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I've heard on many online forums that the red haired crew is the only crew
with **all Human Pirates**. What exactly is that makes the crew so
exceptionally strong and the captain - _Shanks_ \- being one of the four
emperors.  
They've been portrayed really strong, in the Marine ford arc, several admirals
also Blackbeard and his crew were afraid of fighting them, Admiral Kizaru -
_who also seems really strong_ \- was shut down just by a look from Ben
Beckman.  
What exactly is their extent of powers being _normal human being_ and have
they shown it in any episodes?


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red-haired crew, no devil fruit, still really strong?


Right now we know very little about their abilities. We do not know whether
they have any Devil Fruits. Even Shanks, who we know did not have a devil
fruit when he lost his arm, could have eaten one more recently.

That being said many strong characters don't have devil fruits. Silvers
stopped Kizaru and was shown swimming later. The majority of the Strawhats
still do not have Devil Fruits including 2 of the 3 strongest fighters.

Haki (and possibly Sea Stone) seems to allow non-Devil Fruit users to fight
evenly with Devil Fruit users. Shanks has been shown to have incredibly
powerful Conqueror's Haki to the extent that he damaged Whitebeard's ship with
no visible effort or action. It is likely several others (especially those who
halted admirals) have Haki too.

We know that Ben Beckman is the smartest person to come from the East Blue
which puts him above both Nami and Captain Kuro (man of 1000 plans). Yassop is
a powerful sniper like Ussop (who is more skilled that a platoon of WG
soldiers despite appearances). Rockstar had a bounty of 94,000,000 Beri.

We literally only know the names of 5 of Shank's crew (the above and Lucky
Roo) though we have seen several more. There is no telling what insane
abilities each member of the crew might have when we know so little. The few
we do know were able to at least intimidate marine admirals. There is more out
of universe (fan theory really) evidence that one day Sanji will confront
Kizaru and Zoro will confront Fujitora. I don't think anyone would doubt that
they are powerful crew mates and will likely never rely on devil fruit powers.


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