One Piece fans have been speculating that Luffy and Shanks will fight each other but Eiichiro Oda has already hinted that this clash will not happen.

It is to surpass him and create an even better pirate crew than his. Luffy and Shanks will meet again very soon, and when they do, fans will finally find out the answer to whether Luffy managed to ...

and Big Mom have been almost completely replaced with the new Yonkos being Shanks, Luffy, Blackbeard, and Buggy, it should be noted that three of them were somewhat mentored by Silvers Rayleigh ...

Ace. Much like with Shanks, Luffy agreed to meet with Ace once again at the peak of piracy, but the One Piece manga later subverted people's expectations by having the latter die during the events ...

Xebec’s crew when he was younger. In the chapter, Loki reveals that he understands Luffy’s eagerness to meet Shanks and identifies with the feeling of idolizing a pirate one met as a child.