What if shanks knew that Garp was luffys grandfather because Luffy would’ve said his full name is monkey D Luffy and there’s a really good chance that shanks could’ve known Garps full name. I wouldn’t want garp chasing after me because I took his grandson to make him a pirate 😂

The Luffy/Shanks backstory is a lot more interesting now that we know the true identify of Luffy's DF. Shanks left maybe the most important DF in existence in a (maybe) random kid on a (maybe) random island after stealing it from the WG. It's especially interesting since Shanks was close to Luffy's age (or maybe even a baby) when he was on Gold Roger's ship, and wouldn't have been a stranger to the concept of keeping Luffy around as a cabin boy. There are some cool things to learn about Shanks and his ideology in the future knowing those facts. Or maybe its as simple as not wanting heat from Garp, if he knew at the time Luffy was Garp's grandkid. Regardless, Shanks not just trying to take down Teach at marineford, parlaying with the Gorosei, knowing about the Nika fruit and going after it, being so focused on the new generation and then betting an arm on it... I'm so excited to actually learn what his deal is

4:31 shanks became so serious the claw mark switched eyes

Garp in the background watchin:LUFFY COME BACK HERE.I SHALL GIVE YOU THE FIST OF LOVE LUFFY!

I enjoy these 'what-if' stories. It's fun to theorize how events could have turned out.

Actually the Vinsomke only found out about Sanji because he became a famous pirate, so Sanji would still be around and Robin would have a good chance too if she keeps avoiding the World Gov, chopper and brook would should still be there but the most to least likely to not be able to join, would be Zoro then Nami or Jinbe depending on if he has a crew or not as well as if someone like ace with a connection to white Beard is captured or not and if luffy can convince Jinbe. Forgot about Franky, I hope CP9 doesn’t strike early and he should be good.

In my opinion, I believe that the real reason Shanks’ crew has zero devil fruit users is because the devil fruit users on Gol D. Roger’s crew got sick while nearing laugh tale and he needs all of his crew to face the dangers or just see the things that are on laugh tale

I love the cat in the background

DUDE! He played death’s whistle in the calm belt!!! That just made my day.

The reason Shanks didn’t let Luffy on the crew is because he already dealt with Garp while on the Roger pirates. He didn’t want more smoke than necessary

11:34 poor cat

The cat is just chilling in the back, listening to every what if growing stronger and smarter learning all anime tactics to destroy the world...